Business Cleveland articles from September 1990

Business Cleveland archives from September 1990

Busboy to boss. (Bill Hulett, president of Stouffer Hotel Co.) (People)
September 1, 1990... Busboy to boss When Bill Hulett took his first job as a hotel busboy at age 15, he never thought he'd someday be president of a world-class hotel company. But by the time he'd progressed to being a doorman, he had a glimmer of hope. "I...

Teaching the "Aloha Spirit." (Doris Tomusko, vice president of human resources for Concord Co.) (People)
September 1, 1990... Teaching the "Aloha Spirit" Keeping employees happy in the tropical paradise of Hawaii may seem a lot easier than keeping employees content in Cleveland, but according to Doris Tomusko, Concord Hotels Inc.'s vice president of human...

Sensing a market niche. (Barry French, founder and chief executive officer of Impulse Sports Training Systems Inc.) (People)
September 1, 1990... Sensing a Market Niche Barry French wants you to give his products a good swift kick. As a matter of fact, the harder you kick them, the better off you are. French, who puts his age at "somewhere between adolescence and mid-life crisis,"...

Talk about being under the gun. (Mordechai Pelleg, founder and president of Medical Business Systems) (People)
September 1, 1990... Talk about being under the gun For Mordechai (Mordy) Pelleg, founder and president of Mayfield Village-based Medical Business Systems (MBS), the key to success is very simple: Back up your product and support the people who purchase it. ...

Matching office space needs isn't easy. (Steven W. Joseph, executive vice president of Victor S. Voinovich Co.) (People)
September 1, 1990... Matching office space needs isn't easy There's more to being a real estate broker than meets the eye. Just ask Steven W. Joseph. He started his career as a real estate attorney with Burke, Haber & Berick Co., watched a real estate...

Prescott flies high in travel bookings. (Prescott Travel Inc.) (Frontline report)
September 1, 1990... Prescott flies high in travel bookings Cleveland-based Prescott Travel has been ranked 34th in a listing of the nation's largest travel agencies. The 1990 Business Travel Survey, published by Business Travel News, ranked the more than...

Don't move, renovate. (Bank One, Akron N.A. provides home purchase and improvement loans for low-income neighborhoods) (Frontline report)
September 1, 1990... Don't move, renovate The quality of the Akron housing community is getting a boost. Bank One, Akron has created a group of home purchase and home improvement loans aimed at meeting the credit needs of some low- to medium-income neighborhoods...

Nestle's off the menu. (Nestle Enterprises Inc. sells off Stouffer Restaurant Co.) (Frontline report)
September 1, 1990... Nestle's off the menu Nestle Enterprises Inc. put its Pepper Pike-based Stouffer Restaurant Co. up for sale in late July to focus on Stouffer's more lucrative hotel and frozen food divisions. The sale by the Swiss parent company also cancels...

More than a pat on the back. (Ohio gives matching grants to steel industry in state) (Downstate)
September 1, 1990... More than a pat on the back Throughout the 1980s, Ohio's steel industry staggered under the weight of ferocious foreign competition and its own outmoded production plants. As a result, according to statistics compiled by the Ohio Bureau of...

Lawyers for sale. (law firms find need to market themselves more aggressively) (includes table of largest Northeast Ohio law firms)
September 1, 1990... Lawyers for sale Repeat after me: "Marketing is not a dirty word." Repeat it three times if you are a professional, i.e., a lawyer. Because, whether you know it or not, you've been doing marketing of some type every day. While...

Swimming with the whales. (LDI Corp.) (company profile)
September 1, 1990... Swimming with the whales If the key players in the $20-billion computer leasing industry were NBA All-Star, then LDI Corp. might be Larry Bird going up against Michael Jordan or Dominique Wilkins or other flashy high-flyers. LDI's style -...

The man who would be senator. (Joel Hyatt, founder of Hyatt Legal Services)
September 1, 1990... The man who would be senator In four years he expects to have built a nationwide prepaid legal services business - a legal Blue Cross - and to either have taken it public or sold it to a major financial services corporation. He himself...

Close to the vest. (AExcel Corp.) (company profile)
September 1, 1990... Close to the vest Aexcel Corp. competes head-to-head in a shrinking industry, but that doesn't stop the upstart paint, coatings, and adhesives company from expanding. In fact, for the second consecutive year, Aexcel earned a spot on the...

Sow biz helps lease office space. (real estate developers use "marketing suites" to lure tenants) (Properties)
September 1, 1990... Show biz helps lease office space A group of prospective tenants of the new BankOne building are led into a darkened room. After finding their seats they are shown a slide presentation on BankOne and other buildings by Larry Lance, vice...

You can call me....? (advertising agency Fahlgren Martin goes through several name changes) (Smoke signals) (company profile)
September 1, 1990... You can call me....? Once upon a time there was an advertising agency named Fahlgren & Ferris. Then it changed its name - at least in Ohio - to Fahlgren & Swink. Earlier this year Fahlgren & Swink's Cleveland office merged with...

Richard A. Goldbach. (Position reports)
September 1, 1990... Richard A. Goldbach and James L. Blaszak Richard A. Goldbach and James L. Blaszak have incorporated a new mortgage company, First Ohio Mortgage Corp., to be located in Independence.

Gregory L. Tunis. (Position reports)
September 1, 1990... Gregory L. Tunis Gregory L. Tunis has been named executive vice president and head of the retail banking group at BancOhio National Bank, Cleveland.

Lubrizol Corp. (Position reports)
September 1, 1990... Lubrizol Corp. Lubrizol Corp. has elected Ray A. Andreas vice president and chief financial officer and John R. Ahern controller.

GenCorp. (Position reports)
September 1, 1990... GenCorp Fairlawn-based GenCorp has elected D. Michael Steuert vice president and chief financial officer.

John N. Lauer. (Position reports)
September 1, 1990... John N. Lauer John N. Lauer has been elected chief operating officer of BFGoodrich, Akron.

SIFCO Industries Inc. (Position reports)
September 1, 1990... Systems Inc. Systems Inc. has named Todd Swanson vice president of administration, and Casey Kroll vice president of marketing.

The Chilcote Co. (Position reports)
September 1, 1990... The Chilcote Co. The Chilcote Co., Cleveland, has elected David L. Hein president.