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The DBJ has assembled a database of Dayton-area manufacturers. This is a list of more than 200 companies in the Dayton region that was provided by the Dayton Tooling and Manufacturing Association for use in this database.
The collection of companies includes contact information for each, as well as a listing of each company's specialty areas. […]

Closed signs went up at California agencies Friday as a second slew of mandatory furloughs went into effect for government employees in an effort to resolve California’s $19 billion budget deficit.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to the governor’s office, ordered state workers to take three unpaid days off per month until a new budget is […]

Jeans giant Levi Strauss & Co. launched a new brand of denim today aimed at conquering the fast-growing Asian consumer market.
The new brand - called Denizen - is headquartered in Hong Kong and will be sold in China, South Korea and Singapore. The company plans to open about 50 stores featuring Denizen jeans, tops […]

Mayo Clinic is getting $43 million from a deceased benefactor, with a portion of those proceeds going toward the development of a new education conference center on Mayo’s Phoenix campus.
The late Juanita Kious Waugh of Brookston, Ind., and her parents were patients of Mayo Clinic for more than 60 years. She died the day before […]

Editor’s note: Each day, we will share several items from the People on the Move section we publish each Friday in our print edition. The full list is available only to Triangle Business Journal subscribers. If you are not a subscriber but would like earlier access to the People on the Move section, you can […]

Fans of the St. Louis Cardinals came in No. 10 in a new ranking by Forbes magazine of America’s Best Sports Fans.
The magazine touted St. Louis as a “great baseball town,” with fans in red packing the stand for every home game. The publication also said fans “had a hard time swallowing one-time legend Mark […]