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Thomas Gnau is a business reporter for the Dayton Daily News and covers top companies, development, job creation, and commercial real estate.
He grew up a U.S. Navy dependent, lived in two countries and five states before his 16th birthday. He graduated from Chaminade-Julienne High School and Wright State University. A Kettering resident, he is married to a Mad River Local Schools teacher; he and his wife have two daughters.
Gnau started working at the student newspaper at Wright State where his interest in journalism grew and led him to where he is today.
An advisory committee Friday recommended for Montgomery County Commission seven projects for public funding, including helping a manufacturer move jobs from Miami County and Huber Heights to Dayton. The ED/GE (Economic Development/Government Equity) Advisory Committee recommended $500,000 to help Process Equipment Co. consolidate four locations in Miami County and Huber ...
Barco Inc. has invested about $1 million into its demonstration and training center in Xenia, which will showcase the company’s aviation-focused visual display systems and products. “It is really state-of-the-art, and it is world-class,” said Mark Saturno, Barco vice president, worldwide sales, training and simulation. “There is not a facility ...
Trustees of the Dayton-Montgomery County Port Authority voted recently to set aside $500,000 to establish a line of credit to the National Composites Center. The vote was 6-0 Friday to authorize Jerry Brunswick, executive director of the port authority, to negotiate an agreement with the Kettering non-profit that houses and ...
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is expected to be on hand as Honda announces where it will build a new Ohio plant Tuesday. The automaker is expected to finally say where in Central Ohio it will build its Acura NSX sports car in a press event Tuesday morning. The event will ...
Standard Register Co. completed its reverse stock split, and its shares are expected to be trading at new prices this morning, the company said Thursday. The Dayton-based documents- and management-services company said it has filed documents needed to effect a 1-for-5 reverse stock split for both common stock and class ...
Manufacturing must endure while new ideas must flourish, E. Gorden Gee, president of The Ohio State University, told a Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting audience Tuesday. “We are the smoke stacks of this century,” Gee told listeners at the Benjamin & Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center, referring to ...
Albert Naggar, owner of Process Equipment Co. (PECo), announced plans April 1 to transform an old McCall Street plant into the home for his four area manufacturing facilities. The move would bring an estimated 250 jobs to Dayton over five years. But Naggar said he has run into a problem. ...
With help from the Dayton Development Coalition, Ohio is making its best case as to why the Dayton-Springfield area should be designated a drone test site — with nearly 2,000 high-paying new jobs at stake, according to industry estimates. The final “volume” or submission to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Unmanned ...
Honda de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. will build a transmission plant in Celaya, Mexico, the company said Thursday. The plant will employ 1,500 workers when it reaches full production of about 700,000 transmissions a year, the company said. With an initial investment of $470 million, the transmission plant will start ...
Local law enforcement officials say measures are in place to help them track radical groups and individuals and those who attempt to purchase bomb-making materials.Federal law enforcement agencies have created bonds with local law enforcement to form Joint Terrorism Task Forces, according to Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer.The task forces ...
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