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Businesses choose Farrisfor marketing needs
YOUNGSTOWN -- CTW Development, a Boardman-based developer, and Golf Headquarters, a retailer with stores in Ohio and Pennsylvania, both have selected Farris Marketing of Boardman as their marketing agent.
Farris will be marketing CTW's Westford Lifestyle Community, a 400-acre mixed-use development on U.S. Route 224 in Canfield Township. Westford will include a shopping center, office space, single-family homes, condos and villas. Plans also call for a hotel and assisted-living facility on the site.
CTW develops retail, residential and office centers.
Golf Headquarters -- with stores in Boardman, Niles and Pittsburgh -- has retained Farris to assist with positioning and marketing for its seven retail locations. Farris developed a marketing program that includes TV, radio, newspaper, direct mail and Internet components. The company also developed a new interactive Web site for the stores -- www.GolfHQ.com.
Farris Marketing has been in business since 1982 and has offices in Youngstown, Cleveland and Tampa.
Company receives grantto study fuel additives
YOUNGSTOWN -- Mountain View Systems, a company in the Youngstown Business Incubator, was awarded a federal research grant to study modification of soy bean oil for use as a deposit control fuel additive in gasoline. The funds were awarded by a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Jim Cossler, director of the business incubator, said deposit control fuel additives are required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for all gasoline sold in the United States. If Mountain View Systems' research is successful in creating a renewable, agricultural-based additive, he said, it could dramatically reduce the nation's dependence on the nonrenewable, petroleum-based additives that are used now.
Mountain View Systems was founded by research chemist James Kinder. Cossler said the incubator staff will be working with Kinder to explore commercialization and licensing opportunities for all current and future research initiatives undertaken by the firm.
Ad Club, chamberplan lunch exhibition
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber and its Ad Club will sponsor a luncheon and showing of CLIO Award-winning television commercials of 2003 at noon Wednesday at the Holiday Inn MetroPlex in Liberty. The Ad Club will present scholarships to two Youngstown State University marketing or advertising students. AdvantagePages is also an event sponsor. Call the chamber for more information.
From Vindicator staff reports