March 29, 201015 yr ^AT&T's exclusivity agreement is set to run out in 2010, provided that Apple doesn't extend it again (which I think would be a major mistake with Android phones nipping at the iPhone's heels). I'd imagine that Cincinnati Bell will be able to get iPhones after that agreement expires, since their network is compatible with AT&T's (except for 3G). In fact, many Cincinnati Bell users already have iPhones. You just have to be able to figure out how to get them to work. :wink2:
March 29, 201015 yr I'm a fan too. I've always had good phone and internet service. I bring this up because I just did an online survey and it was about CB's new Fiber-optic service. Sounds like they're planning on a broader roll-out. It was about potential packages and what I would be willing to pay. They had a phone/net/cable deal that was very attractive.
April 6, 201015 yr Click through for the list of bars that could close... Owner of troubled bar works for city By Jane Prendergast, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 6, 2010 Cincinnati City Council today started its process of deciding which bars should have their liquor licenses taken away, drawing owners to City Hall to defend their establishments. One of the owners, Francine Fortney of Sportsman's Café in East Price Hill, works full-time for the city as a litter control officer. -- Perkins Lounge, Montgomery Road and Clarion Ave., Evanston ^ GOOD. This is one seedy dump and bar, and has a high incident rate. Close this and the business district for Evanston will improve remarkably. There is a reason Xavier Univ. directs visitors around to Duck Creek and Dana rather than Montgomery.
April 7, 201015 yr Zumbiel to grow in NKY, exit Norwood By Mike Boyer, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 7, 2010 HEBRON - Zumbiel Packaging is embarking on a multimillion dollar expansion of its plant here which will complete the privately held company's six-year-old plans to relocate from Norwood. The 167-year-old paperboard packaging maker has broken ground on a 180,000 square-foot addition to its 320,000 square-foot plant in the Gateway Industrial Park, which employs about 200. It also has acquired a new 56-inch manroland Inc. press, which will be located in the addition to expand capacity.
April 18, 201015 yr This is an extremely depressing article about OUTSIDE in Over-the-Rhine's Gateway Quarter. Dream pursuit a cash nightmare Garden store closes amid economic slump By Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 17, 2010 Terry Lee always told himself he'd know when his dream was over. He vowed from the day he opened his garden store in Over-the-Rhine two years ago that he would do his best to succeed, but that he would be realistic if things didn't pan out. He'd spent years in the business world, and he knew that sometimes, no matter how hard he worked, the day might come when he would have to walk away.
April 30, 201015 yr Celeotex was located on the west side of Interstate 75 south of Lockland's downtown. Former Celotex property cleared for redevelopment By Quan Truong, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 28, 2010 LOCKLAND - Redevelopment soon may start on a 27.5-acre site here that was contaminated with asbestos. The former Celotex property at 339 Wayne Ave. recently was cleaned up with a $3 million brownfield grant. The owners were waiting on the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to issue what's called a "covenant not to sue," which essentially means the property has been cleaned up and the owners will be protected against any future legal action regarding contamination.
May 15, 201015 yr P&G bringing 650 new jobs to Cincy Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Jon Newberry Staff Reporter Procter & Gamble Co. is bringing more than 600 new jobs to its Winton Hill Business Center in Cincinnati. The company has decided to proceed with a consolidation of logistics and planning operations that are now scattered at dozens of sites across North America. The new jobs would include roughly 300 jobs currently in Ohio but outside the city limits. The logistics center would also retain about 300 existing jobs in the city, including some positions already at Winton Hill. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2010/05/10/daily61.html
May 15, 201015 yr PR nightmare just won't go away. Diaper Gripes Grow Louder for P&G http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/109552/diaper-gripes-grow-louder-for-P%26G?mod=family-home
May 16, 201015 yr P&G bringing 650 new jobs to Cincy Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Jon Newberry Staff Reporter Procter & Gamble Co. is bringing more than 600 new jobs to its Winton Hill Business Center in Cincinnati. The company has decided to proceed with a consolidation of logistics and planning operations that are now scattered at dozens of sites across North America. The new jobs would include roughly 300 jobs currently in Ohio but outside the city limits. The logistics center would also retain about 300 existing jobs in the city, including some positions already at Winton Hill. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2010/05/10/daily61.html Awesome!
