Jim Rice started Pro-Fab Inc. in his garage back in 1986. Focusing on the fabrication of aircraft parts, the business grew until finally moving into a 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility 10 years later. Read more | Preview

The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber recently commissioned a two-part study to evaluate the size, composition and economic impact of the aerospace industry on the Greater Oklahoma City region. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City-based defense contract DRG has been awarded the Air Combat Command Fighter F-15C, F-15E, F-16 and F-22A Contract Aircrew Training contract with the United States Air Force. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City is set to again benefit from the closure and relocation of facilities and employees of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, a unit of the Boeing Company - to the tune of a projected 800 to 900 jobs. Read more | Preview

In this job market, things are tight, positions are few, and many have decided to look for new occupations - often in a field different from what they left by choice, or due to a layoff, downsizing or firing. Fortunately, I enjoy my position at okcBIZ, but wanted to see what else might be out there.
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In this job market, things are tight, positions are few, and many have decided to look for new occupations. This often occurs in a career field quite different from what one left by choice, or due to a layoff, downsizing or firing. Fortunately, I enjoy my position at okcBIZ, but wanted to see what else might be out there. Who knows? I might want to be an architect some day. Read more | Preview

In this job market, things are tight, positions are few, and many have decided to look for new occupations, often in a field very different from what they left by choice, or due to a layoff, downsizing or firing. Fortunately, I enjoy my position at okcBIZ, but wanted to see what else might be out there. After all, I might want to be mayor some day. Read more | Preview

It’s the early 1940s and not much is happening on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. Not among the cedar trees, not along the dusty roads — just some homesteads dotting the lonely plains. Read more | Preview

As the American Institute of Architects Central Oklahoma Chapter celebrates 60 years, one might expect this year’s Architectural Tour — the group’s 11th annual — to carry one heckuva theme.

Elliott + Associates Architects was recently honored for its work designing Café 501 at Classen Curve, owned by Pete and Sheree Holloway.
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Ask most people to run down their 10-year goals, and you’re likely to get a few “um”s and a few “I’d like to”s. Read more | Preview

Gary and Janie McCurdy swapped suburbia in Yukon for a Downtown Oklahoma City address. Read more | Preview

PR firm Saxum acquired new digs along Automobile Alley when HSE Architects helped renovate the historic Kirkpatrick Oil Company building at 1300 N. Broadway. Read more | Preview

Bliss Morris may be on the cutting edge of a new interior design movement: banker chic. Read more | Preview

Look closely at the new addition to the Dean McGee Eye Institute, and you will see nods to the original building. Look even closer, and you’ll see the original 1975 building is still there and has been integrated into the new work. Read more | Preview

TAP Architecture’s design for Homeless Alliance WestTown Campus received an Honor Award for Restoration Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse from the American Institute of Architects Oklahoma chapter at their awards banquet on November 3. Read more | Preview

Located at 2909 N. McKinley, Pink Cloud Guest House and Creative Space is the latest incarnation from what had been the Rainbow Grocery Store built around 1915. Read more | Preview

Coppermark Bank was recently named to the NW Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce’s Business Hall of Fame at the Chamber’s annual awards banquet. Read more | Preview

For the fourth quarter of 2011, BancFirst Corporation reported net income of $11.6 million, an increase of 14.0% over the $10.2 million earned in the same period a year ago.
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Farmers Insurance was recognized at a special dinner event on December 2nd  and presented with an award for Business of the Year through the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Read more | Preview

Swipe fees”: It’s a dirty little phrase in the banking industry. Read more | Preview

MidFirst Bank reported July 25 that for the second quarter its earnings were $68.9 million. Read more | Preview

The number is an increase from the $15 million in earnings reported in the same quarter of 2009. Read more | Preview

BancFirst Corporation reported net income of $11.8 million, or $0.75 diluted earnings per share, for the third quarter of 2010. Read more | Preview

The bank has approximately $74 million in total assets, $32 million in loans, $59 million in deposits and $13 million in equity capital. Read more | Preview

The center plans to attract small to medium-size professional service firms to the area. Read more | Preview

Cole & Reed PC
531 Couch Drive
coleandreed.com
Number of employees: 80
Year founded: 1988
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Stow’s Office Furniture
1 N.W. Sixth
stowsofficefurniture.com
Number of employees: 27
Year founded: 1989
In a word: value Read more | Preview

Journey House Travel Inc.
2915 United Founders Blvd.
journeyhouse.com
Number of employees: 33
Year founded: 1938
In a word: excellence Read more | Preview

Align Wealth Management
13921 Quail Pointe Drive
alignmywealth.com
Number of employees: 4
Year founded: 1994
In a word: transparency Read more | Preview

