On November 30, the Turkish American Community Center, located at 1306 E. Fifth St., will hold its official grand opening for local and national government officials and Turkish leaders from around the world. “Official greetings will be followed by dinner and entertainment,” said the center’s president, Islom Shakhbandarov. The Ahiska Turkish community in Dayton has grown over the years. In 2006, only six families from the community lived in Dayton. The Ahiska Turkish Community Center was organized in 2009, and, within three years, 400 families from other states resettled here, Shakhbandarov said.
Chobani Inc. founder and owner Hamdi Ulukaya says a new manufacturing plant should easily push the Greek yogurt brand past $1 billion in annual sales and provide more ammunition for the company against brands like Yoplait and Dannon that are nibbling away at Chobani's leading share. Next week, Chobani plans to open a new 1 million-square-foot plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, that it spent $450 million to get up and running. Paired with its existing plants in Upstate New York, the new plant will allow Chobani to ship more yogurt to more stores, where Mr. Ulukaya said it had been unable to meet demand, as well as come up with new products, like a kids yogurt sold in tubes.
(Brian Fuller, eetimes.com) - SAN JOSE, Calif.--There is an old maxim about company transformations... and then there is the new Maxim. CEO Tunc Doluca and his team have spent five years shaking up what had become a classic three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust old-line analog company, Maxim Integrated Products. They changed up their manufacturing strategy and brought in a manufacturing expert from Intel; replaced the CFO; refocused the business units; tidied up their distribution and supply-chain strategy; and brought in new marketing blood. On top of that, the company got so serious about the word "integrated" that they rebranded the company as Maxim Integrated. 
The Greater Metropolitan Furnishings Association (GMFA) will host its awards dinner and dance Saturday, Dec. 1 honoring three furniture industry leaders. The Howard Liveright Award, given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions in the home furnishings industry goes to Mehmet Y. Bilici. Bilici is the founder and managing partner of Sunset International Trade, a furniture wholesale company located in Paterson, N.J. He is also the owner of Furniture Expo, one of New Jersey's largest furniture showrooms and home to the entire Istikbal catalog. 
