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2024SOCIETYLEVELS

Paul J. Sorg

George M. Verity

John B. Tytus

Honoring local industrialists who made an immeasurable impact on our community and the world at-large.

Colin Gardner

Charles R. Hook

2024SOCIETYMEMBERS

Sorg Society

Verity Society

Hook Society

Tytus Society

Akers Packaging Service

AMS Parts

Baker Concrete Construction

Duke Energy

Essity

G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc.

Hawthorn Glen senior

living Campus

Joe Morgan Honda

LCNB National Bank

Magellan Aerospace

Majestic care of Middletown

Markey’s

Miami Valley Gaming

Middletown Energy Center

One smarter

PAC Worldwide Corporation

Precision Strip, Inc.

Quaker Houghton

The Windamere

Valley Central Bank

2024EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Rhonda Seidenschmidt

Chair

BOARDOF DIRECTORS

Shannon Bannerman Riley’s Furniture

Shannon Bannerman

Vice Chair

Sharon Drewry Crane Consumables

Ande Durojaiye Miami University Regionals

Jason Manni

At-Large Member

Brady Fening LCNB National Bank

Jon graft Butler Tech

Chip Hitte

Immediate Past Chair

Rick Pearce

President/CEO

Jason Manni Cincinnati Commercial Contracting

Daniel Million AMS Parts

Rick Pearce The Chamber of Commerce

Marvin Phillips Phillips Tube Group

Rhonda Seidenschmidt

Premier Health Atrium Medical Center

Chip Hitte Huntington

Rich Keller McGraw/Kokosing

Megan Selnick Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc.

PRES/CEOMESSAGE

Rick Pearce

Thank you all for your renewal and new memberships to the chamber. We have a long history of supporting the business community since our founding in 1917.

We have a great deal to be proud of as we dive deeper into bringing workforce solutions to our members. As many of you well know, we spend the majority of our time supporting our Future Ready Task Force.

This fall, we rolled out a new initiative called The Workforce Institute. The Institute bridges the gap between education and business by fostering meaningful conversations about local career opportunities, future workforce needs and skills needed with a focus on manufacturing and healthcare. Educators toured three host facilities to explore:

• Key skills required for employment

• Career advancement pathways

• The variety of local career opportunities

We piloted the program with Middletown City Schools and their Passport To Tomorrow instructors. We look forward to expanding the program in future years.

To our members and employers in our service area, we make the following pledge in everything we do, we believe in fostering a prosperous business environment that builds and supports a thriving community. We strive to identify creative solutions to challenges that affect our members.

The success of this organization lies in the We are excited about 2025 and what it can bring and we your workforce challenges.

Best in Profits -

Our Why//

in everything we do, we believe in fostering a prosperous business environment that builds and supports a thriving community. We strive to identify creative solutions to challenges that affect our members.

ourFOCUS AREAS

• Advise Board of Directors on influencing elected officials and government policy makers to advance pro-business legislation

Our Vision / /

our business community is proud, vibrant and prosperous, poised for the future and prepared for sustainable success

Our Mission / /

to promote economic prosperity for our current and future members

• Grow future leaders for our region

2024ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Workforce Institute Pilot Program

September, October, November 2024

Objectives of the program:

• to introduce educators to local employers

• to show educators the skill sets needed to obtain entry-level employment

• to allow educators to speak with workers about the skill sets

• to allow employers and educators to develop an interactive learning experience to deliver to students

Participating educators & employers:

• 8 Elementary Passport to Tomorrow instructors

• 6 Jr. High Passport To Tomorrow instructors

• Magellan Aerospace

• Packaging Corporation of America

• Premier Health Atrium Medical Center

What we learned:

• 75% of those participating were not familiar with local career opportunities

• 75% had a better understanding of the skills required to obtain local employment

• 67 % reported that the experience was relevant and engaging

• 92% will contact The Chamber when needing an expert to speak with students

Funded by:

2024ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Passport To Tomorrow

• 85 endorsing companies

• Creating interactive experiences for students explaining what they do/make

• K-5th Grades

• 2,858 students

• 6th-8th Grades

• 1,362 students

Adopt A Class

• 23 chamber participating organizations with a total of 36 teams

• Mentoring to five (5) elementary schools and one (1) Jr. High

• Amanda, Creekview, Mayfield, Wildwood and Middletown Middle

• Impacting 900 students

• Volunteer hours = $133,000

• $21,600 in donated supplies

2024ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Designing Your Future

• A 33-page document that introduces students and job seekers to our local employers. The companies highlighted are endorsing organizations of Passport To Tomorrow

