Business Stories for June 2009
Stories for Tuesday, June 30
Dayton aviation director interviewed for Florida job
Iftikhar Ahmad, who has operated Dayton’s two airports for the city since October 2006, was interviewed Tuesday, June 30, in Jacksonville, Fla., for the job of operating that city’s four-airport system.Ahmad, who has presided over a massive round of construction at Dayton International Airport and helped restore its direct Air ...
National industrial site developer eyes local GM properties
MORAINE — A developer known for turning around former industrial sites has an apparent interest in Delphi Corp. property near the University of Dayton Arena and is also eyeing General Motors Corp.’s former assembly plant off Ohio 741, Moraine’s city manager said Tuesday, June 30. But Dave Hicks, the city ...
Business would bring 400-600 jobs to area
Monroe is one of three Ohio cities in the running to land a new business, according to City Manager William Brock.An unidentified manufacturing company is looking at some industrial property at the Corridor 75 Park — developed by Vandercar Holdings Inc. — on Ohio 63 off Interstate 75 in Monroe.The ...
Stratacache remains in Dayton, moves headquarters
DAYTON — Stratacache, a provider of scalable, high-performance content delivery, network acceleration and digital media solutions, announced Monday, June 29, its recent move into a new corporate headquarters at 2 Riverplace in downtown Dayton.The new 60,000 square foot facility will house its administrative, sales, marketing, support and operations teams. Stratacache ...
Catholic Social Services announces new executive director
DAYTON — Miami Valley Catholic Social Services announced Laura Roesch as its new executive director on Monday, June 29. She is taking over for retiring Executive Director Elaine Jelly and the move will be official Aug. 1.Roesch was chosen by the Board of Trustees and administrators after a three-month national ...
AFRL expansion is base’s latest BRAC project
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Construction is getting under way for an expanded Air Force Research Laboratory sensors directorate, the latest project to accommodate hundreds of research jobs that will relocate to the base by September 2011.A ground-breaking ceremony for the $36 million project is scheduled at 10 a.m. Wednesday, ...
Local firms get state loans to buy equipment
Three local companies have been recommended by the Ohio Development Advisory Council to receive loans, the Ohio Department of Development said Monday, June 29.The firms are Printing Service Co. in Springboro, Pakmark LLC and Leis Medical Inc., both in Vandalia.Printing Service Co. has been awarded a $1.9 million 166 Direct ...
Stories for Monday, June 29
Humane Society issues new allegations against Petland
Local Petland stores are being implicated in a new round of allegations by the Humane Society of the United States against the store chain.The society says it has evidence that 15,000 puppies were shipped from “massive commercial puppy brokers” — sometimes called “puppy mills” — to more than 95 percent ...
Short-term hospital opens in Centerville
CENTERVILLE — Miami Valley Hospital South, formerly Miami Valley South Health Center, admitted its first patient on Monday, June 29, its first day as a “short-stay” hospital.The Dayton region’s most serious trauma cases will continue to go to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, but the 10-bed, $1.4 million hospital at ...
HP selects WSU professor as research award recipient
FAIRBORN — Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar at Wright State University, has been selected as one of 60 professors to receive an award as part of HP’s 2009 Innovation Research Program, Wright State University said recently.The program “is designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around ...
Denny’s on Main Street reopens
DAYTON — The Denny’s restaurant at 1136 S. Main St. reopened Monday after undergoing a week of “mouth dropping” renovations, said owner Jack Thompson. Franchisee Thompson was a previous district manager for southwest Ohio Denny’s and bought the Dayton location when he heard its lease may not be renewed. It’s ...
LexisNexis survey finds pressured law departments
Nearly every in-house law department in the U.S. has been affected by the economic downturn and has cut costs, according to a LexisNexis survey conducted by Corporate Counsel magazine, LexisNexis said today, June 29.The survey found that 98 percent of in-house law department executives agreed that the economy has affected ...
Teradata offers data disaster recovery service
MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County — Teradata Corp. has announced its “Teradata Disaster Recovery Solution” product.The product was designed for chief technology officers who don’t want to create their own disaster data recovery product, Teradata said today, June 29.“To keep costs low, Teradata customers can tailor the level of assistance needed ...
Stories for Saturday, June 27
Small business success: network, network, network
DAYTON — April Kinnett opened April’s Painting and Decorating five years ago and was frustrated when her small business wasn’t growing the way she’d hoped at first.She’d left her job with a well-known builder and was trying to make a name for herself by leaving business cards everywhere and meeting ...
Good news abounds in local businesses
Do you believe that there is anything positive happening in our business community?If the answer is no, stop reading now.I, however, do believe there are lots of great things happening in our region.Now, here’s the disclaimer: I am acutely aware that there are people and businesses suffering locally. I am ...
GAO: Foreign military sales program still flawed
In March 2008, the Department of Defense disclosed that it mistakenly transferred intercontinental ballistic missile parts to Taiwan through a U.S. program that sells pre-approved defense articles and services to foreign governments.In a new report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says the departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security still ...
Stories for Friday, June 26
Air Force’s 2010 plan would add Wright-Patterson personnel
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base stands to receive an increase of 264 civilian jobs and seven military positions for the government fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, under a proposal the Air Force made public Friday, June 26.The change is part of the Air Force’s proposed force structure realignment system-wide for ...
Ohio getting $38 million from Washington for energy projects
Ohio is receiving $38 million from Washington as the state’s next chunk of economic-stimulus money intended for projects to improve energy efficiency, develop alternate energy sources and create or preserve jobs, officials said Friday, June 26.It is part of $96 million that Ohio is to receive by Sept. 30, 2010, ...
Dayton airport to start terminal lobby improvements
DAYTON — Dayton International Airport is getting ready to expand its food and beverage concessions and relocate the information desk in the lobby of the airport’s terminal building.Airport managers and city officials have scheduled a ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday, June 29, in the terminal lobby to mark the start ...
Dayton focus of New York Times recession story
The New York Times has made the Dayton region the focus of a story on the challenges facing teenagers and twenty-somethings who are seeking to enter the job market. The story notes that more than half of the area’s manufacturing jobs — 38,000 of 79,000 — have disappeared this decade. ...
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