Business

SIDNEY — “Despite the increasing levels of financial and economic uncertainty that we all have faced over the past year, Mutual Federal has continued to generate record financial performance through this period,” said President Dean Weinert. “While the residential mortgage market has softened a bit from its last few years of unprecedented activity due to the Fed’s continuing strategic efforts to combat inflation through a series of interest rate hikes, overall loan volume growth for the bank of over 15% has continued to reflect strong growth within our local markets, indicative of the actual underlying strength in our economy.”

TROY — In April 2022, Howard Hanna Real Estate Services (Howard Hanna), continuing to execute its long-term strategic growth plan, announced a merger with HER, REALTORS, the country’s largest agent-owned real estate firm. This transaction added approximately 1,200 agents and 90 offices to Howard Hanna’s portfolio, expanding its footprint in Ohio, Michigan and Northern Kentucky.

SIDNEY — 2022 was a great year for D&S Construction thanks to the groundwork the company had done previously.

Choice One Engineering, a civil engineering, landscape architecture and surveying firm located in Sidney, Ohio, had a year of growth in 2022. The company, founded in Sidney in 1994 (with a second office in Loveland, Ohio), provides services to public and private clients throughout western Ohio, eastern Indiana and northern Kentucky.

RUSSIA — Francis Schulze Company, located in Russia, specializes in the wholesale distribution of building materials to lumber dealers, retail home centers and door specialists throughout the Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky markets.

SIDNEY — Crale Builders Inc. is a general contractor specializing in residential and commercial construction since 1995. The owners of the company, Craig Kuck and Dale Bensman, have been committed to offering quality products and services in the communities that we serve.

TROY — Garden Gate Realty has announced Penny Reed as the business’ new office manager. Reed is in charge of total operations of buying and selling.

TROY — The Miami Valley Today is preparing for the publication of its annual Progress Editions in February.

VERSAILLES — Midmark Corp., a leading animal health solutions provider focused on the design of the clinical environment to improve the delivery of care, today announced it received a Gold VETTY Award from the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) for the “Synthesis Cabinetry” integrated campaign developed by the Midmark Animal Health marketing team. Presented today at NAVC’s Veterinary Meeting and Expo in Orlando, Florida, Midmark was recognized for marketing excellence in the brochure, webpage, emails, social media posts and infographics created to support the campaign.

TROY — The Miami Valley Today is preparing for the publication of its annual Progress Editions in February.