VI Marketing and Branding
125 Park Ave.
vimarketingandbranding.com
Number of employees: 38
Year founded: 1989
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InterWorks Inc.
501 N. Walker Ave., Ste. 150
interworks.com
Number of employees: 17 in Oklahoma City (73 company-wide)
Year founded: 1996
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Integris Health
3366 Northwest Expressway
integrisok.com
Number of employees: more than 9,000
Year founded: 1995
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Price Edwards & Company
210 Park Ave., Ste. 1000
priceedwards.com
Number of employees: 240
Year founded: 1988
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Express Employment Professionals
8516 Northwest Expressway
expresspros.com
Number of employees: 215
Year founded: 1983
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Moisant Promotional Products
10321 Greenbriar Parkway
moisant.com
Number of employees: 7
Year founded: 1990
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okcBIZ magazine announced today that 30 Oklahoma companies have been selected as finalists for the 2012 Best Places to Work in Oklahoma program, which identifies and honors the state’s best employers. Read more | Preview

OKCBiz magazine announced the winners of the Best Places to Work in Oklahoma competition last night at its annual awards dinner at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel. Read more | Preview

OKCBiz magazine announced today that 30 Oklahoma companies have been selected as finalists for the 2011 Best Places to Work in Oklahoma program, which identifies and honors the state’s best employers. Read more | Preview

Tinker Federal Credit Union wins Large Companies category, while Delta Dental takes Small Companies category. Read more | Preview

28 Oklahoma companies have been selected as finalists for the 2010 Best Places to Work in Oklahoma program. Read more | Preview

Register now for the Best Places to Work in Oklahoma program, which identifies and recognizes Oklahoma\'s best employers and aims to improve recruitment for the best companies. Read more | Preview

OKCBiz presented the top 30 companies with awards at the Best Places to Work in Oklahoma in Oklahoma reception and dinner May 15 at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Read more | Preview

OKCBiz announced March 25 that 30 Oklahoma companies were selected as top finalists for the 2009 Best Places to Work in Oklahoma program. This annual initiative identifies and honors Oklahoma\'s best employers. Read more | Preview

OKCBusiness presented the top 30 companies with awards at the Best Places to Work in Oklahoma reception and dinner May 1 at the Cox Business Services Center. Read more | Preview

OKCBusiness has teamed up with local chambers of commerce and sponsors to identify and recognize Oklahoma\'s great employers with its Best Places to Work in Oklahoma program. Read more | Preview

G. Keith Smith
Medical Doctor
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In the Oklahoma City metro area and its surrounding communities, many development projects have been planned, talked about or reported as forthcoming. Some projects took off and did well, while others never came to fruition. Some just fell off the radar. okcBIZ takes a look at some of these commercial projects to see whether these deals are moving forward or dead in the water. Simply put, “Whatever happened to that?!?” Read more | Preview

The Oklahoma Building Chapter of The Associated General Contractors of America named Flintco, LLC Oklahoma City Division President Mark Grimes “2011 Builder of the Year” and honored Flintco with a prestigious “Build Oklahoma Award” at the association’s 72nd annual awards banquet on Jan. 21, 2012 at the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa. Read more | Preview

The Fountains at Canterbury of Oklahoma City completed a $1 million construction project in early December 2011. Read more | Preview

Twenty-eight years in the industry, and Randall McCown knows there’s a new one born every minute. Read more | Preview

There has perhaps been more drama, hubbub, gnashing of teeth and clenching of fists over the House of Bedlam plans than over the actual upcoming bedlam football game. Read more | Preview

Bill Warren is at work on the biggest, and the smallest theater auditoriums in the metro area. At the Warren Theatre in Moore, 1000 Telephone Road, a 600-seat IMAX theater will open in February, while two auditoriums with about 40 seats each will open in two weeks. Read more | Preview

Just a few months ago, Dan Straughan’s office with the Homeless Alliance was in a cramped space behind a bank branch on South Commerce. Things changed this summer. Read more | Preview

What do Keith Moon, Billy Graham and the Oklahoma City Cavalry have in common? Very little, aside from the fact that The Who, the internationally known evangelist and the defunct basketball team all played or prayed in what is now called Cox Convention Center. Read more | Preview

Deep-fried butter won’t be the only new thing at the Oklahoma State Fair this year. State Fair Park President and CEO Tim O’Toole says that since 2005, the park has undergone $70 million in renovations designed to attract and retain business year-round. Read more | Preview

The roster of stores keeps growing for the Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City. The 348,000-square-foot center near Interstate 40 and Council Road already has 65 stores lined up as tenants. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City gets the gold medal for lowest unemployment rate in the nation after a few months of only taking silver. Read more | Preview

After two years of solid revenue growth, the Oklahoma State Treasurer’s Office reported totals slipped in March based on gross receipts. Read more | Preview

When it comes to credit ratings, Oklahoma City is doing AAA-OK.
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A drawback of military personnel and operations through cuts to the Department of Defense budget outlined in Pres. Barack Obama’s 2013 budget will mean a net loss of 948 positions at Tinker Air Force Base. It will inactivate the U.S. Air Force's 3rd Combat Communications Group, also known as the Third Herd. Read more | Preview

Since Oklahoma City rang in 2012, two high-profile national brands opened stores in the metro area, a continuing trend for retailers that previously had little interest in the market. While Anthropologie and Dave & Buster’s had people shouting from the rooftops, many smaller regional and national brands moved here or expanded their presence. Read more | Preview

When Cole Perryman moved from Tulsa to Washington, D.C., with his wife a few years ago, the couple felt on their own, in terms of getting acquainted with the city.

