Taylor will close Ohio site, lay off 63 workers
Taylor Communications has notified state government that it will lay off more than 60 Ohio employees.
Taylor, which has about 600 employees in Dayton, will permanently close a Columbus facility, the company said in a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice) letter to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
There are 63 full-time employees impacted by this action, Geiger added.
The Columbus office, at 3950 Business Park Drive, operates as Vectra Visual printers. The WARN notice makes no mention of any Taylor employees in Dayton.
North Mankato, Minn.-based Taylor bought what was then a bankrupt Dayton business communications company, Standard Register, for $307 million in 2015. Taylor changed the company’s name a year later, and in 2017, the company moved most of its Dayton employees to a downtown location, at 111 W. First St.
‘American Factory’ to premiere in Dayton
Area residents will have a chance to see “American Factory” before Netflix subscribers.
The documentary about Moraine manufacturer Fuyao Glass America — created by Yellow Springs filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert and their colleagues — will be shown at the Victoria Theater Aug. 19 in a ticketed event, a Netflix spokeswoman said.
That will be two days before Netflix is set to stream the documentary.
The event will be free, Netflix said.
Invitations to the local showcase will be sent soon, and a website for obtaining tickets will be announced, the spokeswoman said. As of midday Wednesday, Netflix could not say how many tickets will be set aside for the public or give an address for the website.
“They’re very excited to bring the film home for a true Dayton premiere,” the Netflix spokeswoman said of Bognar and Reichert. “We’re really excited to be a part of that.”
The film offers a glimpse into the creation of the Chinese-owned automotive glass-factory that was built in the same factory that once housed a General Motors assembly operation off West Stroop Road.
“American Factory” has seen wide acclaim at film festivals nationally, well before Higher Ground Productions — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company in partnership with Netflix — acquired the film in April. Higher Ground has said the documentary will be included in the company’s inaugural slate of upcoming film projects.
The film won the Sundance Film Festival’s “Directing Award: U.S. Documentary” last year.
Building donated to college
Antioch College received a donated building in downtown Yellow Springs.
Susanne Hashim, vice president for advancement, said the Yellow Springs college did not have more information to share at this time about the donation, but should have more information at a later day.
The building at 403 Xenia Ave., across the street from the Mills Park Hotel, was transferred on July 5, according to Greene County property records.
The private liberal arts college reopened in 2011 after closing for three years, and has since been working on becoming financially sustainable and boosting enrollment, which has remained below 200 students.
Flyby BBQ food truck relaunches
A Beavercreek restaurant that got its start as a food truck is dusting off and re-launching its mobile unit, starting this week.
The independent and locally owned Flyby BBQ restaurant that opened in February at the Mall at Fairfield Commons has lined up a handful of gigs this week and is “looking for more,” according to Flyby’s founder, David Butcher.
Butcher is a Yellow Springs High School graduate who graduated in December 2018 from Ohio State University.
Flyby is a fast-casual barbecue restaurant with a buildyour-own-meal ordering system similar to Chipotle or Subway. It serves barbecue sandwiches, bowls and platters featuring hickory-smoked meats, a variety of toppings, and regional American barbecue sauces, as well as comfortfood-style side dishes, craft beer and sodas.
Ross Dress for Less opens
Ross Dress for Less is now open in Beavercreek.
The off-price retailer opened its doors Saturday, employees of the store told the Dayton Daily News.
Ross is similar in style to TJ Maxx or Marshalls, selling discounted name brand clothing, accessories, shoes and bath and body products.
The Beavercreek store opened in 2720 Towne Drive at the Shoppes of Beavercreek. A second store is expected to open in the former hh gregg space at the Dayton Mall in the third quarter of this year.
The chain has rapidly expanded in recent years, recently hiking its projections to open about 2,400 locations nationwide, up from its prior target of 2,000. The closest location before the Beavercreek store opened was in Indianapolis.
Wright-Patt school gets new leader
The U.S. Air Force’s School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has a new commander.
Col. Theresa Goodman assumed command of the school during a July 19 ceremony in the school’s atrium, according to the base. Goodman comes to Wright-Patt from the 18th Medical Group at Kadena Air Base in Japan, where she took command in 2017.
