Home building index signals recovery from recession's depths

Home building index signals recovery from recession's depths A housing market index that surveys home builders nationwide and measures the health of the industry is at its highest level since June 2007, but a visit last week with David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, and Walt Hibner, executive director of the Home Builders Association of Dayton, shed some light on just how catastrophic the industry's last four to five years have been. 4 billion global technology firm based in ner said the Miami Valley's home-construction business mirrored the national industry's 70 percent drop, although membership in the local organization dropped 35 percent instead of by nearly half. Teradata has the world's happiest data warehousing customers, according to a company news release. Brewer formerly headed communications for NCR Corp. At NCR, Brewer served as director of community relations, vice president of change management and communications for continuous improvement and vice president of corporate communications for the $5. She will be based at the federal utility's Knoxville headquarters and will be paid $235,000 a year, according to knoxnews. "We ranked Teradata highest for the second year based on its technology leadership of all vendors, due to the its thoroughly tested ability to deliver a foundation for a wide range of business analytics. MillerCoors' Trenton brewery employs about 550 people. But Chelsey also notes that while most of the foreign investment mostly involves Japanese auto industry manufacturers and suppliers, Montgomery County's largest private employer is a United Kingdom firm: LexisNexis is owned by Reed Elsevier and employs approximately 3,400 people in Miamisburg. My colleague Chelsey Levingston reports elsewhere in these pages today that foreign investment, especially Japanese foreign investment, is a significant piece of our local economies. Home building index signals recovery from recession's depths Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 01/04/2012