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The on Monday approved an eight-year, 55 percentg job creation tax creditfor ’s Barbaso l LLC. The credit is valued at $97,615 and is aimed at the constructionn of a new manufacturing facilityin Ashland. which acquired the century-old shavintg cream brand from Pfizer in 2001 and also makex the PureSilk women’s shavinb cream, employs 25 at its Dublin The company expects to creatw 30 jobs at the new plant, where it’s required to keep operations for 16 Atef Halaka, Perio’s vice presidentg of manufacturing, said the company is movinv from subcontracting its production to bringing operations under its own roof.
“We’res seeing expansion in our market shareand we’ve also maxef out our supply partner, so we needed to expand our capacity,” he Perio, Halaka said, expects to finalize a deal to buy the land for the facilituy from the city of Ashland within the next two weeks. Constructiohn should begin no later thanJuly 1, with an estimate completion in January 2010. The site initiallyy will cover 80,000 square feet, but Halaka said the compan will have room for expansiohto 150,000 square feet within the next five