Business Stories for August 2010
Stories for Tuesday, August 31
WPAFB foresees no change in workload after Iraq troop withdrawal
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Base officials expect Wright-Patterson’s contribution of Air Force specialists, medical evacuation teams and military cargo flights to continue without letup, even as the U.S. missions in Iraq and Afghanistan evolve.President Obama addressed the nation Tuesday night, Aug. 31, to mark the end of combat operations ...
78 employers get aid to pay for insurance
SPRINGFIELD — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday, Aug. 31, announced 78 Ohio employers were accepted into the first round of a program meant to bridge the gap until provisions of recent federal healthcare reforms go into effect.The Early Retiree Reinsurance Program provides $5 billion nationally in ...
Stories for Sunday, August 29
Grads will carry on nursing school’s tradition, values
Dala DeWitt was decorating the first-year-student bulletin board at the Springfield Regional School of Nursing when a staff member pointed out that this would be the last time DeWitt would be decorating the board.The thought brought tears to DeWitt’s eyes. “We’ve been experiencing many ‘lasts’ lately,” the director of the ...
Stories for Friday, August 27
Teradata stock rises on Hurd speculation
DAYTON — Shares of Teradata Corp. rose 3.4 percent Friday following website speculation that Mark Hurd, the former head of Hewlett-Packard Co., would return to Teradata. Shares of Teradata (NYSE: TDC) closed Friday, Aug. 28, at $32.46, up $1.07. Trading volume was 2.5 million shares, compared with the average 1.8 ...
$30M in stimulus money targets area broadband service
WAPAKONETA — Com Net Inc. hopes to begin construction early in 2011 on a federally funded project to extend broadband service to rural and underserved communities in 28 western Ohio counties.The new fiber network is to be operating by July 2013, three years from when Com Net was designated to ...
Stories for Saturday, August 14
Organizations join forces for fundraiser
The Springfield Rotary Club and Leadership Clark County will team up to present the inaugural Clark County Amazing Race on Sept. 25.The event will challenge participants with 15 tasks throughout the county.Admission for each team is $600 and incudes a shirt, light breakfast, lunch and dinner.To register, call Mark Stephenson ...
Business owner finds new, profitable use for machinery
Eight years ago, Larry Schneider accepted a friend’s invitation to move from the scrap metal business into the promotional items production business, and he’s glad he did.“I didn’t see much of a future in where I was and he came up with this idea, so we decided to try it,” ...
Stories for Tuesday, August 3
List of Clark County Vendor Licenses
Vendors licenses allow businesses to make taxable sales at a given location; businesses must receive a license if they are opening up shop or moving. Below are the new or renamed businesses whose owners sought licenses in Clark County from May 1 to June 25Tammy R. Qualls LLC, dba Marlan ...
Internships can give job-seekers the inside track
It’s an age-old scenario: an employer needs entry-level staff and starts the hiring process. When candidates walk in for interviews, what makes one stand out? Why choose her over him? In a sea of resumes that all start to look the same, what jumps off the page, getting that certain ...
Business School with a Biblical Bent
Some years back, Cedarville University marketing professor Dr. Jeff Fawcett was shopping for a new truck. Fawcett told the salesman, “Give me the biggest thing you’ve got.”Rather than pushing a pricey dually quad cab, the salesman sized up his eager customer’s actual needs and closed the deal with a much ...
Urbana University Launches a Pathway to Entrepreneurship
It takes more than labor, land and capital to create a thriving economy. Just ask the former Soviet Union.No matter how smart the men on their commissary boards were, the communist system forgot the role of the entrepreneur. After all, it is the army of entrepreneurs, in tune with the ...
Shaping Tomorrow’s Work Force
It’s 8:15 a.m. on a summer Wednesday.William Fralick, president of National Security Bank, sits in a classroom-cum-conference room at the Clark Early Learning Center, at a table with the district personnel and community business leaders who constitute the Springfield City Schools Business Advisory Council.He’s telling the story of a young ...
Clark State tailors programs for business
Many people try to avoid problems but Duane Hodge of Clark State Community College seeks them out.“Usually what I ask when I’m on the phone with the CEO or the general manager (of a business) is what’s keeping you up at night?” the program manager for Clark State’s corporate and ...
Chick-fil-A founder says recipe for success a godsend
Last May, Cedarville University awarded its medal of honor to Dan Cathy, president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A Inc. Speaking at the school’s commencement ceremony, Cathy encouraged graduates to give biblical principles top priority in their lives.Turns out, the man and the institution are a good fit. Chick-fil-A is ...
Cafe aims to make a difference
There’s a lot more brewing at the Un Mundo Cafe on Fountain Avenue in Springfield than just a great cup of coffee.With a desire to “share the love of God from the coffee grower to the coffee drinker and beyond,” Un Mundo operates on biblical principles to benefit local community ...
Clark County NCR ex-employee: company move to Georgia will hurt it
Just over a year ago, leaders of NCR Corp. confirmed growing fears by announcing they were moving the company’s headquarters from Dayton — its home for 125 years — to Duluth, Ga., near Atlanta. NCR completed that move last month. Only 350 or so of the 1,250 Dayton-based employees were ...
Stories for Monday, August 2
Local home care company continues acquisitions
SPRINGFIELD — AdCare Health Systems, Inc. said Monday, Aug. 2, that the long-term care, home care and management company has completed a previously announced deal to lease five privately held nursing homes in Georgia — a deal that’s expected to more than double its revenue to $61 million.The five facilities ...
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