May 28, 201015 yr http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100527/NEWS010701/5280336/Computer-whiz-or-crook- Amelia man: Computer whiz or crook? By Dan Horn • [email protected] • May 27, 2010 James Reno created his own website before finishing eighth grade and designed sites for friends, family and businesses before graduating high school. He founded a company in Amelia a year later, hired more than 20 people and signed contracts with businesses around the world. When he won an "employer of the year" award in 2007 at age 23, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher said Reno is "what our state needs." But federal prosecutors said Thursday that Reno is more than a computer whiz with a knack for business. They said he's also a con man and a criminal. Indictments in U.S. District Court in Chicago describe Reno and two other men as leaders of an international fraud scheme that cost victims more than $100 million. Prosecutors and FBI agents say the men used fake advertisements to trick Internet users into believing that their computers were infected with a computer virus or had other critical problems. The men then convinced the victims to buy bogus "scareware" software to fix the nonexistent problems. Ahh, entrepreneurship. :evil:
September 13, 201014 yr http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/us/12icecream.html A Cincinnati Ice Cream Maker Aims Big By BOB DRIEHAUS Published: September 11, 2010 CINCINNATI — Bud Currie wields a metal paddle to furiously transfer thick ice cream crammed with Oreo cookie bits from a two-gallon cylinder into pints that will ship to grocery stores. For eight hours a day, his handiwork is the closest thing to mass production found in a new plant here that makes Graeter’s ice cream, a fourth-generation family brand that is a regional icon with national — if risky — ambitions. Mr. Currie, Graeter’s head packer, will be busier than ever as Graeter’s, founded in 1870, increases production in the first new plant it has opened since 1934. The company hopes to use the plant to quadruple production and challenge the heavyweights Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s nationwide, an ambitious target considering its current distribution is limited to 45 ice cream parlors and pint sales at 1,500 Kroger supermarkets throughout the Midwest, Texas and Colorado. Now, it is heading to the coasts. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 28, 201014 yr Scripps Networks moving HQ to Tennessee Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. is relocating its global headquarters to Knoxville, Tenn., but vows to continue a “meaningful presence” and about 50 jobs in Cincinnati. The parent company of Food Network and HGTV, formed by the 2007 spinoff of the faster-growing cable division of the E.W. Scripps Co. (NYSE: SSP), already houses about 850 of its 2,000 employees in Knoxville. The designation of Knoxville as its corporate headquarters means the company’s annual meetings will likely be held there in the future and the company’s top executives will spend more time there "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
October 28, 201014 yr I do not believe they have 1000 employees here. Scripps Networks are now a different company from E. W. Scripps, which will still be located in the E. W. Scripps Tower downtown.
October 28, 201014 yr So in short they are moving 1000 people to knoxville...right? They aren't moving anyone down there because of this announcement.
October 29, 201014 yr So in short they are moving 1000 people to knoxville...right? They aren't moving anyone down there because of this announcement. Tax move?
October 29, 201014 yr That part of the company has always been Knoxville. This announcement seems to be a clarification of where decisions are being made.
October 29, 201014 yr ^ This. No real incentives other than Knoxville has always been the center of operations.
