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Home Depot, Best Buy have different earnings success
Home Depot Inc. and Best Buy Co. — two major retailers with stores in the Dayton, Springfield and Hamilton areas — reported widely different quarterly earnings on Tuesday. Home Depot’s first-quarter net income rose 18 percent, thanks to the ongoing housing recovery, despite a chilly and wet spring. Its quarterly ...
Mercy Health names new CEO
Cincinnati area hospital group Mercy Health Tuesday named a new president and chief executive officer.Yousuf Ahmad was appointed to the post to replace James May effective June 15. Ahmad has been chief transformation officer for Mercy Health since 2011. He is also current interim president of Mercy Health Select, the ...
Local veterans get boost on job searches
Veterans may have an advantage in landing a job in this economy, if they only knew the benefits available to them.Capt. Mike Glaser of Oxford, a 30-year Navy veteran set to retire at the end of the month, attended a Veteran’s Job Fair Tuesday at Workforce One to help him ...
Credit union unveils new video tellers
Wright-Patt Credit Union Inc. unveiled new automated teller machine technology Tuesday at a new branch office in Springboro. The machines let users video conference from inside the lobby or the drive-through with remote tellers. The tellers actually sit in offices near the Dayton Mall, said Doug Fecher, credit union president ...
New tenant announced for major Liberty Twp. retail project
Developer Steiner + Associates announced Monday a second anchor tenant for its multi-million mixed-used retail, residential and office development coming to Liberty Twp.Cobb Theatres has agreed to open a CineBistro at Liberty Center in Butler County, representatives of the developer said Monday. CineBistro is a luxury dinner-and-a-movie theatre.The movie theater ...
Consumer spending will help to offset sequester, economists say
By Jim PuzzangheraLos Angeles Times(MCT)WASHINGTON — Consumers will help keep economic growth on track this year, as new projections of their spending indicate it will offset the hit to the recovery from the federal government’s automatic budget cuts, a panel of economists said Monday.The National Association for Business Economics estimated ...
Gas, beef prices spike before holiday weekend
The prices of two staples of the Memorial Day weekend — beef and gasoline — are jumping just in time for the holiday. Wholesale prices of some grades and cuts of beef have reached all-time highs at the same time the region’s gasoline prices have spiked 20 cents a gallon ...
Nonprofit eyes downtown for headquarters move
Community First Solutions is considering moving its headquarters from its current Eaton Avenue location next to Fort Hamilton Hospital, to downtown Hamilton in the former Ringel’s Furniture building.The move will fill vacant space, supporting the city’s urban revitalization efforts in a key business district.Community First, a group of nonprofits offering ...
United starts flying Boeing 787s again
United restarts 787 flights after groundingBy Joshua FreedAP Airlines WriterUnited Airlines is again flying the 787, four months after smoldering batteries forced the plane to be grounded worldwide.A United 787 flight took off from Houston on Monday morning and landed in Chicago.United Continental Holdings Inc. has six 787s. Battery problems ...
Ohio to bolster checks on home health care workers
Ohio officials plan to bolster criminal background checks for those home health-care workers who provide direct care to the disabled and elderly.The state has received a $2.1 million federal grant to provide increased reviews for more than 100,000 workers who serve patients in Medicaid- and Medicare-funded settings.Gov. John Kasich’s administration ...
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