Unit head retires at Cooper Tire

6/6/2006

Dick Stephens has retired from Findlay-based Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. as president, North American Tire Division, after 28 years.

Mannik & Smith Group Inc., Maumee, has been named one of Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms of 2006.

Toledo Children's Hospital is the recipient of eight of about 1,600 national advertising awards, four of them gold, in calendar, patient handbook, TV advertising/series, and radio advertising/series from Healthcare Marketing Report, Atlanta.

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