December 8, 201014 yr Rockfish picks Cincy for regional HQ in first big win for hub Business Courier - by Dan Monk Last Modified: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 4:20pm EST It’s the first big win for the Cincinnati’s “Consumer Marketing Hub” initiative: An Arkansas-based web design shop will establish a regional headquarters at the Hixson Building near the base of Mount Adams. Plans call for the 6-employee office of Rockfish Interactive Inc. to grow to 75 employees within three years. Already, the office is advertising for account representatives, designers, public relations employees and office managers. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
December 29, 201014 yr Rockfish picks Cincy for regional HQ in first big win for hub Business Courier - by Dan Monk Last Modified: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 4:20pm EST It’s the first big win for the Cincinnati’s “Consumer Marketing Hub” initiative: An Arkansas-based web design shop will establish a regional headquarters at the Hixson Building near the base of Mount Adams. Plans call for the 6-employee office of Rockfish Interactive Inc. to grow to 75 employees within three years. Already, the office is advertising for account representatives, designers, public relations employees and office managers. Where are these jobs being advertised? I have a very talented graphic designer friend who is currently not working in that field, or if he is, hes just freelance/underemployed. I would love to pass a job posting along!
January 7, 201114 yr Cincinnati stocks celebrated strong 2010 Business Courier - by Joe Sunderman , Sunderman Investment Research Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 2:01pm EST. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2011/01/cincinnati-stocks-celebrated-strong-2010.html Thirty of 37 (81 percent) local companies saw their shares gain ground in 2010. Additionally, nearly half of the local stocks rallied 20 percent or more.
January 11, 201114 yr Snap Fitness to open downtown Cincinnati gym Business Courier - by Tom Demeropolis , Courier Staff Reporter. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/01/10/snap-fitness-to-open-downtown.html
January 11, 201114 yr Western & Southern bringing 150 jobs to Cincinnati Business Courier Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 11:26am EST Western & Southern Financial Group is moving its Lafayette Life Insurance Co. operations to Cincinnati, a move that could bring up to 150 jobs to the city. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/01/11/western-southern-bringing-150-jobs.html
January 11, 201114 yr Nope, to Great American Tower... Cincinnati.com Article - Urban Ohio Thread "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
January 13, 201114 yr They are not hiding the fact they are working on something big. This is exciting stuff! W&S ready to make next move By Lisa Bernard-Kuhn • [email protected] • January 12, 2011 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110112/BIZ01/301120133/Can-W-S-make-next-move-
February 15, 201114 yr Delta Stays Put, Adds Jobs Delta is keeping it's 500 worker call center at it's downtown building, and adding 50 jobs. Read more: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2011/02/11/delta-stays-put-adds-jobs.html
February 15, 201114 yr Dunnhumby USA Hiring 80 In Cincinnati This Year After hiring more than 80 in Cincinnati last year, Dunnhumby plans to hire 80 more people at it's Cincinnati headquarters. Read more: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2011/02/dunnhumby-usa-hiring-80-in-cincinnati.html
February 18, 201114 yr Meanwhile another local company is hiring 2000 in another country. :( More along the lines of global
March 9, 201114 yr First Financial Bank to make downtown announcement Business Courier - Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 4:50pm EST First Financial Bancorp is expected Thursday to announce downtown Cincinnati development plans, according to a media advisory from the city of Cincinnati. Claude Davis, CEO of the downtown-based bank, will make the announcement at 10 a.m. at City Hall and will be joined by Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr., according the advisory. cont "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
March 10, 201114 yr Via Powers Agency who is at the City Hall press conference today... "Claude Davis, president and chief executive officer of First Financial Bancorp: hope to announce HQ location downtown cincy in Q2. To include retail banking center." "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
March 10, 201114 yr While I would love for the tower to be started, 14-15 floors for only 150 people... First Financial to keep headquarters in downtown Cincinnati Business Courier - by Lucy May, Courier Senior Staff Reporter - Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 11:21am EST First Financial CEO Claude Davis announced the decision at a news conference at Cincinnati City Hall with Mayor Mark Mallory and Cincinnati City Manager Milton Dohoney. The bank moved its headquarters to temporary space downtown in late 2009. It currently occupies less than 45,000 square feet and has fewer than 100 employees downtown. Davis said the bank will nearly double that space, although he wouldn’t say exactly where downtown. That announcement will come soon, he said. cont "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
March 10, 201114 yr ^All you need is an anchor tenant. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
March 11, 201114 yr ^^I'm under the impression that there's something like a 25% vacancy rate in downtown offices, which would imply that the last thing we need is a new tower.
