Corporate Cleveland articles from May 1991

Corporate Cleveland archives from May 1991

Leaving Cleveland on a wing and a prayer. (passenger traffic at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport)
May 1, 1991... While a low-flying economy continues to give the airline industry a bad case of red ink, traffic is brisk as ever at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. At last count (which admittedly seems to mean little from one week to the next), 14...

Taking office work out of the office. (Office Services, Westlake, Ohio)
May 1, 1991... Elsie Bognar and others like her have proven you can take secretaries out of the office. And there are plenty of reasons to do so. Bognar is president of 12-year-old Office Services, a secretarial service that does all the usual...

American parts for American cars. (A&D International; automobile parts exporter)
May 1, 1991... While Americans lean toward BMWs, Jaguars, and Rolls Royces, more and more status-conscious Europeans flock to purchase American cars, especially older models. Keeping these cars on the road falls into the realm of A&D International. ...

Belgium's seal of approval. (international business lawyer Jon E. Denney)
May 1, 1991... If you're receiving a pension from the Belgian government and you live in Ohio, you'd better get to know Jon E. Denney very well, if you want to keep getting your money. Denney, a partner and international business lawyer with the...

Her work echoes in the schoolyard. (environmental services firm, Ross Consolidated Corp. president Maureen Cromling)
May 1, 1991... When Maureen Cromling attended Eaton School in Grafton during her growing-up years, she never dreamed that one day her sixth-grade classroom would be her executive suite. Her company leases the school, which serves as headquarters for Ross...

Buttonholed credit bill: the powerful Ohio banking industry lobby has helped keep a lid on a bill to cap charge card interest rates.
May 1, 1991... If you've ever been in the awful position of having a credit card rejected in a restaurant or department store because you've reached your credit limit, then you know just how much the interest can add up on those unpaid balances. ...

The price of AIDS: businesses will pay with lives and insurance premiums.
May 1, 1991... Nearly one of every 300 Greater Clevelanders is estimated to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Nearly one of every 100 men in the area, between the ages of 25 and 44, are said to be carriers. But when the Centers for...

Solon's day of reckoning: northeast Ohio's hottest headquarters town braces for life after growth. (includes related article) (Cover Story)
May 1, 1991... People in Solon talk about the same kind of things you hear about in any small city. Weather's a big topic. And depending on the season, so are the Indians, Browns, and Cavaliers. But in early March everyone became a business analyst...

Possibly polymers: faced with unemployment, this entrepreneur made his technical knowledge work for him. (silicone rubber reclamation company, TRC Industries, owner Bruce Bowers)
May 1, 1991... When Bruce Bowers spent 15 years going to night school for a marketing degree from the University of Akron, he never dreamed that he would also be getting a technical education in polymers. In fact, he never had a professor tell him that a...

Dan Moore's Cleveland agenda: can a man who muffles oil pans rescue Cleveland's waterfront?
May 1, 1991... When Conrail gave Dan Tyler Moore III the exclusive rights to develop a marina on 35 acres of Whiskey Island last year, the railroad company transformed an obscure local manufacturer of plastic and metal auto parts into a major player in...

Top 50 public companies in NE Ohio.
May 1, 1991... Corporate Cleveland's list of Top Public Companies comes in two parts this year, the Top 50 for Northeast Ohio and the Top 50 for all of Ohio. Almost half (23 firms) of the Northeast companies also appear on the state-wide list, indicating a...

In Tokyo, they call it a "ginko"; but in Cleveland, Sanwa is a little-known foreign bank.
May 1, 1991... When Makoto Oshima worked at The Sanwa Bank Ltd. in Tokyo, he kept close watch over 160 companies that might corridors. Other times he'd just stay up until 2 a.m. reading corporate annual reports. And if a company depended heavily on...

Slow summer may turn hot in the fall. (Cleveland, Ohio, economic conditions)
May 1, 1991... Relief for the economy, while not right around the corner, may not be too far away. The current recession could end early in September, according to Duff & Phelps Inc., a financial consulting firm. The recession has been proceeding at...