How Shearer’s has maintained its remarkable growth during changing times
1. Weatherhead Centurions Shearer’s Foods Inc. City: Massillon Year founded: 1974 Sales growth: 219.98% CEO: C.J. Fraleigh Shearer’s Foods manufactures/distributes Shearer’s Award-Winning Snacks and produces salted snacks for private label and co-pack customers. Shearer’s Foods’ success speaks for itself. In the past five years alone, the Massillon-based snack-food maker has doubled its production, sales, […]
How Eric Lofquist uses product development and trust as key ingredients in Magnus’ success
1. Weatherhead 100 Magnus International Group Inc. City: Painesville Township Year founded: 2007 Sales growth: 2,735.6% Co-owner, president and CEO: Eric Lofquist Magnus International is a manufacturer and distributor of unique, natural animal feed ingredients, natural waxes and alternative fuels. Magnus International Group Inc. bases its growth model on high-volume product development coupled with […]
How Fred Ode continues to drive the growth of Foundation Software
95. Weatherhead 100 Foundation Software Inc. City: Brunswick Year founded: 1985 Sales growth: 29.14% Chairman and CEO: Fred Ode Foundation Software is the developer of Foundation for Windows construction accounting, project management and scheduling software. Since Fred Ode first struck out on his own as a programmer in the early 1980s, he has made […]
How Bright Ideas Press is giving children confidence to be successful in school
17. Weatherhead 100 Bright Ideas Press LLC City: Beachwood Year founded: 2003 Sales growth: 184.54% Co-Founder and President: Nancy McGraw Bright Ideas Press publishes Simple Solutions, providing lifetime mastery through educational materials for K-8 classrooms. As an elementary school teacher trying to find new ways to help her students remember what they learned, Nancy […]
How Joe Pulizzi pulls out the stops to help businesses deliver their content
Weatherhead 100 1. Upstarts Content Marketing Institute City: Cleveland Founded: 2007 Sales growth: 1,684.28% Founder and executive director: Joe Pulizzi Content Marketing Institute runs the largest international event in content marketing, Content Marketing World, and the leading magazine, Chief Content Officer. When Joe Pulizzi left a media company some six years ago to found […]
The 2012 Weatherhead 100
When voters in the Cleveland school district approved its first operating levy in 16 years, it wasn’t an anomaly. It was recognition that Cleveland is and has been in a progressive mode — and the region is in motion as new projects are being planned, developed and launched. Just as a first-ever coalition of business, […]
Unity demands diversity: Tom Nies
How becoming a stronger company takes the viewpoints of many
Movers and Shakers January 2013
People and companies making a difference in Northeast Ohio
January Cleveland Pulse – Gearing up for an unforgettable 2013
Domestic mergers and acquisitions decreased 28 percent from October to November, according to S&P Capital IQ, but the transaction values made up for the lack of volume by increasing 21 percent across the same period. The strong purchasing power capabilities of both financial and strategic buyers, aging baby boomers needing to transition their businesses, and […]
Tom Froehle identified the best firm to combine talents with to create Faegre Baker Daniels
How to score a win at newly merged companies.