Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. plans to add 12,000 employees this year, half of them in the United States as the company opens between 80 and 100 new hotels in 2010.
Starwood is based in White Plains, N.Y., but is planning to relocate its headquarters to Stamford in 2012.
More than 10,000 people applied for 300 positions at the company”™s recently opened W Washington D.C.
“After a year of hunkering down and cutting costs, companies are driving their top line again,” said Frits van Paasschen, CEO of Starwood, in a prepared statement. “By definition this means getting back on the road, which not only benefits their own business, but also helps spur job creation.”
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Webster Financial Corp. is hiring 150 people to staff its Webster Bank branches and offices in Connecticut and three other states.
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The Waterbury-based company has more than 25 locations in Fairfield County, among 180 branches and offices in all. As of Sept. 2009, Webster Bank reported having 2,760 employees, down from 2,950 a year earlier.
Webster said the new hiring is part of a plan to increase lending to small- and mid-sized businesses by $400 million this year, and that it would focus on hiring those with experience in that sector.
The company is holding a job fair Feb. 3 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott in Shelton.
Stamford-based Cenveo Corp. is closing commercial printing plants in Baltimore, Charlottesville, Va., and Omaha, Neb., at a cost of nearly 300 jobs.
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The Omaha plant was originally operated by New Hampshire-based Nashua Corp., which Cenveo acquired last year.
