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The $4.2 billion sandwich machine
AdvancePierre Foods made a business out of the minutes other kitchens could not spare. Its journey from a troubled predecessor to Tyson’s $4.2 billion acquisition explains what convenience is really worth.
PAR Excellence makes the shelf do the counting
Hospital supplies have a habit of disappearing from the data before they disappear from the room. PAR Excellence uses weight, software, and a growing collection of specialist tools to close that gap.
TradeGlobal sold the whole journey. Then came the handoffs.
A Cincinnati company put websites, warehouses and customer care under one roof. Its US$168.6 million acquisition exposed how much a global commerce promise depends on local details.
The E.W. Scripps Company bets on free.
A newspaper company built for working people now wants to make live sports easier to watch. The antenna is cheap. The business behind it is anything but.
Worldpay and the sale that almost vanished
A customer can want the ticket, have the money, and still fail to buy it. Worldpay has built a business around what happens in that last second.
Kroger’s next big idea is closer to home
The grocer built a future around robotic warehouses. Its expensive reset reveals the overlooked advantage of a supermarket down the road.
Park Place Parking plays the long game
A parking space can earn money today while the land beneath it waits for tomorrow. Park Place Parking has built a family business around understanding both clocks.
The Agency That Turned a Football Game Into a City’s Press Conference
When the Bengals reached Super Bowl LVI, Game Day did not merely pitch Cincinnati to the press. It built the press a room - and turned a fleeting sports result into a campaign for an entire city.
Swivel Says B2B Growth Breaks at the Hand-Off - Its Fix Is One Revenue System
The Cincinnati consultancy bets that stalled pipeline is usually a wiring problem, not a talent problem. Its RevOS model replaces the agency pile-up with one accountable, full-funnel operating system.
The Agency That Shipped the First Banner Ad - And Then Refused to Die
Organic built the web's first banner ads in the mid-90s, went public at the peak, nearly vanished in the crash, and got bought by Omnicom. Three decades on it is still standing - now a Cincinnati-run agency trying to make advertising both good-looking and accountable.
The Cincinnati Company Betting That Your Employee Newsletter Should Read Like a Feed, Not a Blast
Cerkl Broadcast turns the corporate all-staff email into a personalized feed - one AI-curated digest per employee. Here's how a self-taught coder from Cincinnati built it, who's buying it, and where the whole bet could break.
The 30-Year-Old Phone Company That Quietly Became an AI-Era IT Shop
It started as the technology arm of a regional Bell telephone company. Three decades and a private-equity buyout later, CBTS runs cloud, security, and communications for 3,000-plus businesses - and it wants to be the partner that makes its clients look good.
SugarCreek
SugarCreek spent six decades turning a bacon plant into the backstage kitchen for food brands, retailers and restaurant chains. Its real product is not a label on the shelf - it is repeatability at industrial scale.
Cincom Systems
For 50-plus years Cincom quietly sold the software that runs behind other companies' sales quotes and customer letters. It also kept alive one of computing's most influential programming languages.
The Aruna Project
The Aruna Project is a Cincinnati-based nonprofit athleisure brand that creates lifelong freedom for survivors of sex trafficking through employment supported by holistic care. Founded in 2014 by Ryan and April Berg after time spent in Mumbai's red-light districts, Aruna employs survivor artisans in India and the US to craft premium bags, totes, and hair accessories - with 100% of sales revenue reinvested into freeing, employing, and empowering women. Its 'Freedom Business' model reports an 86% sustained freedom rate versus a 23% industry standard, and its national Aruna Run 5K series mobilizes thousands of runners to 'Run for Her Freedom.'