Clandestine corporate headquarter plans, water, web startups and onion burgers were the topics of discussion at the yearly Commercial Real Estate Council’s Forecast. The event brought together commercial real estate experts to discuss the state of the local market, hear from experts, and get a look at what is expected for the coming year. Read more | Preview

Edmond continued to add jobs and employers in 2011 as the city and state worked toward recovery after the recession of the preceding years. For Edmond, the proof of recovery for the city of 83,019 was in the numbers. Read more | Preview

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration today announced a $1 million investment to the city of Midwest City, and the Midwest City Utilities Authority to construct infrastructure improvements to help develop Soldier Creek Business and Industrial Park. Read more | Preview

In a poll conducted last week by EWF International, over 67% of Women Business Owners in the Oklahoma City Metro Area plan on hiring new employees this year. Read more | Preview

Officials with Oklahoma City Community College plan to hold a grand opening for a branch in Capitol Hill to help with the educational needs of residents in that area. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City’s prime resource for small-business advisement is growing into metro-area suburbs. Read more | Preview

Judging by the pick for the new head of Oklahoma City University’s law school shows the university has a thing for judges. Already, Robert Henry, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, was lured from his post to serve as president of OCU. Read more | Preview

There was a time when people in Oklahoma City went to the movies seven days a week without hesitation. Jeff Moore, project director at the Oklahoma Museum of Music and Popular Culture, remembers his grandmother’s habit of jotting down what movie she had seen each day in her diary. Read more | Preview

Harding|Shelton Inc. is now offering two $5,000 scholarships to students of the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City University’s Meinders School of Business has created two graduate programs in conjunction with local energy executives. Read more | Preview

What did Oklahoma look like in 1492? Read more | Preview

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is the recipient of a $3 million grant from the National Eye Institute for research of blinding eye diseases. Dr. Robert E. Anderson, Director of Vision Research at the Dean McGee Eye Institute and Dean A. McGee Professor in the University of Oklahoma (OU) College of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology, serves as the principal investigator for the grant. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma Lt. Gov Todd Lamb welcomed students to Brown Mackie College – where the average age is 29 – by telling them that he himself did not earn his law degree until later in life. No one will be leaving the college with a law degree, but one of six programs offers students the chance to earn a paralegal degree. Read more | Preview

As students return to campuses around the state, or start college for the first time, institutions will be charging more, due to high enrollment and cuts in state funding. Private universities also have raised prices in an attempt to stay solvent. Read more | Preview

Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s largest shareholder focused some direct language toward the company May 7 in an amendment to a previous document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that called for the energy company to set aside goals and practices it feels are not beneficial to current operations and focus on maximizing operational cash flow. It also urged the board to be open to any offers to acquire the whole company, with several provisions. Read more | Preview

Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s Aubrey McClendon no longer will serve as chairman of the company's board of directors, but will continue as CEO. According to company officials, the board's nominating and corporate governance committee “is considering potential candidates with no previous substantive relationship with Chesapeake and will be soliciting input from major shareholders.” Read more | Preview

In response to recent media reports of shady dealings inside Chesapeake Energy Corp. and with its CEO, the board of directors does not plan to extend a lucrative well drilling program past its current deadline of Dec. 31, 2015. Read more | Preview

Chesapeake Energy Corp. shares sharply declined April 18 after a published report showed CEO Aubrey McClendon took out personal loans to the tune of at least $1.1 billion and used Chesapeake wells as collateral. Read more | Preview

Three oil and gas asset monetization transactions announced by Chesapeake Energy Corp. will result in proceeds of about $2.6 billion in cash.

SandRidge Energy Inc. announced April 2 the pricing of its private placement of $750 million of 8.125% senior notes due 2022. Read more | Preview

Ready for some Downtown dining unlike anything the city has seen before? Devon Energy Corp. plans to open a full-service restaurant and banquet space in the top two floors of its new 50-story office tower, in addition to an expansive food court in its adjoining garden wing.

Devon Energy Corp. plans to open a full-service restaurant and banquet space in the top two floors of its 50-story office tower, in addition to a food court in its adjoining garden wing. Read more | Preview

Devon Energy Corp. reported for 2011 its net earnings bested 2010 by $100 million to end the year at $4.7 billion. Read more | Preview

Chesapeake Energy Corporation today provided details on its financial plan to fully fund the company’s anticipated capital expenditures during 2012 and provide additional liquidity for 2013. The company is also projecting that its rapidly increasing liquids production will enable it in 2014 to reach equilibrium between its cash flow from operations and its planned drilling and completion capital expenditures. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City University’s Love’s Entrepreneurship Center will host four dynamic leaders from the business community at the Spring 2012 Entrepreneurship Day from 8 a.m. to noon Feb. 29 in the Kerr-McGee Auditorium at the Meinders School of Business. Read more | Preview

