Business Cleveland articles from December 1990

Business Cleveland archives from December 1990

Having a ball in hospitality. (Vern Fuller, general manager of Radisson Suite Hotel) (People)
December 1, 1990... Vern Fuller still remembers his first stay in a rented room. It was at the Page Hotel, rumbling distance from the railroad tracks in Dubuque, Iowa. The year was 1963 and Fuller, now general manager at the Radisson Suite Hotel Cleveland, was an...

Dan Lacey writes his own paycheck. (Lacey & Co.) (People)
December 1, 1990... When The Wall Street Journal needs information on employment issues, it calls Dan Lacey. About 500 personnel administrators pay $8 an issue for his newsletter, Workplace Trends. His one-man communications consulting firm, Lacey & Co.,...

You can take the country out of the company, but ... (R. Douglas Crown, president and CEO of Davey Tree Expert Co.) (People)
December 1, 1990... "We think of ourselves as a bunch of farmers," says R. Douglas Cowan, president and CEO of the Davey Tree Expert Co. "We're not very smart, we're not very flashy, but we work harder than everyone else." Cowan's modest appraisal of the...

What's the difference? Savings and loans are becoming like banks. But not everyone wants them to be identical.
December 1, 1990... Just as the professor in Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, tries to dress up a cockney girl and teach her how to speak like a lady, so the banks are teaching the savings and loans a few things about risk-based capital levels, commercial...

It could be worse; Cleveland bank stocks are down, but not as far as in most other regions. (Cash Drawer)
December 1, 1990... Bank stocks across the U.S. are down from year-ago levels. That trend is reflected in Cleveland's bank stocks, but the bright spot is that, on average, banks in the Midwest have fared better than in most other regions of the country, says Fred...