COMPANY THAT BOUGHT W.A. BROWN BRINGING JOBS
The Virginia company that purchased W.A. Brown Co. last month will move 40 percent of its operations to the Salisbury plant. Southern Stainless Equipment will complete the move of its walk-in cooler and freezer business to the Rowan County facility by Oct. 1, according to Jake Werner, president and chief operating officer of W.A. Brown.
W.A. BROWN PURCHASED
W.A. Brown & Son, the 100-year-old commercial cooler and freezer manufacturer, has been sold to Southern Stainless Equipment of Waynesboro, VA. Ed Brown last week sold the final controlling interest in the company that his grandfather started in 1910 as a fish and meat market.The name of the business will remain W.A. Brown & Son, and the company will stay in Salisbury, the new owners said.