Business Stories for March 2011
Stories for Saturday, March 5
Businessman attends meeting featuring Obama
Jim McGregor, Vice Chairman of The McGregor Metalworking Companies in Springfield, joined a group of Ohio-based entrepreneurs recently at an event featuring President Obama, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills and White House Council ...
Stories for Friday, March 4
Ohio unemployment drops to 9.4 percent
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent in January, a slight dip from the 9.5 percent revised December rate and the lowest monthly rate in nearly two years since unemployment was at 9.1 percent in February 2009. The January rate marked the 11th straight month that the rate ...
Stories for Thursday, March 3
WPAFB awards roofing contract to Florida company
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force has awarded a 3 and 1/2-year contract, worth up to $10 million, to a Florida company to install, replace or repair roofs at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. R.L. Campbell Management Services Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla., was selected from among six bidders for ...
Macy’ sales up; Bon-Ton hit hard by storms
Department-store chain Macy’s Inc. said Thursday its February sales climbed, while The Bon-Ton Stores Inc. recorded a sales decline during the month, the latter’s results weighed down by snowstorms.Cincinnati-based Macy’s said Thursday its sales grew to $1.8 billion during the four weeks ending Feb. 26, compared to $1.7 billion during ...
Stories for Wednesday, March 2
Major Wright-Patterson construction project finished three months early
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The contractors building the largest base realignment and closure (BRAC) project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base finished it three months early, clearing the way for an early Air Force move-in.Butt Construction Co. of Dayton and partner Archer Western Contractors Ltd. of the Chicago-based Walsh Group, ...
Stories for Tuesday, March 1
Alex Taylor, Doug Franklin get new leadership roles with Cox Media
Alex Taylor, vice president of Cox Media Group Ohio, on Tuesday was named executive vice president of Cox Media Group, a unit of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises. Taylor, who led the integration of the Dayton Daily News, WHIO-TV and Cox radio stations in Dayton, will succeed Doug Franklin, who has been ...
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