Ten years ago, Janet McDonald and Cindy Utecht labored over their first gift basket. It was beautiful, even if it was constructed inside McDonald’s garage. Read more | Preview

The Oklahoman newspaper and OPUBCO is to be sold in early October, after more than a century of ownership by the Gaylord family, the paper announced Thursday.
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Lead by example, executives are told. Read more | Preview

OKLAHOMA CITY – OKCBiz magazine will announce the 2011 Forty Under 40 winners at its awards party in downtown Oklahoma City Tuesday, September 20 at 6:00 p.m.  The Forty Under 40 program, Read more | Preview

OKCBiz magazine will announce the 2010 Forty Under 40 winners at its awards party 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, on the rooftop at Cardinal Engineering in Oklahoma City's historic Automobile Alley. Read more | Preview

OKCBiz magazine announced its 2009 Forty Under 40 award winners Oct. 13 at an awards party held at First National Center, and Oklahoma City University\'s Meinders School of Business gave each of the honorees a $5,000 scholarship. Read more | Preview

President / 3D Artist, Skyline Ink Animation Studios Read more | Preview

Vice President of Communications, Busey Group of Companies Read more | Preview

Communications Director, Arts Council of Oklahoma City Read more | Preview

Operations Manager, Back40 Design Inc. Read more | Preview

General Manager, Jackie Cooper BMW & Mini Read more | Preview

Co-Chief Operating Officer, Ackerman McQueen / Branded News Worldwide Read more | Preview

Owner/Physician, Epiphanea Center for Aesthetic Medicine Read more | Preview

With so many new businesses opening in Oklahoma City this year, Devon Energy Executive Chairman Larry Nichols joked that Mayor Mick Cornett may be the only mayor in the country who has to drive around with a shovel in his trunk just in case he comes upon a groundbreaking since they seem to be happening all the time. Read more | Preview

The Oklahoma City Council received a 2012-2013 budget overview on May 1, and will spend the next few meetings hearing from various departments and the city manager before adopting it June 12 in time for the next fiscal year that begins on July 1. The budget includes the addition of 85 new positions. Read more | Preview

Thinking of scalping your tickets to an Oklahoma City Thunder game or the upcoming Red Hot Chili Peppers concert outside the Chesapeake Energy Arena? Think again, said Oklahoma City Council members on April 17. But step outside a designated bumper zone that rings the arena, and let the open market take over. Read more | Preview

A bill to reform energy litigation matters passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee and is headed to the full Senate. The bill passed by a 6-3 vote.

The 14th annual Small Business Day at the state Capitol will be April 30 in the second floor rotunda. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., and Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb will deliver a welcome address at 10:30 a.m. Read more | Preview

Members of the Oklahoma City Council unanimously approved a $9 million pledge that will go into a larger funding package to help complete the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum on the south bank of the Oklahoma River, near the intersection of Interstate 35 and Interstate 40. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma's liquor laws soon may be tweaked. The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, with the support of University of Central Oklahoma, the city of Oklahoma City, Downtown OKC Inc. and Bricktown Association, hopes new legislation will quickly receive the governor's blessing. Read more | Preview

Andy Lester
Partner Lester, Loving & Davies P.C.

Building on initiatives in the areas of workers’ compensation reform, lawsuit reform and lowering the personal income tax passed last legislative session, leaders in the state House of Representatives and Senate hope to further those efforts in the session that begins Feb. 6. Read more | Preview

Native American entrepreneurs have a new tool to help determine if they’re ready for business ownership and to help them get started.  Read more | Preview

A former prison chaplain who advocates now for Alzheimer's patients worries that one day he will unable to keep up daily tasks and become a burden on his family. Read more | Preview

An Oklahoma biotechnology company received a $2.4 million grant from the Department of Defense to test an experimental drug that would prevent hearing loss. Read more | Preview

The corporate-wellness culture traces its roots back to the 1980s, when the prevailing wisdom championed a correlation between a healthy lifestyle and a healthier, happier employee. Read more | Preview

In her role as vice president of rural services for Mercy Health System of Oklahoma, it’s Cindy Carmichael’s job to expand the system’s presence across the state. Read more | Preview

Sepsis is a deadly blood poisoning that can strike quickly and kill mercilessly. It claims more than 100,000 American lives each year, and it’s a problem scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have been studying for decades. Read more | Preview

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It was the mid-’90s and the tide was starting to turn. The $246 billion tobacco legal settlement was still a few years away, but popular opinion regarding smoking had reached the tipping point. Read more | Preview

Every day, she wakes at 4 a.m., despite being up most of the night caring for her mother. Read more | Preview

The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic tied for the most awards received by a health care provider at the recent Government Performance and Results Act awards meeting. The White Cloud Health Station in White Cloud, Kan. shared the top spot with OKCIC. Read more | Preview

Used to be, when you drove into a town, you’d find a sign from the local chamber of commerce welcoming you. These days, the first thing a visitor to Oklahoma City is bound to see is a hospital. Read more | Preview

You know when quitting time is, but do you know when it’s time to quit?