Goodman takes over the school after its previous commander, Col. Alden Hilton, retired in June after 29 years of service. He was the deputy commander of the school for about a year before he took the reins as commander in summer of 2016, according to the base.
Previously, she was a medical inspector with Headquarters Air Force Inspection Agency at Kirtland Air Force Base, commander of the 20th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, and chief of aerospace medicine in the 55th Medical Group at Offutt Air Force Base, according to Wright-Patt.
Fussnecker closes, building sold
The building that once housed longtime Fussnecker Sweeper Sales & Services sold.
City officials confirmed earlier this month that the Fussnecker store at 111 W. Dorothy Lane closed. Attempts to reach the company and its leadership were not returned. Phone lines for the store were disconnected.
The building that was once owned by Anthony Fussnecker, followed by Martin Fussnecker was sold to Real Solutions Property Management LLC in November 2017.
Real Solutions sold the building Monday to Miami Valley Commercial Group in Kettering for $300,000, according to Montgomery County records.
Beavercreek firm wins $47M contract
A Beavercreek company has a won a $47 million contract work in defensive cyber operations, the Department of Defense has announced.
Frontier Technology Inc. — which counts an office on Col. Glenn Highway as its headquarters — has won a $47.3 million contract for supporting enterprise ground system and defensive cyber operations, the DoD said Monday.
This contract award provides for cross-domain solutions, design, integration and rapid delivery team services. Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colo.; Beverly, Mass.; and Los Angeles, Calif., and is expected to be completed by July 19, 2024.
Fiscal 2019 research and development funds in the amount of $1,876,545 are being obligated at the time of award, the government said.
GNC to close up to 900 stores
GNC plans to close up to 900 stores as part of cost-saving goals for 2019 and 2020.
The company will close 700 to 900 stores, mostly at malls, according to Retail Dive. Most of the closures will be at malls, said CEO Ken Marindale in a conference call Monday. The Mall at Fairfield Commons, Dayton Mall and Upper Valley Mall all have GNC stores.
GNC locations in strip malls, where about 61% of the footprint is located, are “relatively stable from a comparable sales perspective,” Martindale said, according to Retail Dive.
The supplements retailer’s revenue dropped 8% to $476.1 million in the second quarter, in large part because of samestore sales declines of 4.6% according to a GNC statement.
GNC also has stores at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Cloud Park Plaza on Brandt Pike, Northpark Plaza in Huber Heights, Dayton Town & Country Shopping Center in Kettering, Sugarcreek Plaza in Sugarcreek Twp., Cross Pointe Center in Centerville, Austin Landing in Miami Twp., Troy Towne Center in Troy, Miami Valley Centre in Piqua, Towne Mall Shoppes in Middletown and Meadow Park Plaza in Wilmington.
Kroger hires branding firm
Kroger, the largest Dayton-area grocery chain, hired DDB New York to build its Restock Kroger image.
Restock Kroger is the Cincinnati-based grocery chain’s yearslong initiative to “redefine the food and grocery customer experience in America.”
DDB is Kroger’s first-ever creative agency of record, according to a statement.
Typically agency of records can be responsible for any mix of email marketing, social media, content marketing, digital advertising and e-commerce, as well as television, newspaper and radio advertisements.
“This partnership will solidify Kroger’s position as a food authority, further proving to all of America that Kroger stands for fresh and quality,” said Mike Donnelly, Kroger’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
New Butler County hospital planned
A new $23 million rehabilitation hospital will be built in Butler County.
Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals, a Dallas-based chain, said in an announcement that it will build a hospital at the northeast corner of Interstate 75 and Bethany Road in Liberty Twp.
Everest stated it will have about $8 million in annual payroll.
This will be Everest’s sixth physical rehabilitation hospital. The hospital will open in an area already crowded with health care providers looking to have a presence in the growing region with a well-insured population. It will take about 14 months to build the 40,000-square-foot hospital, which will employ about 120.
The 36-bed hospital, with room to add 18 more bedrooms, will have inpatient and outpatient therapy gyms, an outdoor mobility courtyard, aqua therapy, several family gathering areas, in-house dialysis and an in-house pharmacy.
The hospital is for patients recovering from injuries and illness or living with disabilities and chronic medical conditions, Everest stated.