CR ad staff earns awards

The Commercial Review’s advertising staff picked up five awards during a ceremony Sept. 15 in Indianapolis.
The CR’s advertising staff earned a first place and four second-place honors in the Hoosier State Press Association and Indiana Newspaper Advertising Executives Association Best Advertising Contest. That was sixth-most in the division for daily newspapers with a circulation of 6,000 or fewer.
The win for The Commercial Review went to former advertising representative Lindsey Cochran and advertising designer Eric Daugherty in the "other retail advertising" category for an ad for Portland Veterinary Clinic.
Cochran and Daugherty added a second-place honor for "residential services" for an ad for Vore’s Welding & Steel.
Advertising manager Jeanne Lutz and Daugherty teamed for a pair of second-place finishes, one in the "home" category for an ad featuring four Berne furniture stores and the other in the "vehicle delearships" category for an ad for Fincannon Ford.
The CR’s staff also garnered a second-place honor in the "churches and nonprofits" category for its full-page Easter display.
The group also won five awards in 2015.

Bistro wins big
Redkey’s Lil Bistro was the big winner Sunday as it earned three awards at Jay County Chamber of Commerce’s Food and Drink Festival.
Lil Bistro’s honors included Best of Festival for its peanut butter lasagna. The entry also took the prize for best dessert.
The other award for the restaurant, 102 W. High St., was for best salad for its tomato cucumber salad.
Other award winners from the festival were: best appetizer - Ivy Tech Chesterfield’s Cafe, thick cut praline bacon; best beverage - Coca-Cola Refreshments, assorted drinks; best entree - Koffee Kup Diner, chicken and dumplings; best pizza - Suman Bros. Pizza, pizza assortment; best sandwich - Romer’s Catering, pork brisket sliders.

Glancy to build
Downing and Glancy Funeral Home in Geneva is in the process of building a new facility.
Owner Jeff Glancy announced the construction of a new 8,876-square-foot funeral home that is projected to open near the end of the year. It is being constructed at the site of the current facility, 100 Washington St., and will feature a chapel, closed-circuit TV, meditation room and a new sound system.
Glancy and his family took over the business in 2002.

Key support
Paul Coulson, the Irish financier who owns 36 percent of Ardagh Group, said this month initial support from Anglo Irish Bank was the key to the glass and metal packaging company’s growth. The Irish Times reported that Coulson made the comments at a meeting of the Institute of Directors in Dublin.
“It would have been utterly impossible to build this business without Anglo’s support in the early years,” the newspaper quoted Coulson as saying.
Ardagh, parent company of glass container plants in Dunkirk and Winchester, traces its routes to the former Irish Glass Bottle Company. 
Coulson bought an initial stake in that company in 1998.
He then turned to Anglo Irish for debt financing in 2005 as the group was in the early stages of transforming itself into one of the world’s largest packaging companies through acquisition, The Irish Times reported.
Ardagh is expected to float a stock issue on the New York Stock Exchange in the first half of 2017, and Coulson has indicated that further mergers and acquisitions are on hold in the meantime.

Spinning off
Yum Brands is spinning off its operations in China.
Yum, which owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC, filed Wednesday to issue 10 million shares for its spinoff company, Yum China Holdings. The division will operate more than 7,000 restaurants in China.

New meal?
McDonald’s is testing a new menu offering — a breakfast Happy Meal.
The fast-food chain will test idea at 73 restaurants in the Tulsa, Okla., area, with the possibility of rolling it out nationally in 2017. The meal will include the choice of a McGriddle or egg and cheese McMuffin sandwich as well as a side of either apple slices or yogurt.

Facing suit
Reuters reported this week that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have to face a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company defrauded its shareholders by concealing suspected bribery in Mexico.
“In a decision on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Hickey in Fayetteville, Arkansas rejected Wal-Mart's contention that a Michigan pension fund had no standing to lead the case because it had not suffered losses on the retailer's stock,” Reuters reported.
As a result, shareholders can sue both Wal-Mart and former chief executive officer Mike Duke as a group.
The bribery allegations surfaced in a 2012 article in The New York Times, but shareholders believe the company knew about the bribery scheme as early as 2005.