Google is expanding its presence in Oklahoma. Read more | Preview

As chief executive officer, Lou Carmichael helped merge two of the metro’s largest low-income health care providers. The merger between Oklahoma Community Health Services and Variety Health Center resulted in a new company with a brand-new name.


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If given the option of working from home — albeit with a 25% pay cut — would the average employee choose that option? Read more | Preview

Resolutions come and go, but for job seekers and those looking for a career change, the same tactics used in previous years may not work as well. Read more | Preview

The Oklahoma Quality Foundation’s Sharing of Best Practices Series, which features CEOs and senior leaders from various companies who are recipients of the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, is pleased to announce Ms. Allyson Young as the keynote speaker on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Read more | Preview

After graduating from U.S. universities, international students must find a job in their degree field, continue their education in a graduate or doctoral program, change to another visa status or return home. Read more | Preview

A potential pitfall. A trap. A lawsuit waiting to happen. Read more | Preview

For October 2011, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Oklahoma increased by 0.2
percentage points to 6.1 percent. Read more | Preview

For the first time in our nation’s history, four generations are working side-by-side. Read more | Preview

Through the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, i2E Inc. has invested $500,000 in Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation's Glioblastoma Project. The Seed Fund participated in an investment round of $1 million with co-investment from the research foundation. Read more | Preview

Those completing postdoctoral fellowships are in good company at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation based on rankings in The Scientist magazine. Read more | Preview

Debbie Musick always hoped potential clients wouldn’t ask the question. Read more | Preview

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When a magazine is as awesome as OKCBiz, everyone wants some ink! Our email boxes get flooded with press releases touting “cutting-edge” and “revolutionary” products that … well, don’t strike us as such. These are the ones we found most dubious in 2011. Read more | Preview

Board members who oversee the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) today awarded nearly $1.9 million to 11 research applicants. Tuesday’s awards are the first in the Oklahoma Applied Research program for FY 2012. All research projects will be completed within three years. Read more | Preview

Want to find the lease history of a building in Oklahoma City? Check on travel information at Will Rogers World Airport? Get updated info on Oklahoma City University classes? There’s an app for all that. Read more | Preview

Good news for techie job seekers: This year is showing an increase in job opportunities for IT positions not only nationally, but in Oklahoma. Read more | Preview

Education. Industry. Creativity. Read more | Preview

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While some employees from Long Beach, Calif., will make the move, other positions will become available to Oklahomans. Read more | Preview

Four Oklahoma City-based companies were named in the top 100 fastest-growing companies in America’s inner cities by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. Read more | Preview

John Krasno has done many things in his lifetime, but what he does best is breathe life into what others say is beyond saving. Read more | Preview

Coolgreens Cafe & Bistro isn’t a national chain, although with the opening of its fifth store in January in Edmond, managing partner Allan McMurrain is looking for additional markets and opportunities outside the metro area. Read more | Preview

In January, Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers will arrive in Oklahoma City to receive an award that not only celebrates achievement on the field, but the spirit of Oklahoma. Read more | Preview

okcBIZ magazine announced the winners of the Fittest Execs and Workplace Wellness programs today at an awards luncheon at St. Anthony's Rapp Conference Center. Read more | Preview

Metro Technology Centers announced its Metro Career Academy (MCA) has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification. Established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute, LEED is the nation’s preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. Read more | Preview

The Oklahoma Humanities Council announced the names of the 2012 awardees to be honored at its Oklahoma Humanities Awards dinner, March 22, 2012, at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. Read more | Preview

John Mackey may not be a household name in Oklahoma, but when he comes to Norman in November many are likely to be interested in what he has to say. Read more | Preview

In 2009, McCorkle Truck Lines CEO David McCorkle saw the freight transport business in Oklahoma drop a staggering 30% to 40%. Read more | Preview

Stephanie Hill and Dewey Beene have sat around more bridal shows than they can count. Taking down names and numbers and handing out business cards at these events had become habit. Read more | Preview

As the supporting agency for 20 arts organizations in the metro area, the business of fundraising is always on Allied Arts president and CEO Deborah McAuliffe Senner’s mind. Read more | Preview

In 1992, Jason Woodruff of Oklahoma City lost his father. At 9 years old, he longed for his dad, a man who took him sailing and helped him with homework. While watching a news special about a grief support center in Portland, he asked his mother if Oklahoma City had a place that could help him.

