32 jobs lost
By SHAWN BERRY
berry.shawn@dailygleaner.com
Published Wednesday June 6th, 2007
Appeared on page a1
Thirty-two people working at the MarketBridge tele-sales centre are losing their jobs.
Company officials handed out layoff notices to all of the employees Monday.
Half of them have been terminated immediately.
"As of the end of July, there will be none," said Bashar Mardam-Bey, vicepresident of operations for the company, from Bethesda, Md.
He said the company made the decision to close because it wasn't prepared to make a five-year lease commitment when its current lease expires at the end of July.
MarketBridge opened the tele-sales centre in November 2006.
The company builds and manages high-growth sales and marketing for Fortune 500 companies, focusing on IT, life sciences and telecommunications.
Business New Brunswick spokeswoman Sarah Ketcheson said the province didn't have any outstanding loans to the company.
"We didn't provide them with assistance.
There is no exposure for Business New Brunswick," she said.