Published: May 03, 2008 06:12 pm         

Business Briefs

May 4, 2008

WoodBridge campus receives award

WoodBridge Health Campus received the President’s Award for excellence and first place in the company for assisted living customer service at the Trilogy Health Services Spring Meeting, which was held April 16 to 18.

The award was based on customer satisfaction results from a semi-annual survey sent to family members throughout Indiana. WoodBridge Health Campus received recognition for its customer satisfaction scores in staff attitude, quality of nursing care, food quality, activity programming and appearance/cleanliness.

WoodBridge Health Campus offers a full range of personalized senior living services including skilled nursing services, transitional care suites, residential assisted living and adult day care.



Hall-Justice attends Indiana law seminar

Susannah Hall-Justice, owner of Hall-Justice Law Firm, recently attended the two-day Indiana Trial Lawyers Association’s 20th Lifetime Achievement Seminar in Indianapolis. The seminar dealt with how to make Indiana’s Prejudgment Interest Statute work for clients, using Google Earth in accident reconstruction and deposition exhibits, and proving the uninsured motorist status of a Tortfeasor, among many other topics.



Brenda Combs is May program presenter

WEST LAFAYETTE — Brenda Combs will be the featured speaker at the May 13 Association of Women Business Owners meeting.

Motivational speaker Combs, who is a member of the Association of Women Business Owners Board of Directors and owner of Moondance Marketing, will discuss “Living Your Positive Life.”

Founded in 1982, AWBO meets at MCL Cafeteria in West Lafayette at 11:45 a.m. on the second Tuesday of every month to give women an opportunity to concentrate on the managing and planning of their businesses.

For more information, visit www.awbo.org.



Designer Joe staff attends classes

Heather Pine, an education consultant from Nioxin, presented a class on Nioxin thinning hair systems to staff members of Designer Joes Haircare and Nails, located at 3310 E. Market St.

The system is a three-step system that helps improve the appearance of thinning hair.

Staff members also attended a class in Lafayette presented by Sexy Hair on new hair cutting and styling techniques and product knowledge.



Business seminar offered in Logansport

The North Central Indiana Small Business Development Center will offer a workshop, “Launching Your Business” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 20 at the Cass County LEDF Center, located at 310 S. Pearl Street.

The workshop is $35 per business and covers all materials including a copy of the Wayfinder Business Feasibility Software.

Questions about licensing, permits, record keeping, marketing and planning will be answered. There will be time for questions and answers.

For questions or to register, visit www.conf.purdue.edu/sbdc or call 1-800-359-2968 at least 24 hours before the event.



Analysis developed to help businesses

LAFAYETTE— Tecumseh Area Partnership, Inc. has recently developed the Mature Worker Impact Analysis to help employers determine how anticipated retirement of baby boomers will affect their business over the next five to 10 years.

As baby boomers leave, there is concern as to whether there will be enough younger workers to fill the gaps in both numbers and skills. Yet, a 2007 Manpower national survey indicated that 78 percent of US employers were not worried about the impact of the aging workforce on their business.

In a similar regional survey of employers in Carroll, Cass, Fulton, and White counties, completed by Tecumseh Area Partnership, Inc. unconcerned employers totaled 72 percent.

The analysis helps an employer determine the overall demographic landscape of their organization. It also examines the areas of the company, which are vulnerable to skills and talent drain. Methods for retaining essential knowledge, skills and experience as well as meeting the multi-generational needs of recruitment, retention and training are a part of the Mature Worker Impact Analysis process.

This analysis tool has been made possible through WIRED, a federal development initiative designed to help state and local communities compete in the global economy.

For more information, contact Tecumseh Area Partnership, Inc. at 1-866-510-7732 Ext. 311 or 312.



Plans expected to bring 90 jobs

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Economic Development Corp. says a transmission components maker plans an expansion in Yorktown and a retail builder will construct a factory and distribution center in Angola. The projects are expected to add a total of 90 jobs.

Miasa Automotive will upgrade its factory near Muncie with an $8.4 million expansion that could create 55 jobs by 2012. The Spanish gearbox components maker employs 17 people in Indiana and 240 worldwide.

Allied Manufacturing Inc. will create 35 jobs by building a manufacturing and distribution center in Angola in northeast Indiana. The company will build retail structures for companies like Ritter’s Frozen Custard.