The Blade (Toledo, OH) articles from December 2001

The Blade (Toledo, OH) archives from December 2001

Toledo, Ohio-Based Dana Corp.'s Profitable Credit Unit Attracts Interest.
December 16, 2001... Byline: Julie M. McKinnon Dec. 16--Dana Commercial Credit Corp. financed the $1 million lighting retrofit at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island four years ago. It has financed dozens of hotels in four countries for France's Accor...

U.S. Retailers Tweak Web Sites to Please Consumers.
December 23, 2001... Dec. 23--Last holiday season, Kmart's BlueLight.com offered roughly 200,000 items and free shipping to try to lure online shoppers away from a horde of other web sites. This year, after an industry shakeout, the number of dot-coms has...

Dana Corp. Loses Grand Cherokee Axle Work.
December 24, 2001... Byline: Julie M. McKinnon Dec. 24--After six decades of supplying Jeeps with axles, Toledo's Dana Corp. has lost the design and development contract for the high-end Grand Cherokee's revamp and also could lose the 2005 sports utility...

The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, Small Business Column.
December 24, 2001... Byline: Homer Brickey Dec. 24--Over the years, the Reinbolt family has learned the value of diversification. The late Charles Reinbolt branched out from his grocery business in 1948 to start a tarpaulin-repair service. Nearly 40 years...

CVS Corp. Pulls Out of Toledo, Ohio, Market; Outlets Closed in Michigan.
December 26, 2001... Dec. 26--The local drug-store war has claimed its first mass casualty with CVS Corp. announcing yesterday that it is pulling out of the Toledo market and closing all outlets in the metropolitan area and four other stores in northwest Ohio and...

OPINION: Internet Shines Light onto Shadowy Resumes.
December 26, 2001... Byline: Homer Brickey Dec. 26--This has been a bad year for resume cheaters. First was the revelation that legendary chief executive "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap left entire jobs out of his resume -- it seems there was this nastiness about his...

Chairman of Toledo, Ohio, Newspaper Retires; Career Spanned 64 Years.
December 26, 2001... Byline: Gary T. Pakulski Dec. 26--Publishing heir William Block arrived in depression-ravaged Toledo in the late 1930s to learn the family's newspaper trade at The Blade, which his father has owned since 1926. But he was unprepared for the...

Security Personnel Try to Clear Bottles from Browns' Stadium in Cleveland.
December 26, 2001... Byline: Gary T. Pakulski Dec. 26--Referees, players, and other fans aren't the only ones who took a hit when plastic beer bottles and other objects began pouring out of the stands at Cleveland Browns Stadium last week. Toledo's...

Retailers in Toledo, Ohio, Area Tighten Return, Exchange Policies.
December 26, 2001... Byline: Jane Schmucker Dec. 26--If Santa left something under the tree that you want to return or exchange, it's more important than ever this year to act promptly and take a receipt. Stores such as women's clothiers Talbots and Ann...

Toledo, Ohio-Area Farmers Raise Money to Buy Texas Sugar Beet Processor.
December 28, 2001... Byline: Jane Schmucker Dec. 28--A group of 900 farmers wanting to operate Michigan Sugar Co. -- which processes sugar beets grown in northwest Ohio -- say they have $45 million in financing and capital for the purchase that is to close...

Rite Aid to Buy Some CVS Sites in Toledo, Ohio.
December 28, 2001... Byline: Julie M. McKinnon Dec. 28--A rival is buying four of the Toledo area's soon-to-be-closed CVS Corp. drugstores as the two competitors swap buildings and customer files throughout Ohio, Michigan, and elsewhere for an undisclosed...

New Executive Takes Top Job with Toledo, Ohio-Based Owens Corning.
December 30, 2001... Byline: Gary T. Pakulski Dec. 30--As a boy, David T. Brown dreamed of becoming an engineer. But that evaporated in a classroom at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., as he struggled to complete a drawing assignment that tested...