Branding seminar set at John Jay

A workshop on branding of companies or products will be held Tuesday at John Jay Center from 6-8:30 p.m.
The workshop will be conducted by Tafani Stober of Reusser Design and Craig Frazee, Dynamic Business Solutions.
Topics will include the message sent and the image conveyed, along with personal consultations to determine the best branding strategy.
Cost is $25 for the general public. The session is free to Dream Haven participants, students at Jay County High School or members of The John Jay Center.
For more information, contact Debbie Howell or Cindy Cash at (260) 729-5525.

Tyson donation
Tyson Foods Inc. this week gave $23,895 to Emporia, Kan., for an outdoor warning and notification system to alert residents of dangerous weather or other emergencies.
Tyson’s Emporia meat processing plant employs more than 900, with a payroll of $32.9 million in 2010.

Red Gold promotion
Rick Jones, who has been plant manager at the Red Gold Inc. Geneva facility since 2005, has been promoted to the Orestes-based company’s director of quality and product development.
Jones, who served as production manager at Geneva from 1995-2005, was operations manager at Red Wing, and also worked for Welch’s Foods.
A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he earned a bachelor of science degree in biology. He and wife Fran live in Decatur.
Red Gold is America’s largest privately-held tomato canning manufacturer, producing products for the retail, food service and private label industries.

Corn diesel
POET announced this week that by the end of this year it will be producing enough corn oil to produce 12 million gallons of biodiesel per year.
POET has been selling “Voila” corn oil to biodiesel and feed markets since January, and the company continues to add capacity.
A POET plant in Hudson, S.D., was the first to produce the product. Four more were later added in Iowa, and a plant in Missouri is starting production currently.
The company, which operates POET-Biorefining Portland, produces ethanol and animal feed in addition to the biodiesel. At seven of its plants, POET also captures carbon dioxide for beverage producers.
The company is the largest producer of ethanol in the world.

New Ball leader
Ryan Johnston, M.D., has been appointed director of the IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine Residency program.
Johnston, a native of Indianapolis, completed undergraduate and graduate medical studies at Indiana University, and completed an internal medicine residency at Northwestern University.
He replaces J. Matthew Neal, M.D., who has served as director of the program since 2000.

Name change
A total of 22 Flagstar branches in Indiana will take on the First Financial Bank today.
First Financial, which operates branches in Dunkirk and Fort Recovery, paid $23 million for the branches in August and the deal was scheduled to close today.
Most Flagstar employees will remain on the job.
In Indiana, the parent First Financial Bancorp will have $2.5 billion in deposits and rank 10th among the state’s top 30 banks.[[In-content Ad]]