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CRAIN’S CLEVELAND BUSINESS
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JULY 25 - 31, 2011
100 LARGEST NORTHEAST OHIO EMPLOYERS RANKED BY FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT LOCAL EMPLOYEES(1) Full-time equivalent local employees Rank
Company Address Phone/Web site
86
Total number of employees in Ohio Type of business
Top local executive Title
6/30/2011
6/30/2010
% change
Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools 37047 Ridge Road, Willoughby 44094 (440) 956-5000/www.weschools.org
942
925
1.8%
942
Public school district
Stephen Thompson superintendent
87
Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District 2155 Miramar Blvd., University Heights 44118 (216) 371-7171/www.chuh.org
908
918
(1.1%)
908
Public school district
Douglas G. Heuer superintendent
88
Saint Gobain Corp. 750 E. Swedesford Road, Valley Forge 19482 (610) 341-7000/www.saint-gobain-corporation.com
904
839
7.7%
904
Construction products, high-performance materials, glass containers
John Crowe president, CEO
89
Elyria Schools 42101 Griswold Road, Elyria 44035 (440) 284-8000/www.elyriaschools.org
862
907
(5.0%)
862
Public school district
Paul M. Rigda superintendent
90
Safeguard Properties LLC 7887 Safeguard Circle, Valley View 44125 (216) 739-2900/www.safeguardproperties.com
860
699
23.0%
860
Inspection and maintenance of defaulted and foreclosed properties nationally
Alan Jaffa CEO
91
Menorah Park Center for Senior Living 27100 Cedar Road, Beachwood 44122 (216) 831-6500/www.menorahpark.org
854
876
(2.5%)
1,131
Full continuum of care for seniors including residential and community services
Steven Raichilson executive director
92
Steris Corp. 5960 Heisley Road, Mentor 44060 (440) 354-2600/www.steris.com
852
787
8.3%
913
Maker of sterile processing and infection prevention systems
Walter M. Rosebrough Jr. president, CEO
93
Myers Industries Inc. 1293 S. Main St., Akron 44301 (330) 253-5592/www.myersindustries.com
849
863
(1.6%)
1,015
94
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 1455 E. Sixth St., Cleveland 44114 (216) 579-2000/www.clevelandfed.org
847
873
(3.0%)
979
U.S. Central Bank
Sandra Pianalto president, CEO
95
RPM International Inc. P.O. Box 777, Medina 44258 (330) 273-5090/www.rpminc.com
825
901
(8.4%)
982
Specialty coatings for industrial and consumer markets
Frank C. Sullivan chairman, CEO
96
Lakewood City School District 1470 Warren Road, Lakewood 44107 (216) 529-4092/www.lakewoodcityschools.org
803
816
(1.6%)
803
Public school system
Jeffrey Patterson superintendent
97
Luk USA LLC 3401 Old Airport Road, Wooster 44691 (330) 264-4383/www.lukusa.com
800
800
0.0%
800
Clutch systems and torque converters for the automotive industry
Marc McGrath president
98
Ohio CAT 3993 E. Royalton Road, Broadview Heights 44147 (440) 526-6200/www.ohiocat.com
775
740
4.7%
775
Caterpillar engine and equipment distributor Kenneth E. Taylor in Ohio, Northern Kentucky and president Southeastern Indiana
99
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center 2351 E. 22nd St., Cleveland 44115 (216) 861-6200/www.stvincentcharity.com
772
1,003
(23.0%)
1,250
Health care provider
Dr. David F. Perse president
Goodrich Landing Gear 8000 Marble Ave., Cleveland 44105 (216) 341-1700/www.goodrich.com
761
890
(14.5%)
1,503
Aerospace technology systems
Mike Brand president
100
Polymer and metal products; equipment for John C. Orr tire service president, CEO
Source: PNC does not report local employees; the Cleveland Municipal School District and Jo-Ann Stores Inc. did not submit information. Information is supplied by the companies unless footnoted. Crain's Cleveland Business does not independently verify the information and there is no guarantee these listings are complete or accurate. We welcome all responses to our lists and will include omitted information or clarifications in coming issues. Individual lists and The Book of Lists are available to purchase at www.crainscleveland.com. (1) Employees working in Ashland, Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and Wayne counties. Number of employees in Ohio may include full-time and part-time employees, not FTEs. (2) Information is from the 2010 100 Largest Northeast Ohio Employers list. (3) Lubrizol Corp. has agreed to be acquired by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The transaction is expected to close during the third quarter of 2011. (4) 2011 employee number from Wayne Economic Development Council; 2010 employee number from The Daily Record, Oct. 23, 2009.
