On Friday, the same day Johnson & Johnson committed to spend $55 billion domestically over the next four years, company officials were in Eastern North Carolina to mark the first major investment toward this goal.
Executives mingled with North Carolina leaders in the city of Wilson to ceremonially break ground on Johnson & Johnson’s promised $2 billion drug ingredients factory, about 45 miles east of Raleigh. The drug substance plant expects to create at least 420 jobs at a median salary above $110,000.
Speakers at Friday’s ceremony included Gov. Josh Stein, Democratic U.S. Rep. Don Davis, and Jay Timmons, the longtime president of the National Association of Manufacturers…