Tippin's chain closes remaining restaurants
Overland Park based Tippin's Restaurants Inc ends all operations after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. About 350 workers lose jobs while pies and cheesecakes remain sold in local groceries. Four B Corp. to buy the 30,000 square foot pie plant for 1.48 million.
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Overland Park, Kan
Tippin’s Restaurants Inc
Overland Park
Kansas City
St. Louis
Texas
Tippin’s
Gambucci’s
James Kerwin
Tippin
Four B Corp
Four B
Local Business Directory Fragments With Phone Numbers
Fragmentary directory listing shows AAMS agents Andrew Darnell Michael Stewart Jarrod Meacham and others with multiple phone numbers. Locations include Murphysboro Pinckneyville Vienna West Frankfort and Frankfort area codes.
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Michael Stewart Aams
Jarrod Meacham
Herry
Vintners Form Cubist Movement for Boxed Wines in U.S.
Vintners in California embrace boxed wines or "cash wines" as award winning vintages move into cartons. Delicato Family Vineyards based in Manteca leads with its 90 point Shiraz in boxes while industry officials cite convenience, cost, and recyclability as drivers of a packaging revolution. Experts note consumer skepticism persists but see boxed wine gaining traction with smaller formats and improved bag and tap technology.
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Manteca
Calif
Chris Indelicato
Delicato Family Vineyards
Delicate
John Gillespie
Wine Market Council
St. Helena
U.S
Australia
Roberta Morris
Scholle
America
Wilfred Wong
Beverages & More
David Glancy
Glancy
Sfsommelier Consulting
San Francisco
Franzia
Boxed wine gains popularity as 3-liter size grows
Walnut Creek’s Black Box Wines markets a 3-liter cabernet sauvignon that won a 2004 Orange County Fair gold. Vintner Ryan Sproule says boxed wine blends quality with value as ACNielsen shows boxed wine sales rising 5.5 percent to 204 million dollars. Delicato, founded by Gaspare Indelicato, traces roots to 1924 and post Prohibition vintages, now producing its own labels while noting times change.
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Black Box
Ryan Sproule
Europe
Australia
Acnielsen
Franzia
Laurie Jones
Delicato
Gaspare Indelicato
Delicate
California
Monterra
Encore
Indelicato
Military strains push lawmakers to seek guard reserve dates
Chamber of Commerce leaders urge Congress and the Pentagon to commit to hard deployment and return dates for guardsmen and reservists. They warn 12 to 18 month cycles disrupt businesses, especially small and mid-sized firms, as employers struggle to plan budgets and replace skilled workers while tax and retirement rules complicate benefits during active duty.
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U.S
Iraq
Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Pentagon
Guard
Crowe
Bobby G. Hollingsworth
National Committee For
Guard and Reserve
IRS
Sparta Hospital Earns Two Honors in Quality Initiative
Sparta Hospital becomes the lone Southern Illinois facility in a balanced scorecard project to measure and compare performance, align staff with shared goals, and involve the community through a revised patient satisfaction survey. Hospital officials invite public input as Susan Gutjahr and Peter Hertzing outline apples to apples comparisons and staff engagement.
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Susan Gutjahr
Peter Hertzing
Sparta
Southern Illinois
Hudgins: Specialists staying amid clinic expansion in Pinckneyville
Hudgins says specialists will remain at Pinckneyville clinics offering oncology cardiology neurology podiatry urology immunology vascular orthopedics ophthalmology and gynecology. Clinics generate about 1.6 million or 6.7 percent of the hospital’s 23.8 million gross revenue with outpatient services comprising more than half of operating revenue. He notes no doctor or service is leaving Pinckneyville and cites stable Illinois State Medical Exchange rates as a factor. He urges Illinois malpractice reform to curb rising costs affecting the region.
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Hudgins
Pinckneyville
Illinois State Medical Exchange
Perry County
Illinois
Ford plant closure threatens state aid in Ohio
Ford Motor Co faces up to 15 million dollars in state incentives withdrawal as it ends production of the Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner at the Avon Lake Ohio Assembly Plant and closes the Lorain Assembly Plant. About 1,200 jobs will be cut with the move to Kansas City and Econoline production shifting to Avon Lake by 2006. In 2002 Ohio promised Ford roughly 31.5 million in grants or tax credits in exchange for job and production commitments.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ford Motor Co
Cleveland
Bruce Johnson
Ohio Department of Development
Ford
Ohio
Avon
Avon Lake
Carbondale wins 12th straight certificate for finances
Carbondale earns a certificate of achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association marking 12 consecutive years of recognition. In Johnson County, Rep. John Shimkus announced a $268,880 USDA Rural Development grant to Johnson County 2000 Inc. to fund a 2,970 foot roadway linking Illinois 146 to Red Bud Road, aiding an industrial park and the Shawnee Winery Coop project.
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Financial Report
Carbondale
Government Finance Officers Association of
United States
Canada
City of
Johnson County
U.S
John Shimkus
Collinsville
Johnson County 2000 Inc
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development
Shimkus
Vienna
Industrial Drive
Commercial Street
Illinois 146
Red Bud Road
Shawnee Winery Coop
Johnson County 2000
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