Ammo binge straps stores, cops
Ammunition is in short supply at gun stores across the country as buyers continue scooping up bullets faster than maxed-out manufacturers can make them.
View ArticleInternet sales tax may be coming
WASHINGTON — Attention online shoppers: The days of tax-free shopping on the Internet may soon end for many of you.
View ArticleThe Andersons makes Fortune 500 list
The Andersons has joined Fortune Magazine's annual list of the 500 biggest companies in the nation.
View ArticleLocal firms feel love for Mom
Moms are expected to be a $21 billion boon to businesses this Mother’s Day as husbands, sons, and daughters loosen their purse strings.
View ArticleHunt for metal spurs recycling
ORLANDO, Fla. — After a car’s “check engine” light winks on for the last time, there’s a place where the expired vehicle can be reduced to fist-sized chunks of unrecognizable metal in less time than it...
View ArticleFindlay dining recognized in index
FINDLAY — Findlay’s outsized restaurant scene has collected some national recognition.
View ArticlePacko's owner Bob Bennett dies at 76
Robert G. Bennett, the owner of 26 Burger King restaurants who recently acquired the local Tony Packo's restaurant chain and operations, died unexpectedly today in the Cleveland Clinic. He was 76.
View ArticlePacko's, Burger King exec dies
Robert G. Bennett, who founded one of the largest food franchise firms in the Toledo area and who rode to the rescue nearly two years ago and bought Tony Packo’s, the legendary Toledo restaurant group,...
View ArticleBurger Bar 419 adds west location
Burger Bar 419 is movin’ on up to the west side and is receiving the star treatment.
View ArticleRetailers: Modest gains in April
NEW YORK — Shoppers, encouraged by signs of an improving economy, picked up their spending in April from March despite cold weather that stopped them from buying spring clothes.
View ArticleCVS prepares site for return
Workers tear down a building at Monroe Street and Douglas Road, where a new CVS pharmacy is to be built. CVS Caremark Corp. paid $2.2 million for the property in January. CVS left the Toledo market in...
View ArticleTown tests idea of community-owned store
CAREY, Ohio — It’s been a long time since there was a clothing store in Carey.
View ArticleFirm turns sandals into sales
NAIROBI, Kenya — The colorful handmade giraffes, elephants, and warthogs made in a Nairobi workshop were once only dirty pieces of rubber cruising the Indian Ocean’s currents.
View ArticleKroger seeks bigger Marketplace slice
It’s just a few paragraphs in an 87-page financial report, but in the annual 10-K document that the Kroger Co. filed on April 2 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the fierce battle for market...
View ArticleU.S. retail sales rise in April on cars, clothing
WASHINGTON — Americans increased their spending in April at retail businesses, buying more cars and clothes while paying less for gas. The rebound from a weak March suggests consumers may help boost...
View ArticleBusiness inventories unchanged
WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses left their stockpiles unchanged in March for a second straight month while their sales fell sharply.
View Article$40M settlement OK’d over Skechers shoes
LOUISVILLE — A federal judge approved a $40 million class-action settlement Monday between Skechers USA Inc. and consumers who bought toning shoes after ads claimed that the footwear would help people...
View ArticleCenter helps area businesses
Dennis Dickey’s company began in the most unlikely of places: at parties with his friends.
View ArticleConsumer prices down 0.4% in April
WASHINGTON — A sharp fall in the cost of gas drove a measure of U.S. consumer prices down last month by the most since December 2008. Outside the drop in fuel costs, prices were largely unchanged.
View ArticleDemolition of armory for pharmacy
BOWLING GREEN — From its construction more than a century ago to its demolition, the armory on East Wooster Street served a scholastic purpose.
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