Business Cleveland articles from October 1990

Business Cleveland archives from October 1990

Russ Maier has 5,000 problem solvers. (Republic Engineered Steels Inc.) (People)
October 1, 1990... Russ Maier has 5,000 problem solvers Despite the fact that relations between management and labor in the steel industry historically have been tense, Massillon-based Republic Engineered Steel's President and CEO, Russell Maier, is actively...

The job begins at 5 p.m. (Jon Wise, president of Garland Floor Company) (People)
October 1, 1990... The job begins at 5 p.m. Jon Wise, president of Cleveland-based Garland Floor Co., is one executive who realizes the importance of providing his customers with a quality job. "In our industry, there are a lot of contractors with a shady...

At-home publishing kindles Hearth. (Ann Vorhees-Billingsley; Hearth Publications) (People)
October 1, 1990... At-Home Publishing Kindles Hearth Ann Vorhees Billingsley has been a career woman in New York City, but when she finally settled down, she traded the Big Apple for a home in Shaker Heights and kindled her hearth. Vorhees Billingsley is...

Charlie Clark's new frontier. (Yankee Ingenuity Programs) (People)
October 1, 1990... Charlie Clark's new frontier It used to be that life took a little Yankee ingenuity. Today the world runs too smoothly, laments Charlie Clark of Yankee Ingenuity Programs, reminding us of how settlers used to use their brain power to fix old...

Scrooges? Nerds? Not these two. (Janet Marcus; Albert Sproul; Pyramid Accounting Partners) (People)
October 1, 1990... Scrooges? Nerds? Not these two! Janet Marcus and Albert Sproul detest the accountant stereotype. Whether CPAs are percieved as Scrooges in green eyeshades, crunching numbers by candlelight, or, in Sproul's terms, "stick-in-the-mud nerds,"...

Staying on track. (proposed bullet train, Ohio)
October 1, 1990... Staying on track When it comes to traveling between Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, the easiest way to get there from here on the ground is by driving on I-71 - except when orange barrels get in the way. The interstates' popularity...

It starts with school. (education; Ohio)
October 1, 1990... It starts with school Ohio is often called a microcosm of the United States, and not surprisingly the critical problems facing the state's next governor are the same ones plaguing his peers across the country. The litany is familiar -...

Think it out. (corporate law)
October 1, 1990... Think it out To this aging takeover defense lawyer, who is now beginning his last decade in the practice of law, and who therefore feels free to express his purely personal opinions, it is obvious that the main corporate law issue for the...

Cooperate or else. (corporate involvement in education)
October 1, 1990... Cooperate or else The decade of the 1980s was a period of desperate struggle and refreshing progress for Ohio. Maintaining the momentum that has been building in recent year will require close cooperation between business and government. ...

No easy changes. (Ohio's economy)
October 1, 1990... No easy changes During the 1980s, the state of Ohio made significant progress in addressing what has been called a "fundamental restructuring of the economy." These changes were not easy to make in any part of this country, but they were...

Let's root out the problems. (Ohio; homelessness; hunger; illiteracy; health care; environment)
October 1, 1990... Let's root out the problems Ohio's most pressing problems are the problems of our greater society: homelessness, hunger, school dropouts, illiteracy, the lack of job skills, unemployment, crime, infant moratility, the affordability of health...

Protect our heritage. (Ohio; industrial competitiveness)
October 1, 1990... Protect our heritage During the past decade there has been a dramatic change in Ohio's industrial work force. In the early 1980s, Ohio lost a significant number of manufacturing jobs, primarily due to severe competitive pressure from...

Capture the future. (Ohio; economic development)
October 1, 1990... Capture the future The next administration in Ohio has an opportunity to advance Ohio. Nestle is an international company with experiences in many states and nations. Through our worldwide experience, we have gleaned some common measures...

We must be prepared. (Ohio; economic development)
October 1, 1990... We must be prepared The new governor would do well to continue support of Ohio's innovative Thomas Edison Program that has been recognized both nationally and internationally as a model for state-supported technology development. The...

The force is with us. (Ohio; economic development)
October 1, 1990... The force is with us Among the many forces which affect development in Greater Cleveland, the economic development policy of the state of Ohio is one that bears a particularly significant impact. During the years of Cleveland's recovery, a...

Boss? I need time off. (family health leave)
October 1, 1990... Boss? I need time off Despite President Bush's veto in June, the controversy over family health leave is far from finished. In fact, industry observers predict that this will be one of the biggest benefit issues of the '90s. Many...

All in the family. (First Federal Savings Bank)
October 1, 1990... All in the family Back in the gun-slinging years of the late '70s and early '80s, The First Federal Savings Bank swam against the tide of speculation running rampant in the savings and loan industry. Others laughed at First Federal's...

Historic investments. (Cleveland, Ohio; municipal historic preservation)
October 1, 1990... Historic investments Compared with other American cities, says Thomas Yablonsky, director of downtown development for the Greater Cleveland Growth Assn., Cleveland stands somewhere in the middle when it comes to historic preservation. ...

Another downtown building boom. (Cleveland, Ohio)
October 1, 1990... Another downtown building boom All winter, theatergoers at Playhouse Square saw an ungainly scaffold hanging off the side of the Keith Building. From day to day, little seemed to be going on. Workers were replacing parts of the...

Coming north quietly, but surely: Cincinnati banks eye the Cleveland market cautiously.
October 1, 1990... Coming north quietly, but surely Cincinnati banks seem to be coming into the Cleveland market on a slow-moving passenger train, chugging along by setting themselves up for just a few deposits here and there, rather than entering the market at...

From stress-ee to de-stresser. (Sylvia Horten, founder of Charting Your Own Course)
October 1, 1990... From stress-ee to de-stresser If someone had told Sylvia Horton ten years ago that she'd be a guest on the "Phil Donohue Show," the only way she'd have envisioned herself there would have been as a victim. After all, she was virtually the...

Out of the frying pan, into the frying pan? (James K. DeVoe, president of the Jayme Organization advertising agency)
October 1, 1990... Out of the frying pan, into the frying pan? The dream of most middle-aged advertising agency executives is to get out of the rat race and land a nice, quiet job in the marketing department of a good company. That is, unless they own a...

Stephen L. Paquette. (Position Reports)
October 1, 1990... Stephen L. Paquette Stephen L. Paquette has been named president of the board of the Stark Development Board Inc., Canton.

Raymond E. Heh. (Position Reports)
October 1, 1990... Raymond E. Heh Raymond E. Heh has been elected president and chief operating officer at Bank One, Akron.

Craig R. Smith. (Position Reports)
October 1, 1990... Craig R. Smith Craig R. Smith has been elected interim chairman and chief executive officer and James D. Rode chief operating officer at Ameritrust Corp, Cleveland. Rode also has been named chairman and chief executive officer of...

John N. Lauer. (Position Reports)
October 1, 1990... John N. Lauer John N. Lauer has been elected president of The BFGoodrich Co., Akron. James M. Griffith has joined the company as vice president, public affairs.