Applications are being accepted through March 2 from Oklahoma college students who want to work this summer for a high growth startup company as an i2E Fellow. Read more | Preview

Chesapeake Energy Corporation today congratulated the United Way of Central Oklahoma on its record-breaking $22.2 million fundraising campaign in 2011 and thanked Chesapeake employees for helping 2011 campaign chair Martha Burger raise the most funds of any Oklahoma United Way drive. Read more | Preview

Infant Crisis Services was recently rated a four-star charity by Charity Navigator.  The organization is one of only six nonprofits in Oklahoma receiving this honor. Read more | Preview

After more valleys than hills over the past few years, the Oklahoma City Community Foundation reports for fiscal year 2011, which ended in June, the investment performance exceeded 21%. Read more | Preview

NewView Oklahoma on Tuesday received a $100,000 grant from Impact Oklahoma to help fund a low vision clinic that will serve more than 1500 low vision patients each year. The funds will go to purchasing optometric and specialized low vision equipment for the clinic. Read more | Preview

Creative Oklahoma today announced the winners of the 2011 Creative Sparks Awards and Innovation Grants recipients to a sold out crowd at the inaugural Oklahoma Creativity Forum 2011.
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The holidays typically bring good cheer, but this year, Oklahoma nonprofits are expecting it to cost more than ever before. Read more | Preview

At its recent board of directors meeting, Allied Arts introduced its new team of officers for 2011-2013 and its new board members. Read more | Preview

Veteran sales and business development executive, Drake Andarakes, has joined Oklahoma City oil and gas services company, Flogistix, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Read more | Preview

Cassidy Financial Group, Inc. has named Billie Rodely Director of Communications.
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VI Marketing and Branding, a fully integrated marketing firm with offices in Oklahoma City, Colorado Springs and Kansas City has added three key specialists to its Oklahoma City staff. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City University has named Kevin Windholz as vice president for enrollment management, OCU President Robert Henry announced today. Read more | Preview

Chuck R. Thompson, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Republic Bank & Trust, Norman, Oklahoma, announces the following Bank officer promotions:Bret M. Sullivan – has been named senio Read more | Preview

The Bricktown Association, announces Frank Nelson, with Pearl’s Crabtown, as the incoming President of the Board of Directors, and Cy Perkins, with the Bricktown Hampton Inn, as the newly appointed Vice President. Read more | Preview

OU Medical Center, Oklahoma’s largest and most comprehensive hospital, has named Michael A. Reese as its new chief financial officer. Reese, who had been chief financial officer at HCA Delta Division of the hospital’s parent company, Healthcare Corporation of America, will oversee all financial operations at OU Medical Center, The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center and OU Medical Center Edmond.
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Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, L.L.P., a full-service business and commercial law firm with offices in Oklahoma City, Norman and Tulsa, has named Michael C. Wofford as partner. Read more | Preview

Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, L.L.P., a full-service business and commercial law firm with offices in Oklahoma City, Norman and Tulsa, welcomes Tod J. Barrett to its team. Read more | Preview

The Skirvin Hilton Hotel has named Matt Suckow as their new Food and Beverage Outlets Manager. As part of his duties, Suckow will oversee the award-winning Park Avenue Grill and the Red Piano lounge. 
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Terry Clinefelter
Engineering Department Head Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City
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Tim Berney
President, Brand Strategy
VI Marketing and Branding Read more | Preview

As of December 2011, there appeared to be no immediate changes in estate law for calendar year 2012. However, Oklahomans should still be aware of the current rules and regulations in estate law. Read more | Preview

Mickey A. Hepner, Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Central Oklahoma Read more | Preview

Nick Harroz III
President, Mark I Asset Management Ltd. Read more | Preview

In June, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted of a slew of corruption charges, following a trial featuring recordings of his phone conversations with aides. Read more | Preview

According to the latest economic data, both the national and state economies continue their slow recovery from the depths of the Great Recession. But is the recovery ending? Read more | Preview

An observant member of today’s society might notice that just about every time they finish their shopping at the mall or grocery store, they receive not only a receipt, but also the opportunity to take a survey. In fact, it seems that everywhere you turn you are asked to take a survey of some sort. Read more | Preview

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It's time again for the Dean A. McGee Awards to honor those who strive to make Downtown a better place. Read more | Preview

To spend a day with Robbie Kienzle is to spend a day exploring the past, present and future of Oklahoma City. As urban development director in the city Planning Department, she has a stake in shaping the city in everything from city parks to public art to rethinking established uses to maximize an area’s success. Read more | Preview

The phone in Kent J. Smith Jr.’s Ohio University office kept ringing. On the other end was a search firm that kept saying he was destined to be Langston University’s next president. Read more | Preview

In 1996, managing partner Frank Nelson helped sink a ton of money into 20,000 square feet of old warehouse space in Bricktown. Read more | Preview

Don Eckhoff played the game for the better part of a decade. Read more | Preview

Former Edmond Mayor Patrice Douglas still remembers when she sat her son down on the bed and told him that Mommy had a new job. Read more | Preview

When Kim Baker first started her job as grant coordinator at the Oklahoma Arts Council, she felt like she was chained to the copy machine. Read more | Preview

Maureen Heffernan comes to the Myriad Gardens on the heels of a $38 million renovation, the first major project since it was built in 1985. Read more | Preview

Don Betz has consulted on such weighty matters as bringing peace to the Middle East. He’s devoted nearly 40 years of his life to higher education, and written and spoken on various topics around the globe.

