Changes ahead for CR web site

The Commercial Review’s web site is getting a new look next week, and there will be a change in how subscribers log in.
Beginning Monday, the username will be a subscriber’s CR account number. The password will be the subscriber’s last name. That’s just the opposite of the current arrangement.
A subscriber’s account number is listed on customers’ renewal cards.
If a subscriber doesn’t know his account number, he can e-mail [email protected] or call The CR at (260) 726-8141.
The new site will have a number of improvements.
The CR maintains its web site as a service to newspaper subscribers. A web-only subscription is also available.

EPC expanding
Elkhart Products Corp. is planning an expansion of its Geneva plant that could mean the addition of 32 to 45 jobs.
Town manager Doug Milligan told council members this week the company intends to boost production of aluminum pistons by 60 percent with an investment of about $3.4 million.

Hit by lightning
A lightning strike Thursday afternoon is believed to be the cause of a fire which badly damaged Littler Diecast’s aluminum alloy die-casting plant in Albany.
Firemen from several area departments battled the fire which gutted the building.

Ahoy, chips
Saratoga Potato Chips LLC announced Thursday it plans to invest more than $4.9 million to establish a production facility near Fort Wayne.
The plant, which is expected to create up to 175 jobs, will produce potato chips, kettle chips, and popcorn in leased space west of Fort Wayne near Bass and Hadley roads.
The facility will also be the U.S. headquarters for the Canadian company.

Deal opposed
Twenty-one organizations have formed a coalition in opposition to Comcast’s proposed takeover of NBC Universal.
The Coalition for Competition in the Media includes advocacy groups, independent programmers, and telecommunications workers.
The proposed $28 billion deal would give Comcast control of NBC’s network, its cable channels, its owned-and-operated TV stations, and a movie studio.
The Federal Communications Commission is currently reviewing the proposed transaction.
Comcast, based in Philadelphia, is the largest cable TV company in the U.S.
Trust representative
First Bank of Berne announced Ryan Schwartz has been named as Trust Representative of the First Bank of Berne Trust Department.
Schwartz was raised in Berne and graduated from South Adams High School. He graduated from Krannert School of Management at Purdue with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and holds a master’s degree from Ball State in finance.
He has worked with First Bank of Berne since 2006 and serves as treasurer of the Adams County Chapter of the American Red Cross, treasurer of the Berne Swiss Days Committee and teaches seventh grade Junior Achievement at South Adams.

Sales up
Walgreen Co. reported that same-store sales rose 2 percent in June after two months of declines.
Overall sales increased 8.4 percent to $5.6 billion. Same-store results, sales in stores open more than a year, were contrary to the typical currents in the drugstore industry.

Curves shrinking
Curves International Inc. has struggled as its U.S. franchises shrunk by about a 1,000 locations while the company tries to keep up with other fitness chains.
Curves held about four million members at the end of 2008 and despite the closings, the company has remained profitable, earning $16.4 million in 2009.

Board member
Joe Caffee, senior vice president and head of lending for First Bank of Berne, was named to the bank’s board of directors effective July 1.
Caffee graduated from South Adams High School and holds a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Education from Purdue University and a master’s from the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin.
He has worked at First Bank of Berne since 2002 and serves on the South Adams FFA Advisory Committee, is a 4-H leader and sits on the Indiana Advisory Board for the the Graduate School of Banking.[[In-content Ad]]