Business Courier Serving Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky articles from November 1998

Business Courier Serving Cincinnati - Northern Kentucky archives from November 1998

Convergys inks huge lease; Bell spinoff signs deal at Commerce Center.
November 20, 1998... Bell spinoff signs deal at Commerce Center A local corporate heavyweight has delivered an unexpended, $91 million reaffirmation of downtown Cincinnati's resurgence. Convergys Corp., the newly minted high-tech company that is a spinoff...

Duo going for green with pub concept.(Jack Wells and Aidan Bowles of Jack Quinn's Irish Ale House)
November 20, 1998... The owners of Covington's Jack Quinn's Irish Ale House hope to take the idea national. It took only six years for Jack Wells and Aidan Bowles to strike it rich in the coal business. Now, the Florence entrepreneurs are hoping to extract...

Mercy will expand in Fairfield, Milford.(Mercy Health Partners)
November 20, 1998... Projects two more steps in suburban growth plan Mercy Health Partners will build an $8 million addition to its Fairfield hospital and has purchased a building in Milford that it plans to convert to a diagnostic and office outpost. The...

Cincinnati Time expanding: Indianapolis purchase kicks off regional plan.(Cincinnati Time Systems)
November 20, 1998... Indianapolis purchase kicks off regional plan Cincinnati Time Systems has kicked off a regional expansion plan with the purchase of Modern Time Equipment of Indianapolis. Cincinnati Time President Michael Lahm closed the deal on Oct. 12...

It's no Wonder company is a fast grower.(WonderGroup Marketing)
November 20, 1998... The WonderGroup marketing agency has landed contracts with a half-dozen clients with national reach, raising the firm's profile. The only way to cross the front office was to wade through the sea of blue and white balloons covering the...

Riverfront development group breeds success.(Downtown Cincinnati Inc.)
November 20, 1998... Possible Cincinnati plan has predecessor in Louisville A new riverfront baseball stadium with a Main Street address. Forty-plus acres of riverfront parkland. A sparkling new office project and hundreds of new housing units within walking...

Local economy won't sputter for long.(Forecast '99 Roundtable)(Panel Discussion)
November 20, 1998... Rarely have we seen an economy as strong as 1998. Employment was up, profits were up, wages were up - even job satisfaction levels were among the highest recorded. But inevitably the surge must slow. And there are clear signs that 1999...

Music superstores vie to be local players.
November 20, 1998... Independents prepare for battle of the bands National retailers have invaded the Tri-State's music landscape just in time for the holiday season, but the locals have promised a battle of the bands. "We've never failed in a single...

UDF plans launch of new product line in spring.(United Dairy Farmers)
November 20, 1998... But company doesn't plan advertising blitz The Lindner family takes a conservative approach to running United Dairy Farmers. Evidence of that can be seen in the 58-year-old company's plans to launch a new product line next spring. ...

Staton authors $600M self-storage merger.(Focus on Real Estate)(Dan Staton)
November 20, 1998... On-again, off-again deal delivers industry giant Besides a handful of multimillion-dollar deals recently closed with Fred Mayerson, one of his closest business cronies, Dan Staton has also been dabbling in the public storage business, one...

Bunnell Hill opens E-Beam plant.(Bunnell Hill Construction Inc.; E-Beam Services Inc.)
November 20, 1998... Lebanon attracts new manufacturing center For almost two years, the fact that E-Beam Services Inc. of New York was headed to Lebanon with a major new manufacturing facility, creating a chunk of new jobs, was public knowledge. What has...

Downtown nets Web company: Denver firm will open huge switching station.(Colorado-based Level 3 Communications Inc to open a branch in Cincinnati, Ohio)
November 27, 1998... A high-tech Denver company has selected Cincinnati as the newest link in an international fiber-optic network that caters to heavy corporate users of the World Wide Web. Level 3 Communications Inc. has signed an estimated $4 million,...

Chiquita's battle over EU practices may hurt retailers.(Chiquita Brands International Inc)
November 27, 1998... Prices on products imported from Europe could rise if the U.S. government carries through on its threat to impose higher duties. As Chiquita Brands International Inc. and the U.S. government accuse the European Union of illegal trade...

Tri-State's tech doldrums may be blessing; other metros face risk if economy turns south.
November 27, 1998... WASHINGTON - It didn't take long for the stock market to roar back to new highs after a volatile four months. But Wall Street hardly paints the picture of a stable economy. Almost 525,000 workers have been laid off in 1998, primarily in the...

Skyline switches agencies; chili chain chooses Flynn to handle ads.(Skyline Chili Inc; Flynn, Sabatino and Day)
November 27, 1998... Skyline Chili Inc., the Cincinnati-based restaurant chain famous for its five-way chili, has chosen Flynn Sabatino & Day as its new advertising agency after a six-way competition. "We were in transition, with new directors and a new...

European companies continue stream of moves to Cincinnati.(Ohio)
November 27, 1998... Three specialty manufacturers are opening facilities in Greater Cincinnati. The airport has been a key to the trend of European firms coming here. The Old World is making a comeback in the Tri-State. Three European specialty...

Largest ad agency Northlich posts record 1998.(Northlich Stolley LaWarre)
November 27, 1998... Major account victories lead to 20 percent revenue gain Northlich Stolley LaWarre, Cincinnati's largest advertising and public relations agency, had a record year - a reflection of the advertising industry in general. Northlich, which...

Dirigo launches push to Triple '99 revenue: software firm adds more services, markets.
November 27, 1998... Three years after founding Dirigo Inc., C. Scott Moore is introducing an aggressive business plan designed to triple revenues in 1999. Dirigo is a downtown-based enterprise network and system-management company with 11 employees and $2.5...

Young tech company focuses on the visual; Ethos creates Web site for new P&G product.(Ethos Interactive Inc; Procter and Gamble Co)
November 27, 1998... Their office sits temptingly atop one of Main Street's popular bars, but the employees of Ethos Interactive Inc. have nevertheless completed a new Web site and CD-ROM for Procter & Gamble Co. and a new software program for the business market...

A change of direction.(ready to assemble furniture shop Step by Step)
November 27, 1998... When the bankruptcy of Steinberg's pulled the plug on their careers, Steve and Jon Marshall found themselves jogging and taking long walks together, trying to put together a new direction. The brothers, who had long been buyers and...

Recent acquisition bolsters Joseph's position; scrap-metal giant buys Mexican railcar farm.(David J. Joseph Co; FerroQuadrum SA de CV)
November 27, 1998... David J. Joseph Co. is known in the TriState and throughout the world as a leading scrap-metal broker. But much of its recent growth is in the railcar leasing business. In November, David Joseph announced the acquisition of FerroQuadrum,...

Hospitals link up with enterprise systems; new installations will move data smoothly.
November 27, 1998... Hospitals that combined into multifaceted health systems a few years ago, in order to be more efficient, are now taking the necessary step of linking themselves electronically. That job is much more difficult than it sounds. "Within a...