Corporate Cleveland articles from August 1991

Corporate Cleveland archives from August 1991

Speaking of quality. (Inside track)
August 1, 1991... Speaking of quality Speaking of quality, LTV Corp. paid president and CEO David Hoag a salary of almost 600 large last year. The generous steel company also bought for him annuities for $182,474 (including taxes). Then there is the separate...

Noodling in on the Colonel. (Sisters Chicken and Biscuits' owner Bob Wyman expands to pizza operation after competing with Kentucky Fried Chicken)
August 1, 1991... Noodling in on the Colonel Bob Wyman is tired of fighting his corporate battles on an uneven playing field. His gripe is not with the Japanese; it's with a deceased Kentuckian named Col. Sanders. Wyman is president and CEO of Wyman...

A handful of drugstores helps the medicine go down. (Revco D.S. Inc. acquires 29 Peoples Drug Stores)
August 1, 1991... A handful of drugstores helps the medicine go down At the same time it was submitting plans for reorganization under its 3-year-old Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, Revco D.S. Inc. was filling a prescription for itself: the purchase of 29...

Word war II. (newspaper leader Plain Dealer competes with local dailies in small communities)(includes related article) (company profile)
August 1, 1991... WORD WAR II The stream along the interstates and rural routes in their U-Hauls and Ryder trucks and minivans with trailers, forming a radial-driven wagon train on the highways leading out of the city. Call them refugees and they will...

Eight years in limbo. (Park Ohio Industries Inc.'s Crankshaft Division workers' eight year strike)(includes related article)
August 1, 1991... Eight years in limbo Pickets outside the Ohio Crankshaft Division of Park Ohio Industries Inc. once again have traded fire in metal drums that warmed them in the winter for cool shade that shelters them from the unyielding summer sun. ...

Tool of commerce. (Bob Wasil and wife and other dealers sue Snap-On Tools Corp. for unfair trade practice)(includes related article on franchising)
August 1, 1991... TOOL OF COMMERCE Bob and Cherie Wasil are an All-American couple. High-school sweethearts at Valley Forge High School in Parma, they married 15 years ago, when both were 20. They have the All-American family, an 11-year-old son and...

Northeast Ohio growth companies. (directory)
August 1, 1991... Northeast Ohio Growth Companies The following lists explore two worlds of companies with little in common except their impressive growth records and their private ownership. The world of larger private growth companies, defined as those...

Tending to the fast-track. (Northcoast Business Systems Inc.)
August 1, 1991... Tending to the fast-track The companies on the Corporate Cleveland growth list didn't set out to "make the list." They started because someone had a dream about a good business. They made the list because they were able to follow the dream....

Northeast Ohio growth companies. (directory)
August 1, 1991... Northeast Ohio Growth Companies As with private companies, Corporate Cleveland has divided the list of the region's fastest-growing public companies into two size categories. The smaller companies, defined as those that were public in...

Northeast Ohio's largest PR firms. (public relations firm rating) (directory)
August 1, 1991... NORTHEAST OHIO'S LARGEST PR FIRMS PR firms do public relations and ad agencies do advertising, right? Not exclusively. Distinctions get blurry because they all do some of both. Which explains the following lists. The first is of public...

Search for easy money. (real estate developers' financing problems)
August 1, 1991... Search for easy money Bankers today are doing what they should have done all along; they are observing underwriting standards that address basic economics. But the real estate industry calls it a credit crunch. And gauging the depths of...

Fire when ready; putting workers on someone's payroll is the heart of core/ring staffing. (employee leasing firms offer core/ring staffing services for non-essential employee needs)(Management)
August 1, 1991... Fire when ready It has the ring of a cruel, recessionary riddle, but its solution may become a standard for staffing: How can you get rid of non-essential workers and still have them when you need them? The answer is the Japanese concept...

Selling bad goods. (marketing of Cleveland's losing professional sports team)
August 1, 1991... Selling bad goods In the world of sports, Cleveland is a leading laboratory for marketing losers. While Cleveland historically has supported its sports franchises, none of the local teams has had a banner year at the gate lately. That's...