Jennifer Gooden graduated from Harvard. Read more | Preview

 After years on the market, and multiple brokers attached to the building at one time or another, the Sherman Iron Works Building in Bricktown finally sold April 30 for $897,500. Read more | Preview

While the housing market nationwide has taken a roller-coaster ride in recent years, often with more plunges than ascents in many areas, Oklahoma City consistently has held its own. Read more | Preview

A northwest Oklahoma City apartment complex completed just more than a year ago sold on April 5 for $21.45 million. Read more | Preview

Edmond finished 2011 strong, and city officials hope to continue that momentum this year. Read more | Preview

The Oklahoma County Assessor’s Office has seen a near 200% jump in the number of plats filed and property accounts created in the county last year. Read more | Preview

Neighbors in the Heritage Hills and Mesta Park neighborhoods want to ensure that many of the businesses to their north on N.W. 23rd Street don’t end up to their south. As long as there are no establishments to give blood, worship, buy adult videos, pawn a television, or get a tattoo, neighbors seem willing to see a multifamily development with retail on Walker Avenue, that isn’t even in either neighborhood, to move forward. Read more | Preview

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StoneGate Senior Living, based in Lewisville, Texas, purchased 6.7 acres of land in the ever-expanding NRH Medical Park West in Norman for $1.9 million. Read more | Preview

Richard Tanenbaum, CEO of Gardner Tanenbaum Group, has awarded leasing of his office and industrial properties in Oklahoma City and Tulsa to Sperry Van Ness/William T. Strange & Associates. Read more | Preview

NAI Global, a network of independent commercial real estate firms around the world, including an office in Oklahoma City, has been acquired by C-III Capital Partners LLC for an undisclosed amount. Read more | Preview

The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City is growing. After a groundbreaking May 15, work was set to begin immediately on a 28,000-square-foot expansion, and five new tenants were announced. Read more | Preview

Fans of frozen yogurt can belly up to a new yogurt shop opening May 19 in Edmond. Los Angeles-based chain Red Mango will open its first Oklahoma store at 1585 S. Broadway. It will join more than 170 Red Mango stores around the country. Read more | Preview

An executive needs a wardrobe that fits the job, but for some Oklahoma women, finding the brands they desire have required traveling to the East or West coasts. As a financial executive, Danielle Keogh, owner of Liberté at Classen Curve, plans to keep her day job while operating the boutique to outfit her peers. Read more | Preview

Penn Square Mall is set to receive four new tenants and a new mall manager.

It’s a good thing Deidre Ebrey isn’t in the market for a Ferrari or jewelry from Tiffany & Co.

The Packard Building, 201 N.W. 10th in MidTown, is seeing new life for the first time in years. Read more | Preview

For the record, Randy Hogan has no tenants lined up for a proposed building in Lower Bricktown. But, for the man who helped define that area south of Reno Avenue, he is not denying that he knows who Oklahoma City Thunder player Kevin Durant is, and that the celebrated basketball player has been talking about a restaurant venture he will be a part of in Hogan’s building. Read more | Preview

For any Star Wars fans excited about the opening of Chuy’s, an Austin, Texas-based Tex-Mex chain headed to Norman, thinking it is an homage to the furry Chewbacca, unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the storied Wookiee from the movie franchise. Read more | Preview

It turns out that selling art supplies and picture frames can be lucrative. While the business has made Hobby Lobby CEO and founder David Green a billionaire, he has spread some of that wealth to 15,300 of his employees by paying minimum hourly wages of $13 per hour, a number that brushes close to doubling the minimum wage. Read more | Preview

Neutrality and community: two words echoed by business owners when asked why they set up shop Downtown along Automobile Alley — the once-unlikely strip along Broadway Avenue from roughly N.W. Fourth to N.W. 10th streets — to stake their claim. Read more | Preview

Jim Cowan spent several years leading the Bricktown Association during the area’s renaissance. with that job, which involved constantly being around a young, hip crowd, he always had his finger on the pulse of what was going on.

Tuesday March 6 – 7 p.m.
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1712 S. Kelly Ave.
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President and CEO
Jordan Advertising
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For Marcus Williamson, relationships are everything. And maybe more so than anyone else on the Oklahoma City University campus, the Meinders School of Business director of outreach pays particular attention not only to the message he’s sending out, but the medium he’s using.

