Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) articles from August 2000

Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) archives from August 2000

Business Incubator Opens in Ohio's Miami Valley.
August 29, 2000... Byline: Laura Bischoff Aug. 29--After years in the planning and building stages, the Miami Valley's new business incubator will open its doors Friday with five new companies and room for more. The Entrepreneurs Center, TEC, is a...

Officials at Dayton, Ohio, Business Incubator Defend Choice of Director.
August 29, 2000... Byline: Jim Bebbington Aug. 29--Members of the board overseeing Dayton's new Entrepreneurs Center said Executive Director Barbara Hayde is the appropriate leader for the new initiative despite her involvement in a Convention and Visitors...

Middletown, Ohio, Festival to Commemorate 100 Years of Steelmaking.
August 29, 2000... Byline: Neela Banerjee Aug. 29--MIDDLETOWN, Ohio--AK Steel and the city of Middletown will celebrate 100 years of steelmaking with free family entertainment this weekend. "AK Steel is a major part of the Middletown area economy,"...

Dayton, Ohio, Employers Plan to Enlist More Workers This Fall.
August 29, 2000... Byline: Anitha Reddy Aug. 29--More than a third of Dayton area employers will expand their work forces this fall, according to a new survey by Manpower Temporary Services. Continuing an upward trend that emerged a few years ago, 37...

Dayton, Ohio, Health Care Plan Gets New Name.
August 25, 2000... Aug. 25--DAYTON, Ohio--Dayton Area Health Plan and its four affiliates from Cincinnati to Columbus all will be known as CareSource, beginning next Friday. "Our purpose is to create a more cohesive identity and, at the same time, improve...

FAA Orders Checks On 1,400 General Electric Jet Engines.
August 22, 2000... Aug. 22--EVENDALE, Ohio--The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered maintenance examinations for 1,400 jet engines built by General Electric Co. for potentially hazardous cracks that have led to at least one airline accident. The...

Head of Dayton, Ohio-Area Distance Learning Firm Wants to Become a Mentor.
August 22, 2000... Aug. 22--VANDALIA, Ohio--When asked where he went to business school, Mitch Jones pulls out a heap of Bob Evans place mats with notes on the back about marketing, corporate finance and other essentials. Jones, who just sold W2Com for $31...

Minneapolis, Rolling Meadows, Ill.-Based Pepsi Bottlers to Merge.
August 22, 2000... Byline: Anitha Reddy Aug. 22--ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.--The second and third largest U.S.-based Pepsi bottlers, Whitman Corp. and PepsiAmericas, will merge later this year to form a behemoth controlling 20 percent of the domestic Pepsi...

Cincinnati Businessman Is New President of Department Store Operator.
August 22, 2000... Byline: Tim Tresslar Aug. 22--CINCINNATI--Federated Department Stores Inc. has named David L. Nichols president and chief operating officer for the division that includes Lazarus and two other department stores, Federated officials said...

FAA Tentatively Names Consultant to Dayton, Ohio, Airport Expansion.
August 18, 2000... Aug. 18--DAYTON--The Federal Aviation Administration has tentatively tapped Ricondo & Associates, the firm performing a noise study for the airport's proposed $1.3 billion expansion, to serve as the independent environmental consultant for...

Director of Springboro, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce Calls It Quits.
August 18, 2000... Aug. 18--SPRINGBORO, Ohio--Don McLaughlin, director of the Springboro Chamber of Commerce, is calling it quits after 3 years. His resignation at the chamber board of directors meeting Tuesday came as no big surprise. "He's turning 65 in...

Construction Begins on Ice Cream Shop in Dayton, Ohio, Park.
August 18, 2000... Byline: Dale Huffman Aug. 18--The picturesque and historic landscape is like a piece of art in progress. It changes on a regular basis in the famous Carillon Park just south of downtown Dayton where history reigns. Every new and...

Morain, Ohio-Based Department Store Chain Posts $2.7 Million Quarterly Loss.
August 18, 2000... Aug. 18--MORAIN, Ohio--Elder-Beerman Stores Corp. said Thursday it posted a $2.7 million loss during the second quarter despite a slight sales uptick. Excluding $2 million in restructuring costs, Elder-Beerman posted a quarterly loss of...

Last Remaining UAW Workers Lose Jobs at Dayton, Ohio, Info Tech Firm.
August 18, 2000... Aug. 18--DAYTON, Ohio--The last United Auto Workers union members at NCR Corp.--who once numbered 17,000--are losing their jobs today, said UAW Local 1616 President Gary Blanford. NCR decided to hire outside companies to handle the...

Dayton, Ohio, Youths Treated to Special Job Fair, Mock Interview.
August 18, 2000... Aug. 18--DAYTON, Ohio--A Mini Job Career Fair and Mock Interview will be held today to highlight job skills Dayton youths learned this summer at a training program. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Roth Middle School, 4535...

President of Dayton, Ohio, Performing Arts Center Society Named.
August 18, 2000... Aug. 18--DAYTON, Ohio--The question as to who will be in charge of running the $125 million Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center under construction downtown has been answered. Mark Light, president of the Victoria Theatre...

Vandalia, Ohio, Tech Whiz Kid Promoted to Executive Post at Web Mail Firm.
August 18, 2000... Aug. 18--VANDALIA, Ohio--Aaron Fessler, who started his business in his parents' barn and sold it for $40 million four years later, is being promoted to vice president of acquisitions and alliances at Mail.com Inc. "I'm pretty thrilled....