Wendy T. Bogniard. (Advertising/Marketing/Communications)
August 1, 1991... Wendy T. Bogniard Wendy T. Bogniard has opened Tailor-Made Marketing, a Canton marketing consulting service.

Philip A. Salem. (Advertising/Marketing/Communications)
August 1, 1991... Philip A. Salem Philip A. Salem has opened Salem Communications & Marketing Inc. production company.

William A. High. (Financial)
August 1, 1991... William A. High William A. High has been appointed president and CEO of Bank One, Dover.

Meridia Huron Hospital. (Health)
August 1, 1991... Meridia Huron Hospital Meridia Huron Hospital has named David A. Kantor president and chief operating officer. The hospital also appointed Kathleen Brazytis nurse manager for the operating room.

Eric Pohjala. (Health)
August 1, 1991... Eric Pohjala Eric Pohjala has been promoted to vice president and chief financial officer for St. Alexis Hospital Medical Center.

Thompson, Hine and Flory. (Law)
August 1, 1991... Thompson, Hine and Flory Thompson, Hine and Flory has appointed Thomas C. Stevens firmwide managing partner. The firm also named Donald H. Messinger partner-in-charge of the Cleveland office.

David Laska. (Manufacturing)
August 1, 1991... David Laska David Laska has been named CEO and chairman of the board of The Brewer-Garrett Co. The company promoted Louis G. Joseph to president.

Waxman Industries Inc. (Manufacturing)
August 1, 1991... Waxman Industries Inc. Waxman Industries Inc. has named Serge Belzile executive vice president and chief operating officer of Ideal Plumbing Group Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary.

Carey Construction Co. (Real Estate/Development)
August 1, 1991... Carey Construction Co. Carey Construction Co. has promoted founder David Friedman to chairman and Michael Mendelsohn to president.

Depke & Associates. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Depke & Associates Depke & Associates has been retained as the public relations firm for the Ohio region of Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program.

Home Centers Inc. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Home Centers Inc. Home Centers Inc., Akron, has chosen Stern Advertising Inc. to develop advertising, media, marketing and sales promotion programs for the chain's 14 stores.

Baron Advertising Inc. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Baron Advertising Inc. Baron Advertising Inc. has been named agency of record for John Morrell Foodservice, a division of Chiquita Brands International Inc.

Media II Inc. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Media II Inc. Media II Inc. has announced addition of the following clients: Transcon Inc., Mentor, a manufacturer of heavy-duty conveyors, for advertising; and Stober Antriebstechnik (Technical Drives) GmbH + Co. of Germany, for North...

Butech Inc. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Butech Inc. Butech Inc., a Salem, Ohio, producer of scrap processing equipment, has appointed Canton-based Innis-Maggiore-Olson as its advertising and public relations agency.

Olsen, Stern, Murphy & Hogan Inc. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Olsen, Stern, Murphy & Hogan Inc. Olsen, Stern, Murphy & Hogan Inc. management consulting firm has selected Wyse Advertising to provide marketing, graphic design and public relations services.

Watt, Roop & Co. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Watt, Roop & Co. Watt, Roop & Co. has been awarded the marketing communications business for Consolidated Thermoplastics Co., an Illinois producer of specialty films.

Mercury Plastics Inc. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Mercury Plastics Inc. Mercury Plastics Inc. of Middlefield, Ohio, has selected McKinney Inc. to handle its advertising and public relations needs.

University Hospitals of Cleveland. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... University Hospitals of Cleveland University Hospitals of Cleveland has entered into an agreement to serve as a tertiary referral center for The Emerald Health Network Inc. preferred provider organization.

Argenas Downey & Associates. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Argenas Downey & Associates North Canton-based Argenas Downey & Associates advertising, marketing and public relations firm has acquired Square One Creative, an advertising design firm in Canton.

Commercial and Savings Bank. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Commercial and Savings Bank Commercial and Savings Bank of Holmes County has retained Hippler Marketing Group, Massillon, as its advertising agency.

Liggett-Stashower Advertising. (New Business)
August 1, 1991... Liggett-Stashower Advertising has Liggett-Stashower Advertising has been named agency of record for the BFGoodrich Aerospace Division.