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in Ohio. It eventually will get as much as $100 million annually from state liquor profits to invest in job creation. Under the plan outlined by a JobsOhio solicitation for proposals, six regional organizations would contract with JobsOhio to run offices that would be the economic development organization’s primary eyes and ears. Those offices would replace a network of 12 regional economic development directors, or REDDs, who worked for the governor and the state Department of Development. The state would provide as much as $2.5 million in startup administrative seed money to each of the six organizations. In the past, a mayor or county economic development director would call the REDD, who would join negotiations and bring in state dealmakers to put together an incentive package that might include loans or tax credits. Now, however, the regional groups would be the dealmakers.
JobsOhio is still in its formative stage, and few details are available about how it will operate. So, it’s hard for those entities that likely will run the regional offices to talk about how they might work. “You’re going to find us a little reluctant to (speak) very much because there are just a lot of things in process,” said Team NEO president Tom Waltermire, who was putting the last touches on his group’s response to the state’s call for proposals when contacted by Crain’s last Thursday, July 21. “Over the next month not only will a lot of things be fleshed out at the state of Ohio level, but also inside the region,” he said. But Mr. Waltermire did want to make clear that Team NEO will continue to work collaboratively with communities and chambers of commerce in its JobsOhio role. Kristi Tanner, an assistant director of the Department of Development who is leading the transition to JobsOhio, said the change will
make for “a flatter organization.” Ms. Tanner said Team NEO and its counterparts in the other regions will be empowered to advise companies and local development officials on what kind of deals the state might be willing to offer. But a state agency or financing board will need to sign off on any incentive packages that include tax credits or state loans or grants. Edward Hill, dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, sees a similarity to the bank business in how the new setup will work. “The analogy I have is branch banking,” because the regional offices will have limits on what they can authorize, Mr. Hill said.
Original intent Nine years ago, regional business leaders, led by the late H. Peter Burg, then chairman and CEO of FirstEnergy Corp., began talking about creating a nonprofit that would bring together the spectrum of economic development efforts in Northeast Ohio into a grand collab-
oration. The goal was to do a better job of stimulating business development in the region than the cities, counties and chambers of commerce could do on their own. But it didn’t work out that way. Despite public expressions of support from chamber of commerce and economic development officials, not everyone was willing to let a new regional organization share their stage. “It was passive aggressiveness done in a beautiful fashion,” Mr. Hill said. By 2006, when Mr. Waltermire was hired, the organization’s ambitions had been scaled back, and it worked exclusively on attracting new business to the region. Business retention and expansion were left in the hands of local officials. But JobsOhio now will be putting those programs back in Team NEO’s portfolio. Regional economic development officials representing private-sector interests who were contacted last week sounded eager to work in the new system. “Team NEO has been around for
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a while and a lot us have had a chance to put that together,” said Tom Humphries, president and CEO of the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce. “So the collaboration is automatic.” Bob Bowman, deputy mayor of Akron for economic development, is more skeptical. Partly that’s a result of not yet knowing how the JobsOhio Network will work. “I understand the idea of making it businesslike,” Mr. Bowman said. “I don’t know how somebody from the private sector puts together a public deal.” He conceded that a major issue for political leaders was, “Who gets the credit? “The state always wants credit, and now the region will want credit, which was not involved until now, and there’s also the local level and all the people in between,” he said. That concern may not be warranted. Mr. Waltermire said the JobsOhio regional office will work independently of his group’s business attraction operation. “Somewhere, Pete Burg is smiling,” said Brad Whitehead, president of the Fund for Our Economic Future, which has helped nurture Team NEO and other regional economic development collaborations. ■