Manufacturing Month—October

• 450+ students toured 10 facilities

• BlueScope, Crane Consumables, Cleveland-Cliffs, Deceuninck, Magellan Aerospace, Phillips Tube, Pilot Chemical, Shape Corp., Shepherd Chemical, Worthington Steel

Healthcare Month—November

• Premier Health Atrium Medical Center hosted 80+ students from area schools

• Toured clinical and non-clinical areas

2024ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Growing future leaders for tomorrow

• CLIMB (Cultivate-Lead-Inspire-Motivate-Build) – celebrating 39 years of developing community leaders

• 16 participated in the 2024 Program (April November)

• Delivered 16 hours of professional development

• Sessions focused on the DiSC behavior assessment to help participants better understand themselves and others

• DiSC Behavior Assessment

• Time Management, Prioritization, Delegation

• Leading vs. Managing

• Dress for Success

• Effective Networking Strategies

• Public Speaking/Presentations

• Leading Through Workplace Conflict

• Measuring Success & Goal Setting

• Tours were conducted at the following facilities:

• Middletown Municipal Court

• Shape Corporation

• Phillips Tube Group

• Magellan Aerospace

• Escape Room all teams succeeded

• Passport To Tomorrow Middletown City Schools

• Miami University Regionals

• MolsonCoors

2024ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Advise Board of Directors on influencing elected officials and government policymakers to advance pro-business legislation

• Conducted monthly sessions with representatives from:

• Three (3) municipalities

• Four (4) public school districts

• Butler County officials

• State Representatives & Senators

• Congressman Warren Davidson’s office

• Business Retention & Expansion Visits (BRE) with City of Middletown

• 11 visits with local employers to learn their challenges and develop possible solutions.

• Adonai Technologies, G&W Machinery, Metal-Matic, Cronin Ford, Precision Strip, McGraw/Kokosing, Suncoke

• Actively participated in various groups:

• U.S. Chamber Foundation Center for Education & Workforce

• MasterClass Increasing School Board Engagement

• Houston TX

• Quarterly Meetings with the Greater Hamilton Chamber of Commerce

• SOCA – Southern Ohio Chamber Alliance

• CCEO – Chamber of Commerce Executives of Ohio

• ACCE — Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives

INVESTORPROFILES

Cleveland-Cliffs is Steel

Cleveland-Cliffs is the largest flat-rolled steel producer in North America. We are vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. The Company serves a diverse range of markets due to its comprehensive offering of flat-rolled steel products and is the largest supplier of steel to the automotive industry in North America-headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

• 27,000+ employees

• 46 operating facilities, including 3 sites around Middletown, Ohio and Innovation Center, West Chester Regional Office)

• Middletown Works is an integrated steel operation with carbon steel melting, casting, hot-and cold-rolling and finishing operations

• Innovators of specialty grades of steel

• Sustainable business model focused on the best environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices and production of clean steel

Visit www.clevelandcliffs.com for more information. For available job openings, visit careers.clevelandcliffs.com.

Atrium Medical Center has served Southwest Ohio from its Middletown campus since 1917. We are Warren County’s only Level III Trauma Center and Primary Stroke Center, providing immediate assessment and care for seriously injured or ill patients, and the only accredited Chest Pain Center in Warren County. We offer maternity, cancer, orthopedics, heart care, and much more as part of Premier Health. Leading national organizations regularly recognize Atrium’s quality care, including:

• “High Performing” in Heart Attack, Stroke, and Maternity Care (Uncomplicated Pregnancy) by U.S. News & World Report (2024)

• Two consecutive “A” safety grades by The Leapfrog Group (2024)

• Top 50 rehabilitation hospitals in the nation (202223) by U.S. News & World Report

• Women's Center with comprehensive breast cancer services

• Surgical services, including minimally invasive, robotic options

• Accredited Level 3 Senior Emergency Center from the American College of Emergency Physiciansfirst hospital in the Cincinnati area to achieve the honor

• Family Birth Center with Level II special care nursery and Natural Beginnings - Cincinnati's only natural birth center

Visit www.PremierHealth.com for more information.

