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For two years, Wendy Friedman has tried to collect the $15,000 she says she's owed for designing sweaters for SoHo fashion label Abaeté by Laura Poretzky, whose clients have included pop star Jessica Simpson.
From Crain’s New York Business
NEW YORK — Call it the year of the recall.
From Advertising Age
Joel Ewanick, General Motors Co.'s new marketing chief, says he'll keep bringing in new blood until the automaker gets its marketing messages right.
From Automotive News
Sears Holdings Corp. is hoping reality-TV star Audrina Patridge and a revived 1980s denim brand will give its sagging apparel business fashion cred with shoppers too young to remember Toughskins.
From Crain's Chicago Business
NEW YORK - In 2009 Katie O'Brien was looking for an agency partner to help her launch a major digital effort. The global digital marketing manager at Ben & Jerry's issued a brief to a traditional digital shop and a traditional PR agency, Edelman. The plans they brought back were, in O'Brien's own words, "night and day."
From Advertising Age
Dealer H. Carter Myers III lost a motivated buyer of a GMC Terrain crossover last week because there were no Terrains on his lot.
From Automotive News
While charity in the U.S. overall is in the midst of its most precipitous drop in more than three decades, corporate philanthropy is up — significantly.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
From Jan. 1 through July 1, 258 U.S. dealerships closed, leaving the count at 18,223, says Urban Science, a Detroit-based retail consulting firm that advises manufacturers.
From Automotive News
Automakers and dealers are chasing millions of customers who spend an increasing amount of time each day on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
From Advertising Age
Two years ago, Chicagoan Lisa Rolfe Burik opened Frankie's on the Park, a 3,000-square-foot shopping haven in Lincoln Park for preteens and teens, after she got tired of driving her daughter Frankie, then 13, to the suburbs to find trendy clothes.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
Many northeast Ohio colleges saw their coffers swell in the last school year as benefactors opened their wallets wider despite the lingering effects of the recession.
From Crain’s Cleveland Business
Many Mercury dealers are reluctant to sign their settlement deal with Ford Motor Co. because they want larger payments
From Automotive News
You can plug in and charge the new Chevy Volt from General Motors Co. You can plug in and charge the new Leaf from Nissan Motor Co. But the similarities end there.
From Advertising Age
Fear and loathing be damned — from buying land to investing in new equipment and workers, some of the Cleveland area's strongest manufacturers are plugging money back into their businesses.
From Crain’s Cleveland Business
Roger Penske is known for hefty investments in luxury and import dealerships. But the head of the nation's second-largest auto retailer says he has spotted a new opportunity: domestic franchises.
From Automotive News
Montana is the nation's fourth-largest state in land area and one of the least populated.
From Automotive News
NEW YORK — The Miami-based founders of The Source and Hip Hop Weekly are betting that LeBron James and his new team, the Miami Heat, will be so popular nationally that 20 or more pages of Heat coverage every issue will attract readers from all over the country.
From Advertising Age
A decade ago, Pfizer Inc. snapped up Warner-Lambert and with it Lipitor, the best-selling drug on the planet, with sales that topped $11 billion last year.
From Crain’s New York Business
In some ways, Elmhurst, Ill. manufacturer Lava Lite LLC resembles its signature product, the Lava Lamp: well-established but maybe a little out of date.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
Chrysler Group is scrapping its Five Star dealer reward program in favor of cash incentives meant to encourage dealers to improve customer service, management and facilities.
From Automotive News
In what will most certainly be a big test for new VP-Marketing Joel Ewanick, General Motors Co. has begun advertising for one of the most highly anticipated model launches in years.
From Advertising Age
In some of the 21 northern states where Frank Sibr sells liquid calcium chloride by the tanker truck, the latest fad in state and local government contracting is online bidding, a sort of eBay in reverse: Using the Internet, vendors offer lower and lower prices until time runs out and the lowest bid wins.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
By now you've heard the offense against basketball star LeBron James' one-hour TV special to announce his team choice — that it was narcissistic, sullied his brand and blurred the journalistic line for ESPN.
From Advertising Age
As Americans emerge from recession, they are buying much different vehicles than they did before the crash: smaller, more fuel-efficient, less ostentatious.
From Automotive News
Capitalizing on the Gulf oil spill, ethanol makers are launching a bold public relations offensive touting their clean environmental image as they lobby the Obama administration to allow more of the corn-based fuel in American gas tanks.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
When Joel Ewanick killed the new "Excellence for All" tag line last month, some Chevrolet marketers' first instinct was dismay.
