Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) articles from December 2001

Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) archives from December 2001

HeartLand Express Airline Dies, but Dream Lives On.
December 2, 2001... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Dec. 2--If ever an airline was star-crossed, it was startup HeartLand LLC. While other airline startups were getting capitalized in the booming 1990s, HeartLand's inexperienced founders were struggling to...

Frisch's Restaurants to Build Third Golden Corral in Dayton, Ohio.
December 2, 2001... Byline: Jim Bohman Dec. 2--BUTLER TWP., Ohio--Frisch's Restaurants Inc. has begun construction of its third Golden Corral buffet restaurant in the Dayton market and is looking for more spots. The newest location, one of 41 being...

Bankruptcy Case Drags On for West Carrollton, Ohio-Based Furniture Chain.
December 2, 2001... Byline: Jason Roberson Dec. 2--Nearly two years after Roberds Inc. ceased operations, the former furniture, electronics and appliance retailer remains mired in bankruptcy court while an unknown number of its customers await resolution of...

Managers Tell Workers to Improve Operations at Moraine, Ohio, Systems Plants.
December 4, 2001... Byline: Christopher Montgomery Dec. 4--MORAINE, Ohio--Managers of Delphi Automotive System Corp.'s Harrison Thermal Systems plants in Moraine are telling employees that unless productivity and profitability improve, future operations are...

Fairborn, Ohio, Man Begins to Publish Magazine about Pulp Books.
December 4, 2001... Byline: Tim Tresslar Dec. 4--FAIRBORN, Ohio--Tim Cottrill didn't set out to become an expert on pulp magazines or to write a 540-page price guide about the extinct publishing genre famous for such fictional heroes as the Shadow, Tarzan and...

Mead Merger Brings 'Scale, Strategic Focus,' Westvaco CEO Asserts.
December 4, 2001... Byline: Tim Tresslar Dec. 4--DAYTON--While Mead Corp.'s proposed merger with Stamford, Conn.-based Westvaco Corp. won't close until January, Westvaco's chief executive said Monday the deal will steel both companies against the economic...

Delphi Automotive Sells Composite Spring Business to Dayton, Ohio-Based Firm.
December 5, 2001... Byline: Christopher Montgomery Dec. 5--KETTERING, Ohio--Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. announced on Tuesday the sale of its Liteflex composite spring business to Liteflex LLC, a Dayton-based company formed as part of the transaction. The...

Restructuring leads to Demise of Dayton, Ohio-Based Airline.
December 6, 2001... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Dec. 6--DAYTON, Ohio--Emery Worldwide Airlines will fly no more. The Dayton-based airline's demise is part of a major corporate restructuring its parent company, Palo Alto, Calif.-based CNF Inc., announced...

Gordonsville, Va.-Based Firm Buys Greenville, Ohio, Plastics Maker.
December 6, 2001... Byline: Jason Roberson Dec. 6--GREENVILLE, Ohio--Klockner Pentaplast of America, Inc., based in Gordonsville, Va., has purchased Greenville-based Witt Plastics Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Both companies said none of Witt's 76...

Delphi Automotive Systems Plans to Slice at Least 1,400 More Jobs.
December 11, 2001... Byline: Christopher Montgomery Dec. 11--DAYTON, Ohio--Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. said Monday it will eliminate an additional 1,400 to 1,800 jobs soon because it expects auto sales to slow down next year. Troy, Mich.-based Delphi...

Fake Goods Seized at Warren County, Ohio, Flea Market.
December 11, 2001... Byline: Lawrence Budd Dec. 11--LEBANON, Ohio--Warren County sheriff's deputies arrested five people and seized more than $50,000 in what they described as counterfeit watches, sunglasses and clothing at a Turtlecreek Twp. flea market. ...

More U.S. Consumers Buy Extended Warranties for Products.
December 11, 2001... Byline: Jason Roberson Dec. 11--Sales of extended warranties for consumer electronics are rising, even though sales of VCRs, stereos, TVs and other electronic goods are down from this time last year. The so-called attachment rate, or...

U.S. Consumers Avoiding Shopping Malls This Holiday Season.
December 12, 2001... Byline: Jason Roberson Dec. 12--Holiday shopping remained steady last week, but shoppers are steering away from the nation's malls, according to national statistics. The International Council of Shopping Centers said on Tuesday that...

