VOL. 38, NO. 35 AUGUST 28 - SEPTEMBER 3, 2017 On the rise Source Lunch Tremont expects Fred Cummings, to get a new apartment president of complex. Page 5 Elizabeth Park Capital The List Management Page 23 Cleveland’s highest-paid CLEVELAND BUSINESS athletes Page 17 SPORTS BUSINESS MANUFACTURING Staying social is part of the game Timken Northeast Ohio’s pro athletes haven’t shied away from showing their personalities on social, and those interactions buys into are becoming increasingly important to growing their overall brands — especially for LeBron James. Pages 10-16 products, markets By DAN SHINGLER
[email protected] @DanShingler e Timken Co. is on a tear, and it’s far from nished. “In the last 12 months, we’ve actu- ally completed six acquisitions, which is by far the most we’ve ever done in a one-year period,” said Richard Kyle, CEO of the North Can- ton-based bearings and power trans- mission company. e company has been buying its way into new markets, new product lines and onto the supplier lists of new customers with its string of pick- ups, Kyle said. It’s a strategy he said will continue, because it’s working. Take the last three acquisitions the company has completed, all of them done since April, when it announced it was buying Michigan-based Tor- sion Control Products. SEE TIMKEN, PAGE 21 Companies’ patience is paying o By RACHEL ABBEY McCAFFERTY
[email protected] @ramccaerty Crain’s Northeast Ohio’s public manufac- turing companies have been doing pretty well in recent months. Some of this, of course, can be at- tributed to an improved economy.