Corporate Cleveland articles from September 1991

Corporate Cleveland archives from September 1991

New-generation banking. (Enterprise Bank, a full-service community bank, begins operations April 29)
September 1, 1991... While Ameritrust Co. and National City Bank were duking it out on East Ninth Stree this spring, a banking bantamweight threw its first punches in Solon. Enterprise Bank, billing itself as a full-service community bank, opened the door to...

In the pink with Polish cuisine. (Mary Poldruhi, president of Parma Pierogies)
September 1, 1991... Mary Poldruhi has a vision of cars lined up at the drivethrough, waiting to pick up orders of pierogi, kielbasa and other Polish delights. It may sound crazy, but Poldruhi, president of seven-month-old Parma Pierogies, 5580 Ridge Road in...

9 for the '90s. (men and women who will likely wield the greatest influence in Cleveland, Ohio) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1991... Thank you, Mayor. Thanks for the opportunity to build Gateway, the Inner Harbor, the Flats, Playhouse Square and the almost-impossible-to-describe private development downtown. While the death kneel is sounded for many American cities,...

Forgotten but not gone. (American National Bank's recovery after almost having gone bankrupt in 1980s) (company profile)
September 1, 1991... Four p.m and a disgusted Irwin Siegal picks up the telephone, sick to death of being the kind of small-business customer that big banks hate or don't understand or both. His successful business isn't pretty: Commercial Scrap Consultants Inc....

A million points of light. (use of fiber optics technology by telephone companies)
September 1, 1991... Since the mid-1980's, eager telephone-company moles have buried 14,000 miles of glass fiber beneath northern Ohio. The hair-like fibers, which are to copper wire what the space shuttle is to the Wright brothers' first flight, represent the...

Exclusively for business. (Galbreath Co.'s Bank One Center building)
September 1, 1991... Look for a spectacular new building in downtown Cleveland to open its doors to the public this month. Bank One Center, the latest addition to the skyline, comes from The Galbreath Company and offers 564,000 square feet of first-class office...

An investment to live by; apartments don't sound thrilling, but they offer a smooth ride. (investing in apartments)
September 1, 1991... If you don't have a stomach for the roller coaster, don't ride in real estate. In the last 10 years, the industry's commercial sector has boomed and busted. Retail has boomed and busted. Even the markets for industrial property and...

Shop price, shop quality: area hospitals will be among the first anywhere to face free-market scrutiny. (Cleveland, Ohio's Health Quality Choice Program)
September 1, 1991... After first making stops in Poland, the former East Germany, and even the Soviet Union, the slow-moving train of free-market reform has finally steamed into Cleveland's hospitals. Next month the revolution begins in earnest as corporate...

Moss & Maddox Marketing Group Inc. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... Moss & Maddox Marketing Group Inc. has appointed Stuart E. Moss chairman and CEO and Robert M. Maddox II president and Chief Operations Officer. James M. Biggar, chairman and CEO of newly formed Glencairn Corp., former chairman of Nestle...

Steven J. Kurdziel. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... Steven J. Kurdziel has joined Heidrick and Struggles as a partner in the Cleveland office of the executive search firm.

Joseph D. Rice. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... Joseph D. Rice and Elliott P. Geller have been named partners at Robert E. Hughes & Associates Inc., a public and government relations consulting firm.

Medical Consultants Imaging Co. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... Medical Consultants Imaging Co. has named Ian C.P. Woodburn president and chief operating officer, Walter Hagen vice chairman and CEO.

Van Dorn Co. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... Van Dorn Co., producer of containers and machinery, has appointed Thomas Miklich executive vice president and chief financial officer. The company's Davies Can Division also promoted John B. Nicholson to vice president of sales and marketing.

John R. Maimone. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... John R. Maimone has been named CEO and chairman-designate of Premix Inc. The company also promoted Chief Operating Officer Wilbur Shenk III to president.

Shon M. Pirollo. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... Shon M. Pirollo has been appointed president of SRF Associates Inc., a division of public accounting firm Winer & Bevilacqua Inc.

William R. Holland. (Corporate Ladder)
September 1, 1991... Willard R. Holland has been appointed president, Chief Operating Officer and a board member for Ohio Edison Co. The company also named Justin F. Rogers Jr. chairman and CEO and Douglas W. Tschappat vice chairman.