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Neenah-based Bemis Co. Inc. has been offered $3 million in tax credits from the state that could result in plant expansions and the creation of up to 500 jobs over the next few years, company executives said Friday.
The tax credits underline Bemis' commitment to the state a month after the publicly traded maker of flexible packaging moved its headquarters to Neenah from Minneapolis. They also signal the state's intention to use such tax credits increasingly in the future.
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TOLEDO, Ohio - Pushed to the bottom of the toy box by video games and other high-tech gadgets, Etch A Sketch is suddenly drawing lots of attention, thanks to a gaffe that has shaken up the race for the White House.
Ohio Art Co., maker of the classic baby boomer toy, is sending a big box of Etch A Sketches to the presidential campaigns to say thanks for the publicity and a boost in sales.
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COMMERCIAL/UCC - CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS: The trial court did not err in holding that the plaintiffs could seek contribution from one of five co-makers of a promissory note who had allegedly not paid his proportionate share of the loan indebtedness: under R.C. 1303.14(B) and the common law, a co-maker of a note that provides for joint and several liability may seek contribution in the form of proportionate reimbursement from another co-maker for money paid towards the note. The trial court erred in awarding the plaintiffs a proportionate share of the money paid on a note by a corporation in which they were shareholders: a corporation is considered a separate “person” under the law, and a co-maker shareholder may not personally recover in contribution payments made on a loan by the corpo...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky's age-old bourbon sector welcomed a big-city newcomer to an exclusive club on Thursday, adding Lexington's first new distillery in more than a century to the popular Kentucky Bourbon Trail of such venerable names as Jim Beam and Wild Turkey. Alltech's Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co., maker of Town Branch bourbon, will join the Bourbon Trail with its planned opening of a new $6 million distillery next month. The company, which also produces beer and malt whiskey, has been making its bourbon for several years across the street at another facility.
Town Branch is made in small batches and its sales amount to drops in the bucket compared to Jim Beam. But Alltech's new limestone distillery close to downtown Lexington will take its place alongside the ...
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Making super-strong windshield frames for military vehicles in Iraq is just a small part of what Phillip Poole's Calvert County- based company, American Metal Fabricators, does. And Poole quickly acknowledges that the frames, which are designed to hold bulletproof glass, are just a tiny part of the overall war effort.
But for Poole and his 100 employees, producing the frames means a lot.
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Sahlen's Packing Co. ? maker of WNY grilling favorite Sahlen's hot dogs ? is taking its show on the road, offering its product to grocery shoppers in Charlotte, N.C.
Food Lion stores throughout Charlotte will start selling Sahlen's hot dogs sometime in mid-July or shortly thereafter. The move is part of the company's effort to start reaching more cities across the country. "Widespread availability" is expected by summer 2013, according to a news release.
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TOLEDO, Ohio - Pushed to the bottom of the toy box by video games and other high-tech gadgets, Etch A Sketch is suddenly drawing lots of attention, thanks to a gaffe that has shaken up the race for the White House.
Ohio Art Co., maker of the classic baby boomer toy, is sending a big box of Etch A Sketches to the presidential campaigns to say thanks for the publicity and a boost in sales.
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