BUSINESS
October 27, 2007
Alliances Gardiners Furniture will provide furniture and accessories for the ABC-TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition as it replaces the home of a Port Deposit family. Awards Jeff Aleshire, a Susquehanna Bank executive vice president, was named Consultant of the Year by the Home Builders Association of Maryland Land Development Council. Debt Shield, the Columbia-based debt settlement firm, has been awarded a Torch Award for marketplace ethics by the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland.
BUSINESS
February 28, 2007
Advertising Vertis Communications announced the appointment of David Glogoff as vice president and deputy general counsel for the Baltimore-based communications and marketing firm. Banking and finance SunTrust Bank, Maryland appointed Jeffrey F. Weidley, in the business banking division, and Michael E. Major in the retail division, as vice presidents for the regional bank. Provident Bank selected Shelley J. Lombardo, corporate marketing division, and Phillip Mosco, small business division, as vice presidents.
NEWS
February 13, 1999
An article in yesterday's editions of The Sun made it unclear which office of George Soros' Open Society Institute issued a grant to Civil Justice Inc., a project to mentor lawyers in small firms. The institute's U.S. headquarters in New York issued the grant, not the Baltimore office.Pub Date: 2/13/99
BUSINESS
January 4, 1999
New positionsBethlehem Steel appoints Wirick at Sparrows PointBethlehem Steel Corp. appointed David P. Wirick to be manager of quality, technology and logistics for its Sparrows Point division.He had been manager of the rolling mills at the company's Pennsylvania Steel Technologies in the Steelton, Pa., plant.An engineering graduate of Grove City College, he also holds a master's degree in business from the University of Pittsburgh and is active in several professional organizations, including the American Iron & Steel Engineers and the American Society of Metals.
BUSINESS
November 29, 1999
New positionsNeuristics names Cooper chief operating officerNeuristics Corp. named Michael B. Cooper chief operating officer with the mission of leading the 6-year-old Hunt Valley-based predictive modeling firm from its development phase to the offering of its products and services to a wider range of clientele.He formerly was president of Pitney Bowes Software Systems and is an MBA graduate of the University of Toronto.ProfessionalCover is planner, manager of McCrone Annapolis officeMcCrone Inc. named Steven R. Cover director of planning and branch manager for the Annapolis headquarters office of the engineering consulting firm.
BUSINESS
By June Arney | February 26, 1999
As the operator of four McDonald's restaurants in Howard County, Cathy Bell spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve service and boost business.She was doing just that one day last summer when the lyrics of Donna Summer's 1983 hit, "She Works Hard for the Money," ran through her head. Why not use it for a McDonald's commercial? she asked herself.The 41-year-old Columbia woman's brainstorm has turned into a new $1 million-plus McDonald's television and radio advertising campaign that's being launched today in 10 U.S. markets, including Baltimore, Boston, New York, Hartford, Conn.
BUSINESS
By M. William Salganik | April 6, 1999
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Franklin Square Hospital announced an agreement yesterday under which the hospital will pay $325,000 to African-Americans who were denied nursing and file clerk jobs from 1993 to 1997.Judy Navarro, an investigator in the Baltimore office of the EEOC, said this was the largest such agreement reached by the office in several years. As part of the agreement, she said, Franklin Square will not only compensate people denied jobs but will be "monitoring its applicant flow with the goal of expanding on diversity."
BUSINESS
By Kristine Henry | July 24, 1999
A year and a half after demoting its Baltimore office from a co-headquarters to a division, Doner advertising agency said yesterday that the head of its office here is being transferred to the home office in Detroit.Tony Everett will move to Detroit near the end of the year but will remain president of Doner Direct, the firm's locally based direct-advertising arm. The office, which has 140 employees, handles direct-response television and print ads -- those that prompt consumers to call a toll-free number or log onto a Web site to find out more about a product -- and direct mail.
BUSINESS
By Sean Somerville | April 1, 1999
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, the Washington-based law firm that is hiring Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, yesterday recruited two Piper & Marbury partners to its Baltimore office.The addition of Mark Pollak and Ted Millspaugh from Piper & Marbury puts the number of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Baltimore lawyers at 12. It comes three weeks after the firm said Schmoke would join the Baltimore office at the end of his term in December."Our legal practice is alive and well in Baltimore," said George P. Stamas, who left Piper & Marbury three years ago to open Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering's Baltimore office.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly | February 27, 1999
David R. Knowlton, special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office, has been named deputy assistant director at the agency's Washington headquarters, where he will lead investigations of organized crime, drugs and violent crimes, and supervising criminal intelligence.Knowlton, 46, who took over the Baltimore office two years ago, has been with the FBI for 28 years. No successor has been named.In Baltimore, Knowlton supervised the investigation of several cases of national interest, including one that led to the successful prosecution of Thomas Capano, the Wilmington, Del., lawyer convicted of the 1996 murder of his mistress, Anne Marie Fahey.