What started with drinks among acquaintances has turned into a public relations experiment. Since that initial happy hour at Paseo Grill a few months ago, PR professionals Kathy Oden-Hall, Meredith Lynn, Rob Crissinger, Phil Bacharach and Mary Ann Osko have joined Tracey Zeeck in a nondescript — and hard-to-find — warehouse building in Automobile Alley. Read more | Preview

Nick Preftakes hopes he has found the cure for his big-box blues in south Oklahoma City. Read more | Preview

Jim Gleason started in the sign industry when he was 12 years old, sweeping the floors in his dad’s sign shop in Salina, Kan. He worked for his father for 18 years at Gleason and Sons Signs before eventually coming to the metro area. Read more | Preview

In its third year awarding a communications grant to a nonprofit, Oklahoma City-based Saxum upped its donation to include two groups this year. Read more | Preview

The CD Warehouse store formerly at NW 39 Street and Pennsylvania Avenue moved to French Market Mall, 2850 NW 63, and was rebranded as Movie Exchange.
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When leaders from the U.S., Canada and Mexico convened in 1992 to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement, local pork producers figured trade opportunities soon would expand. Eighteen years later, they’re still waiting. Read more | Preview

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Do you have a great idea for a science and technology project but your wallet is too thin to move forward? The Economic Development Generating Excellence policy board just might be able to help. Read more | Preview

As facilities engineer for XTO Energy, Richard Culmer needed a company that could keep production on track and be easy on the budget. He found both in Oklahoma City firm Flogistix. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma Gas and Electric today announced promising results from approximately 6,000 residential customers who participated in the final year of its two-year demand response study. Read more | Preview

To most people, leaving a job as lobbyist or general counsel for Devon Energy Corp. for a life in the gaming service industry would seem like a big gamble. Read more | Preview

Chad Hodges never had planned a cycling race before the upcoming Oklahoma City Pro-Am Classic. Read more | Preview

For those not planning a week at the beach or a vacanza Italiana this summer, plenty of excursions exist that don’t require passports or layovers. Besides, wouldn’t it be nice to spend your vacation dollars right here at home?
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If you think C-SPAN only shows endless hours of debate and activity on the floor of the U.S. House and Senate, think again. In a push to diversify programming, while still covering every second of congress in action, the network began planning last year for a series of historical features on cities around the country. Oklahoma City made the list. Read more | Preview

When Stephen Koranda accepted the position of executive director of the Norman Convention & Visitors Bureau three years ago, it always amazed him that people would stop by and say how hard it was to find them. Read more | Preview

Today, the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department unveiled findings from a new study showing the economic impact of tourism in Oklahoma. The results were announced at the 2011 Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Tulsa. Read more | Preview

Five stores, two with a distinctly Oklahoma flair, are planned for Will Rogers World Airport. The existing newsstand and gift stores will close Sept. 7 and undergo a $1.7 million renovation. The project is a joint partnership between The Paradies Shops, a national airport retailer, and its local partner, Kambers Gifts and Luggage. Work is set for completion by Thanksgiving. Read more | Preview

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AAA forecasts 31.5 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Labor Day holiday weekend, a 2.4 percent decrease from the 32.3 million people who traveled one year ago. Read more | Preview

Raleigh-Durham, N.C.-based hotel management company Concord Hospitality has signed a contract to manage the 395-room Sheraton Oklahoma City, One N. Broadway, company officials reported July 25. Read more | Preview

Those departing Oklahoma City this summer may need to prepare for longer lines at Will Rogers World Airport due to a spike in travelers. Read more | Preview

Come as you are, but come early if you have a flight to catch at Will Rogers World Airport. With passenger traffic numbers up nearly 7 percent over last year, airport officials are seeing larger crowds, especially in the mornings, and some passengers who have not allotted enough time and ending up missing their flights. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma Mayor Mick Cornett officiated over the ribbon cutting of the $5.8 million, 380-foot SkyDance Bridge April 23 Downtown. Read more | Preview

Ivy Bradford’s career as a travel agent has followed a path different than most. The manager of Prime Time Travel in Edmond got into the business in 1987 and worked through 2000 before taking a break for motherhood. Read more | Preview

AAA Oklahoma anticipates it will come to the aid of 5,800 stranded motorists in Oklahoma during the year-end holiday period, as 787,500 Oklahomans take to the highways for holiday trips between Dec. 23 and Jan. 2, 2012. Read more | Preview

AAA forecasts 91.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home over the upcoming Christmas / New Year’s holiday period, a 1.4 percent increase over year-ago figures. Read more | Preview

In 2000, officials at Will Rogers World Airport ramped up efforts to add nonstop flights from Oklahoma City to destinations on the East Coast, the West Coast and key points in between. Starting with nonstop service to Minneapolis-St. Paul in 2001, the airport has added a number of nonstop flights — including Newark, N.J., and Los Angeles — but lost a few along the way. Read more | Preview

Two percent fewer Oklahomans are predicted by AAA to travel over the Independence Day weekend.
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Flight 6241 will leave Oklahoma City daily at 7:14 a.m. and arrive in San Francisco at 8:50 a.m. The daily return flight will leave San Francisco at 4 p.m. and arrive in Oklahoma City at 9:16 p.m. Of the 66 seats, six will be first class, 28 in economy plus, and 32 in economy. Read more | Preview

Oklahoma City Council members listened to a presentation of the public transportation and parking budget proposal June 6, as director Rick Cain explained what steps need to be taken to improve a lackluster transit system in the metro. Read more | Preview

The Oklahoma City Council approved a measure May 31 to name a proposed downtown street "Oklahoma City Boulevard" by an 8-1 vote. Read more | Preview