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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. […]

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Gerald Pace, who has been general counsel at North Milwaukee State Bank for three years, will become the chief financial officer of Milwaukee Public Schools.
Pace previously was a public finance associate with a Milwaukee law firm and served as CFO with a large Ohio school district, the bank said Friday.
North Milwaukee State Bank president and […]

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Hawaii’s hotel occupancy rates grew 10.9 percentage points last week compared to the same week a year ago, according to an industry report out Friday.
The Hawaii Hotel Industry Snapshot, conducted by Smith Travel Research and Honolulu-based Hospitality Advisors, showed that hotel occupancy for the week ending July 10 was 79.4 percent, up from 68.5 percent […]

Rollins Inc. plans to buy New England pest control company Waltham Services Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
Atlanta-based Rollins (NYSE: ROL) said the deal will close by the end of July.
Waltham, Mass.-based Waltham Services operates in New England and New York, generating more than $17 million in annual revenue. It joins a stable of pest control […]

On a wind-beaten drilling rig a few miles off Louisiana’s coast, things are getting dicey.
"We have real rough conditions this morning," rig boss Greg Bramlett — aka Mountain Man — tells his crew during a shift change. "Seas are running eight to 10 foot swells."
With Hurricane Alex churning up the Gulf of Mexico, Bramlett […]

Smallwood Drive School may have been toppled from first place this year, but it still has the best cumulative three-year score of any elementary school.
The three-year standings are determined by averaging each school's ranks in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Smallwood was No. 1 the first two years, then slipped to No. 2, yielding an average […]

FLORISSANT — After standing vacant for a year and a half, the old Value City site on North Lindbergh Boulevard has new life.
The building at 2394 North Highway 67 — or Lindbergh — was shuttered after Value City Department Stores filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2008 and closed many of its stores […]

St. Louis — Several dozen employees of the soon-to-close President Casino rallied outside the riverboat Friday, asking for the right to new jobs at other local casinos owned by the same company.
About 220 people will be laid off when Pinnacle Entertainment closes the President next month. The company originally said there would be […]

Season tickets go on sale Friday for Sacramento’s new United Football League team.
The Sacramento Mountain Lions, which kick off their season in early September at Hornet Stadium, will begin selling tickets at noon on Friday at ufl-football.com/tickets. Season tickets start at $60 per person.
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PlaneSmart! Aviation, which manages high performance aircraft, has opened a new headquarters at Addison Airport.
The company transformed an old maintenance building into an aircraft showroom, allowing it to accommodate more planes.
“Our business has expanded during hard economic times because the market found our service to be needed and desirable” said Michael Brosler, president and CEO. […]