March 11, 201114 yr Western and Southern is Adding 100 Jobs Downtown http://www.wlwt.com/money/27151007/detail.html
March 17, 201114 yr Fifth Third completes TARP exit, joining Huntington, PNC, JPMorgan Chase http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/morning_call/2011/03/fifth-third-completes-tarp-exit.html Fifth Third Bancorp has repurchased a warrant held by the U.S. Treasury Department, formally cutting its ties to the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports. The Cincinnati-based bank, Central Ohio's fourth-largest holder of deposits, originally took a $3.4 billion loan from the government through TARP. It launched a stock offering this year aimed at helping pay back the funding and has paid $280 million for the warrant, the paper reported. Fifth Third (NASDAQ:FITB) is the latest in a line of banks with major Central Ohio operations to pay back TARP funding, including Huntington Bancshares Inc. (NASDAQ:HBAN), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE:PNC). ******* Good news indeed. I actually also hadn't know that Huntington had gotten out of TARP, too. I had actually bet that Fifth Third would get out first, since it generally seems stronger overall and didn't have a millstone around its neck the way Huntington did with Sky.
April 6, 201114 yr Cincinnati Added 11,500 Jobs Last Year http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/04/06/cincinnati-added-11500-jobs-in-last.html
April 8, 201114 yr Convergys adding 180 jobs in Erlanger Business Courier Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 12:51pm EDT - Last Modified: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 2:21pm EDT Convergys Corp. (NYSE: CVG) will add 180 jobs at its Erlanger call center, including 40 with that could take a work-at-home option. The new employees will provide customer service, sales or technical support for Convergys clients in a variety of industries, according to a press release from the company. Convergys already 900 employees at the Erlanger facility. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/04/07/convergys-adding-180-jobs-in-erlanger.html
April 22, 201114 yr Ha Ha, take that again West Chester! HCI moving from West Chester to Over-the-Rhine Business Courier - by Tom Demeropolis, Courier staff reporter Date: Friday, April 22, 2011, 10:48am EDT The Human Capital Institute, a group that provides corporate training for human resources professionals and other services, is moving its Cincinnati office from West Chester to Over-the-Rhine. Angela Young, vice president of marketing for HCI, said the group has signed a five-year lease for 4,000 square feet of space in the Jupiter Building, located at 1110 Main St. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/04/22/hci-moving-from-west-chester-to.html
May 12, 201114 yr Electric SUV just first of 1,000 Written by Mike Boyer [email protected] 5:29 PM, May. 11, 2011| The all-electric Mercedes SUV motored just a few dozen feet out of its Blue Ash showroom on Wednesday. But for AMP Holdings Inc., the car's short trek drove the 4-year-old electric vehicle conversion company into international standing. AMP delivered the first of up to 1,000 electric SUV conversions, valued at $100 million over the next five years, to Northern Lights Energy of Reykjavik, Iceland. Northern Lights is attempting to convert the entire North Atlantic nation of 320,000 residents from gas to electric vehicles. The deal, announced a month ago, is believed to be the largest single order for electric SUVs in the world. It makes AMP, started by local entrepreneur Steve Burns and others, a major player in the evolving electric vehicle market. Read more at: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110511/BIZ01/105120317/Electric-SUV-just-first-1-000?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|
June 10, 201114 yr Chiquita Helped Put More Than Bananas in Pockets of Terrorists by Ramon Lewis Monday, June 6, 2011 Investors that failed to do their homework might be going bananas because of the money they have lost since late last week. Shares of Chiquita Brands International (NYSE: CQB) are being shot down again after suffering a hit Friday when a judge ruled against the company. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra on Friday rejected a request by the company to throw out claims by thousands of Colombians for damages against Chiquita for helping to fund paramilitary groups that engaged in torture and committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. The judge said the paramilitary groups targeted trade unionists and leftist activists. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/06/06/benzinga1141527.DTL#ixzz1Ot1j7824
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