Dickson County business owner indicted

CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A Dickson County business owner was indicted after an investigation by the Tennessee Department of Revenue. Teresa Lynn McCandless Overton, 57, was charged with one count of theft over $10,000, nine counts of tax evasion and nine counts of destruction and tampering of governmental records related to the filing of false … Read more

Jeep-parent Stellantis launches new EV charging business unit

Jeep- and Chrysler-parent Stellantis is launching a new business unit to encompass its charging and energy management offerings. The unit will manage a service called Free2move Charge to deal in everything from home charging wall boxes to public charging network aggregation, according to the announcement, which said the new service would address “electric vehicle customer … Read more

Billionaire business executive who was working on reducing Chicago’s violent crime is killed in race car crash near Aspen

Jim Crown, an executive and philanthropist who recently announced an effort to rally other business leaders to help fight violent crime in Chicago, died Sunday in a car crash on a racing track in Colorado. He was 70. Crown, a grandson of industrialist Henry Crown and the chief executive of Henry Crown & Co., was … Read more

Family-owned business left to pick up the pieces after vandals cause thousands in damages to equipment, vehicles

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A family-owned Jacksonville tree-trimming business is in a financial bind after vandals caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to their company vehicle and equipment. The husband-and-wife owners of Wicked Outdoors said the company equipment truck and trailer were vandalized despite being kept in a secure location at the Mount Herman Exceptional … Read more

GM leader who expanded fleet business to retire after 39 years

Ed Peper, a long-time General Motors Co. leader who’s the U.S. vice president of the automaker’s new business GM Envolve, is retiring effective Sept. 1 after 39 years with the company. Peper, 61, has led GM Envolve , a new business unit encompassing products, technologies and services that can help its fleet customers, since its … Read more

Minerals Technologies to exit talc business, explores strategic alternatives for assets (NYSE:MTX)

Minerals Technologies ( NYSE: MTX ) said Monday that its unit, Barretts Minerals (BMI), will exit the talc business and explore strategic alternatives, which will include a potential sale of assets. Barretts Minerals, which has active mine sites and claims in Montana and manufacturing facilities in Montana and Texas, had talc net sales of about … Read more