From Automotive News
Northeast Ohio companies, well-versed in playing the financial incentives game with governments in the 50 states, are expanding their horizons and looking for similar incentives in Europe.
From Crain’s Cleveland Business
In 1998, Chuck Templeton started OpenTable Inc. in the bedroom of his San Francisco condo with $50,000.
Crain’s Chicago Business
Dr. Loretta Mueller, 46, a family physician in New Jersey, was so unnerved by the Greek debt crisis and its effect on the stock market that she cashed out some of the funds in her retirement account and bought gold bullion.
From Investment News
By the middle of this decade, Mike Jackson wants all 200-plus AutoNation stores using the same approach to pricing. His vision: Low everyday prices, limited negotiations and third-party validation for customers.
From Automotive News
Malcolite Corp. is beefing up its sales force.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
A growing number of businesses want to help you scoop up what the head of the U.S. Department of Energy has described as fruit hanging so low it might as well be on the ground.
From Crain’s Cleveland Business
As weak new-vehicle sales combine with dramatically shrunken dealer profit margins on new cars, many dealers are trying new ways to pay their salespeople.
From Automotive News
The scientists at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. aren't the only ones who have confidence in Athersys Inc.'s adult stem cell therapy.
From Crain's Cleveland Business
Say goodbye to the "staycation."
From Advertising Age
Ford Motor Co. must do with Lincoln what it has done with the Ford brand — infuse it with new energy and sparkling product — if it is to offset the loss of Mercury sales when that 71-year-old brand dies.
From Automotive News
Even after last year's landmark case Ricci v. DeStefano, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that employers' “race-based action(s)” are not permissible under Title VII unless there is a “strong basis in evidence” that they would have been liable for disparate impact had they not taken the action, the Supreme Court has endorsed efforts to expand the pipeline of candidates.
From Workforce Management
Jonas Falk and Justin Rolls have been looking over the shoulder of the school lunch lady — and they think they can do better.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
WASHINGTON — Federal lawmakers are making a fresh attempt to extend soon-to-expire federal COBRA premium subsidies as well as providing pension plan funding relief long sought by employers.
From Business Insurance
Toyota's bungled reporting of safety defects has created a group of innocent victims: Everyone else in the industry.
From Automotive News
Even as BP struggles to control the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and government authorities and scientists struggle to determine the extent of the environmental damage, Gulf Coast states have landed on a way for the oil company to start making amends: shoring up their tourism industry with advertising dollars.
From Advertising Age
Denis Bartz thought his business dodged a bullet late last year when its health insurer pulled out of the market. UniCare Inc. advised him and 180,000 other policyholders to sign up with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, which offered comparable rates and benefits.
From Crain's Chicago Business
Picture this: Cleveland's landscape reinvigorated with life in the form of urban farms and market gardens. It may be a long way off, but the idealistic vision for the city slowly is taking root as farmers and other entrepreneurs reuse vacant land and parking lots for urban agricultural initiatives.
From Crain’s Cleveland Business
General Motors Co. has a new strategy in dealer relations, led by its CEO and North America boss: Clean up the mess left by the old GM.
From Automotive News
General Motors Co. wanted Joel Ewanick so badly that it twice made a run at him — and only won out after giving in to his biggest demand: autonomy.
From Advertising Age
NEW YORK — Since Lady Gaga's nearly 10-minute video "Telephone" made its debut a few weeks back, it's garnered 28 million views on YouTube, been watched on MTV.com nearly 500,000 times and shared on Facebook and tweeted directly from the pop star's site some 150,000 times.
From Advertising Age
College students will see higher tuition in the fall as schools in Northeast Ohio and across the country look for additional revenue to pay the bills.
From Crain’s Cleveland Business
Even as production snaps back from last year's catastrophic lows, carmakers and suppliers are moving slowly to rebuild their shrunken work forces.
From Autmotive News
Pursuing executive education used to be about personal or corporate gains: Employees got degrees while corporations got stronger workers.
From Crain’s Chicago Business
As the use of temporary workers increases, employers need to guard against the potential liabilities and other pitfalls of bringing in such workers, experts say.
From Workforce Management
Chrysler Group is asking a number of dealers to be arbitration witnesses against rejected dealerships that were in their backyards and are now seeking reinstatement.
From Automotive News
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