INVESTORPROFILES

Deceuninck North America (part of the global Deceuninck Group) is a fully integrated design and PVC extrusion company that produces energy efficient PVC window and door systems. With over 500 employees, the Monroe location includes the North American headquarters, together with manufacturing, tooling and engineering functions.

• More than 1 million sq. ft. of combined production & warehouse facilities

• Over 500 employees in USA. 3,700+ worldwide

• 6 million+ windows built annually in the US by Deceuninck customers

• 15 manufacturing locations worldwide, including Monroe, OH and Fernley, NV

• Winner Best Workplaces in Ohio 2019, 2020 & 2021

Visit www.DeceuninckNA.com for more information

First Financial Bancorp. is a Cincinnati, Ohio based bank holding company. As of September 30, 2021, the Company had $16.0 billion in assets, $9.4 billion in loans, $12.7 billion in deposits and $2.2 billion in shareholders’ equity. The Company’s subsidiary, First Financial Bank, founded in 1863, provides banking and financial services products through its six lines of business: Commercial, Retail Banking, Investment Commercial Real Estate, Mortgage Banking, Commercial Finance and Wealth Management. These business units provide traditional banking services to business and retail clients. Wealth Management provides wealth planning, portfolio management, trust and estate, brokerage and retirement plan services and had approximately $3.2 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2021. The Company operated 139 full-service banking centers as of September 30, 2021, primarily in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, while the Commercial Finance business lends into targeted industry verticals on a nationwide basis. Additional information about the Company, including its products, services and banking locations, is available at www.bankatfirst.com

INVESTORPROFILES

As a faith-based, nonprofit health system, Kettering Health strives to improve the lives of people in our communities through healthcare and education. Kettering Health is made up of 15 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient locations throughout western Ohio, as well as Kettering Health Medical Group with more than 700 board-certified providers dedicated to elevating the health, healing, and hope of the community. Kettering College, a division of Kettering Health Main Campus, is a fully accredited college that specializes in health science education.

Kettering Health opened its Middletown location in 2018, providing comprehensive care that is centered around the whole patient mind, body, and spirit. Kettering Health Middletown is equipped to care for and help guide every person to their best health.

Services include:

• 24/7 emergency care with MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound, and cardiac testing

• Behavioral health services

• Brain and spine care

• Heart and vascular care

• General surgery

• Orthopedic care

• Primary care

• Women’s health services

• Urology care

Visit ketteringhealth.org for more information

• 3D mammography with SensorySuite technology

Phillips Tube Group, Inc., is a leading US provider of American-made innovative tube component solutions. Our corporate headquarters is located in Middletown, Ohio, with plants in Middletown and Shelby, as well as Richmond, IN.

A woman-owned business, we offer the highest quality welded steel tube available in today’s marketplace. For over 58 years, we’ve manufactured consistent products capable of severe fabrication by sourcing materials through integrated steel mills. The result is exceptional quality and timely delivery with a tube that works in your application. Our extensive history of quality, service and reliability has earned us the trust of Tier 1 and 2 auto suppliers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide.

Industries where you can find Phillips Tube Group tubing:

• Automotive: fuel filler, instrument panels, seating, wiper systems, trunk hinges, exhaust

• HVAC: heat exchanger, unit frames, manifolds

• Appliances: frames, burners, handles

• Recreational Vehicle: refrigeration, appliances, awnings

• Construction: deep drilling, fencing, building framing, mining, solar, signposts

• Agriculture: gates, lawn and garden, farm equipment

• Material Handling: conveyor systems, trailers, forklifts

INVESTORPROFILES

The Molson Coors Trenton, OH Brewery, which opened in 1991, is one of the company’s most modern breweries. Located between Cincinnati and Dayton, the brewery produces such brands as Miller Lite, Coors Light, Miller High Life.

• 1,056 acres, capacity to brew 11 million barrels of beer a year

• 494 employees; 399 technicians and 95 salaried

• Brewery locations in Milwaukee, WI; Albany, GA; Elkton, VA; Fort Worth, TX; Golden, CO

• Produced 2 million cans of water for humanitarian disasters

• Landfill free since 2009

• Healthy Worksite Award 2013-2020

• 2016 Duke Energy Power Partner

• 2017 Ohio EPA Gold Encouraging Environmental Excellence Award

• Healthy Worksite Platinum Award 2022

• Cancer Screen Excellence Award 2024

Visit www.molsoncoors.com for more information