Business

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.

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.

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

DAYTON — The Downtown Dayton Partnership (DDP), along with its small business development partners, is inviting business owners to apply to the Retail Lab small business accelerator program, presented by Fifth Third Bank.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) introduced the Fairness for Farm Workers Act, legislation to update the nation’s labor laws to ensure farm workers receive fair wages and compensation.

PIQUA — Beginning this week, First Choice Waste Removal customers will be picked up by Rumpke Waste & Recycling.