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By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER The economy is heating up. Incomes will rise and more jobs will be added this year, an economist told a Findlay audience Thursday. “This year is starting strong and will continue to get stronger as we go through the rest of the year,” Bob...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Findlay ranked first for business growth among 575 small cities nationwide in 2014, according to Site Selection magazine. It won the distinction by luring McLane Co.’s $119 million distribution center, now under construction; Cooper Tire &...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER An already-huge CSX railyard near North Baltimore just got bigger, and it grew faster than CSX leaders anticipated. Seven years earlier than expected, CSX last week completed a $43 million expansion, Duke Acors, railyard hub manager, told Findlay Rotary...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER The secret to the success of one of Findlay’s fastest-growing companies is not being lean and mean, but kinder and gentler. IntelliHartx (pronounced Intelli-hearts), at 129 E. Crawford St., takes a different approach to helping hospitals and health...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Employment grew or remained stable in 2014 among Findlay and Hancock County’s major industries, and more of the same is forecast in 2015. Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies, an auto parts maker, is poised to hire 17 to 42 additional workers this...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Downtown Findlay is getting a major upgrade and the local economy a boost thanks to Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s $80 million addition of two office buildings and two parking garages. Marathon Petroleum is building a $22 million, six-story,...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Findlay-Hancock County Economic Development is firing on all cylinders: attraction, expansion and retention of companies and jobs. It scored a coup last year when McLane Co. announced it would bring a $119 million distribution center and 425 good-paying...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER A $119 million McLane Co. grocery distribution center is under construction. A $40 million Cooper Tire global technology center was recently completed. Soon, a new $8 million building will house the manufacturing, warehousing and administration for...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER The nationwide refinery workers’ strike came to downtown Findlay and Marathon Petroleum Corp. on Tuesday as 150 protesters marched and shouted for safer working conditions. Over 70 striking workers from Marathon’s refinery in Catlettsburg,...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Selling more high-profit tires in the United States and paying less for raw materials, Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. pumped up its operating profit by 14 percent last quarter to $54 million. It added a $56 million profit from the sale of its interest in a...