Dayton, Ohio, Companies Enter Business Plans in Competition.
December 13, 2001... Byline: Tim Tresslar Dec. 13--With decades of industrial design and other critical experience under their belts, the small staff of Fivepoint LLC understood their products and services. They believed in their concept. Outsiders have...

Several Ohio Economic Experts Predict Longer U.S. Recession.
December 13, 2001... Byline: Jim Bohman Dec. 13--A short and shallow recession, forecast by some economists, "is not in the cards" next year, according to James Investment Research in its Economic Outlook for 2002. Recovery will take longer than now hoped,...

Ohio's Office Building Owners Prepare for Big Insurance Premium Leaps.
December 13, 2001... Byline: Jim Bohman Dec. 13--DAYTON, Ohio--Office building owners who expected higher insurance premiums next year now are bracing for 50 to 100 percent hikes following the September terrorist attacks. Apartment complex operators, too,...

New Chairman to Lead Miami Valley Economic Development Coalition in Ohio.
December 14, 2001... Byline: Jim Bohman Dec. 14--DAYTON, Ohio--As it installed a chairman for 2002, the Miami Valley Economic Development Coalition announced on Thursday a new executive post that will help transform local science and technology into jobs. ...

Sale of Dayton, Ohio-Based Metal-Coil Equipment Maker Is Complete.
December 14, 2001... Byline: Christopher Montgomery Dec. 14--DAYTON, Ohio--Genesis Worldwide Inc., a Dayton-based maker of metal coil processing equipment, announced Thursday its $20.5 million sale to two investment firms is complete, and that the new company,...

Ohio Air Force Base Center Specializes in Laser Eye Correction.
December 16, 2001... Byline: Timothy R. Gaffney Dec. 16--WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio--With practiced care, Air Force Col. Leo D. Hurley aimed his laser straight into the eyeball of his target. Hurley fired. For 30 or 40 seconds, the laser flashed...

Xenia, Ohio, Native Discusses Her Plans as Saturn President.
December 18, 2001... Byline: Christopher Montgomery Dec. 18--SPRING HILL, Tenn.--Saturn Corp., the iconoclastic car company launched by General Motors Corp. in 1990 to fight imports, is on the rebound, with a $1.5 billion infusion from GM and a batch of new...

Dayton, Ohio-Based Chemical Storage Maker's Earnings Grow This Year.
December 23, 2001... Byline: Christopher Montgomery Dec. 23--Robbins & Myers Inc. is different than many other Dayton-based manufacturers in one very big way: It's still making money. The company is coming off a year when its earnings grew 8.7 percent,...

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, Jim Dillon Column.
December 23, 2001... Byline: Jim Dillon Dec. 23--Where does huffy go from here? That is the central question facing Huffy Corp. as the Miamisburg-based bicycle/sporting goods/service provider struggles to attain consistent profitability. Huffy has...

Las Vegas Auction House Says Wright Brothers' Checks in Wrong Hands.
December 24, 2001... Byline: Benjamin Kline Dec. 24--For most people, canceled checks are a relic of a non-electronic culture, useless papers bundled with rotting rubber bands because IRS auditors might might one day knock. For collectors, they could be...

Ohio Official Wants Employee Pensions to Get Leadership Role in Enron Lawsuit.
December 25, 2001... Byline: William Hershey Dec. 25--COLUMBUS, Ohio--Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery has asked a federal court in Texas to assign two Ohio public employee pension funds a leadership role in seeking to recover hundreds of millions of...

Whipped-Topping Maker Peak Plans to Avoid Long-Term Shutdown of Ohio Plant.
December 27, 2001... Byline: Ben Sutherly Dec. 27--TROY, Ohio--As Peak Foods LLC cuts back production to compensate for a typical post-holiday slump in demand for whipped topping, its sole product, the company's general manager said Wednesday the company...

Dayton, Ohio-Area Shoppers Tackle Post-Christmas Sales.
December 27, 2001... Byline: Jason Roberson Dec. 27--Miami Valley shoppers woke up early and rushed to stores Wednesday as retailers reduced prices even more to move holiday merchandise. "We've already made one trip to the car," said Lisa Izor of...

Like Rest of Country, Dayton, Ohio, Hospital Struggles to Keep Drugs in Stock.
December 30, 2001... Byline: Kevin Lamb Dec. 30--Hospital shortages of prescription drugs have become so commonplace that local physicians and pharmacists no longer consider them merely short-term problems. Grandview Hospital has 22 drugs in limited supply...