Gourmet Group, LLC, will purchase Gepetto Kitchens, spend $2.3 million in Rutherford County, and create 136 jobs. These days, news of corporate expansion are normally a celebration of receipt of a government grant. Otherwise, it would be strange that the local daily was taking the governor’s word about the acquisition, rather than the company’s. Without much effort, it was discovered that, yes:
The project was made possible in part by a $270,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund.
