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Incentives Grant Frustrates Competitor
RALEIGH — The owners of Pate Dawson Company, a Goldsboro food distributor that has been doing business in North Carolina for 120 years, is wondering how the state can justify giving the company’s main competitor, Texas-based Sysco Inc., $10 million to build a distribution center in Johnston County. “I’ve been hearing rumors for a long time that Sysco has been thinking of building a new distribution center either in the eastern part of the state or Virginia, but only last August did I learn they may be trying to get money from the state,” said Pate Dawson’s president. He questions claims of net job creation from the incentives.