Corporate Cleveland articles from March 1992

Corporate Cleveland archives from March 1992

Hanging on to old habits. (Ohio small businesses' preference for low-tech manaufacturing)
March 1, 1992... When Forbes magazine ranked America's best 200 small companies late last year, it named only eight businesses from the Buckeye State, including only one from Northeast Ohio. But the region's poor showing on the list probably does not...

Tough times for the law business. (includes related article) (Industry Overview)
March 1, 1992... It took 350 years and the combined clout of the Supreme Court, penny-pinching clients, and a bone-crushing recession, but Shakespeare's call to arms has finally been answered: The nation's law firms are being murdered by a downturn so severe...

Daffy like a fox. (Dan Gray, a business wizard known as Daffy Dan)
March 1, 1992... Behind the wheel of his Buick station wagon, with golden retriever perpetually in tow, Dan Gray seems like the guy next door-the one making the neighbors a bit nervous. Longhaired and denim-clad but otherwise relatively regular, Gray...

Laughing all the way from the bank. (bankers' advice to small businesses during a recession)
March 1, 1992... If you're a small-business person and the economic news is recession, you're likely to find yourself in more frequent and deeper discussion with your banker. Maybe you're looking for additional credit, or perhaps the bank wants to feel the...

Casino redux. (Alan Spitzer's plans for a resort and casino in Lorain)(includes related article on Alex Olejko)
March 1, 1992... I remember thinking that if dreams were made of helium, Alan Spitzer would need to be moored like a float in a parade-tethered by wires to several men paid to trail him wherever he went, tugging and pulling him back to Earth whenever he...

Family ties. (sibling-run enterprises)
March 1, 1992... The story goes that my great-grandfather Max, a proud and stubborn Alsatian, had a bitter argument with his younger brother about how to run the family business. Unable to settle the feud, each brother opened his own 5 & 10-cent store within...

Set sail for Erie County: make the Sandusky area your port of opportunity for business growth.
March 1, 1992... A new spirit is being built in Sandusky, Ohio. On a street lined with several timeworn buildings, Lake Erie Welding and Fabricating Inc. is constructing a new manufacturing facility to handle its growing needs and future growth. With each...

Flotation, flotation, flotation. (Ohio's real estate market) (Industry Overview)
March 1, 1992... It's been a tough year for commercial real estate brokers. And, while the future is beginning to look better, the shakeout from the recession continues. Some experts are predicting vacancy rates in Class A space will dip below 10 percent...

Shuffling technology into a stacked deck. (heat-treating innovations)
March 1, 1992... Dick Hendershot is tired of playing Old Maid. That's the card game, for those of you who slept through your childhood, in which the loser is the last person holding the Old Maid card. And it's a familiar position at any heat-treating...

Paying the pumper. (Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards)
March 1, 1992... Big brother is watching the car you drive. And he wants you to trade in that large gas guzzler for a cramped piece of plastic that goes from zero to 60 in five minutes and sips gasoline like a camel drinks water. Maybe you already drive...

The mental-health benefit. (health care coverage)
March 1, 1992... Several of Jim's assistants were considering quitting. Jim's behavior had become intolerable. Usually a fair and concerned team leader, he had become unpredictably critical and harsh. Jim wondered, too, why he behaved this way, and he...