REGION

REGION

Bounce A-Round plans
facility for the public

BOARDMAN — Bounce A-Round Rentals and Indoor Party Center will expand its operations in January. A 20,000-square-foot family entertainment center will open in the same building as the current party center. Owner Linda Gilkinson also plans to expand its staff in order to be open seven days a week.

The party center now is used primarily for birthday’s and private parties. The new facility will be open to the public everyday for indoor play. It will include several new giant inflatables, carnival games and a snack bar.

Zande intends to sell
to Canadian company

COLUMBUS — R.D. Zande & Associates, a Columbus-based civil and environmental engineering firm, has signed a letter of intent to sell the company to Stantec of Edmonton, Canada. Zande has an office in Youngstown, which employs seven. Stantec provides professional design and consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, economics and project management. It employs 7,500 at more than 100 locations in North America.

Leabella Salon opens
shop in Cornersburg

CORNERSBURG — Leabella Salon recently opened at 3450 S. Meridian Road. The shop offers a variety of services. Judy Shirilla Rossi is one of the stylists, while Ruth Lane is the barber. Colleen Vallas is a professional nail technician, and Matt Emrich is a certified massotherapist.

NATION

Surveyed women list
why start own business

NEW YORK — A desire for work-life balance and self-management were the top reasons women wanted to start their own businesses, said the respondents to this summer’s Make Mine a Million $ Business survey.

“After having a successful career in corporate America, I wanted to create some options,” said Maureen Borzacchiello, president of Creative Display Solutions, a West Hempstead, N.Y.-based firm. “It was [about] taking control of my life and being able to say, ‘If I want to have a child and work part-time or work at 2 in the morning, I have that option.”’

Almost two-thirds of the women who participated in the survey said they were mothers.

Voluntary e-mail questionnaires were sent to women registered on the Make Mine a Million $ Business Web site. Make Mine a Million $ Business is a program co-founded by the nonprofit Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence and American Express Co.

Author: Corporate gifts
need not be impersonal

NEW YORK — When it comes to holiday shopping for corporate vendors and clients, it may be tempting to buy a pair of tickets to a sporting event and call it a day.

But expensive, corporate-paid gifts are often impersonal, according to Dov Seidman, author of “HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything in Business [and in Life]” and chief executive of business ethics company LRN.

“You want to give something that is meaningful in the context of your relationship, and not something just of monetary value that might have very little authentic connection to your experiences with them,” Seidman said.

Extravagant gifts, like gluttonous dinners or a new set of golf clubs, could be perceived as inappropriate and may even alter the business relationship for the worse. Instead, Seidman suggests buying gifts that will spark conversation and are not as costly, like books.

Vindicator staff/wire reports