Dayton, Ohio-Based Airline Company Reaches Agreement with Union.
August 15, 2000... Byline: Lynn Hulsey Aug. 15--DAYTON, Ohio--The union representing Emery Worldwide Airlines' pilots and flight engineers has reached a tentative four-year contract with the company. Company and union officials declined to provide...

Moraine, Ohio-Based Department Store Chain to Make Focused Changes.
August 15, 2000... Byline: Tim Tresslar Aug. 15--MORAINE, Ohio--While Elder-Beerman Stores Corp.'s proposed emphasis on lower-priced merchandise and smaller stores shows promise, execution of the strategy and communication with customers remain critical to...

Kettering, Ohio-Based Computer Supply Company Grows Quickly.
August 15, 2000... Byline: Laura Bischoff Aug. 15--KETTERING, Ohio--MCSi, formerly known as Miami Computer Supply Corp., is among the fastest growing public companies in the country, according to Fortune magazine. MCSi, which distributes computer...

Kettering, Ohio, Man Helps Drivers Find Low Gas Prices in Area.
August 15, 2000... Byline: Laura Bischoff Aug. 15--KETTERING, Ohio--As Brad Proctor and his drivers delivered magazines throughout southwest Ohio each week, they started a find-the-lowest-priced-gas game. Proctor has now parlayed the game into a Web site...

Miami Valley, Ohio, Residents to See Large Increase in Cost of Natural Gas.
August 15, 2000... Byline: Jim Bohman Aug. 15--DAYTON, Ohio--Miami Valley residents who heat their homes with natural gas can expect to pay 20 to 25 percent more for that energy this winter due to a national shortage and hot summer weather in the South and...

Dayton, Ohio, Entrepreneur Wants to Usurp First Flyers' Place in Town History.
August 8, 2000... Aug. 8--DAYTON, Ohio--Cohesia Corp. founder Dan Sokol wants to give Dayton something to talk about other than Wilbur and Orville Wright. "We always point to the Wright brothers as our claim to fame," said Sokol, a Dayton native. "How long...

Moraine, Ohio-Based Department Store Chain Warns of Second-Quarter Loss.
August 6, 2000... Byline: Jim Bohman Aug. 6--MORAINE, Ohio--July was a poor sales month for many department store retailers, including Elder-Beerman Stores Corp., which warned Thursday of a mounting second-quarter loss. The locally based chain...

Beavercreek, Ohio, City Council to Ponder Effects of Wal-Mart 'Supercenter'.
August 6, 2000... Byline: Margo Rutledge Kissell Aug. 6--BEAVERCREEK, Ohio--The Beavercreek City Council will hold a public hearing Aug. 28 on a proposal to convert the Wal-Mart near the Mall at Fairfield Commons into a "supercenter" that would sell...

Major Dayton, Ohio, Health Clinic to Stay Open on Minor Scale.
August 4, 2000... Byline: Kevin Lamb Aug. 4--DAYTON, Ohio--The Dayton area's largest health clinic will stay open without interruption, but apparently on a smaller scale after three weeks of uncertainty about its future. Grandview Hospital and Medical...

Dayton, Ohio-Based Tech Firm Buys UK-Based Counterpart.
August 4, 2000... Byline: Laura Bischoff Aug. 4--DAYTON, Ohio--NCR Corp., which has been on a buying spree this year, will spend $250 million to acquire a publicly held computer services company based in the United Kingdom. It will be the largest...

Dayton, Ohio, Utility Company Picks Up Tab for Contractors' Junket to Japan.
August 4, 2000... Byline: Jim Bebbington Aug. 4--DAYTON, Ohio--Two people who accompanied two Dayton city commissioners on a Sister City trip to Japan this year had their travel costs paid by a grant from the Dayton Power and Light Co., a major city...

Dayton, Ohio, Startup Airline Plans to Lease Boeing 717 Airliners.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Aug. 3--DAYTON, Ohio--Dayton startup HeartLand Airlines Inc. has signed letters of intent to lease six Boeing 717-200 airliners and plans to build a fleet of 25 B-717s in four years, company managers said...

Dayton, Ohio-Area Mall to Close Troubled Wing.
August 3, 2000... Byline: Jim Bohman Aug. 3--TROTWOOD, Ohio--Only three shops remain open on the concourse that leads to the boarded-up J.C. Penney department store in the Salem Mall. Soon, the two-floor wing will be closed. With more than a dozen...

Kettering, Ohio, Automotive Plant Officials Investigate Employees.
August 1, 2000... Aug. 1--KETTERING, Ohio--As many as five union officials and several hourly employees and managers are being investigated by officials at Delphi Automotive Systems' Kettering plant. Delphi spokesman Jim Hagedon said "several employees"...

Dayton, Ohio, Stadium Food Staff Seeks Union Representation.
August 1, 2000... Aug. 1--The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1099 said the company that operates food concessions at Fifth Third Field is violating employees' rights to organize. Monday, union officials said they filed charges with the National...

Dayton, Ohio, Area Gets First of Several Golden Corral Restaurants.
August 1, 2000... Aug. 1--The first of several Golden Corral restaurants in the Dayton area opened Monday south of the Dayton Mall. The large dining room, featuring display cooking and buffet serving, is located at 8870 Kingsridge Drive. "We're...