HAMILTON, Ohio—The U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency has approved MOMS by Odor­Xit as a dis­in­fec­tant, con­clud­ing it is effec­tive for killing not only bac­te­ria, includ­ing the often deadly MRSA bac­te­ria, but also such viruses as the influenza virus run­ning ram­pant in the United States, the Her­pes Sim­plex Type I, and many other viruses that affect humans and ani­mals, includ­ing Parvo Virus.

The EPA cer­ti­fied MOMS (Mold Odor Mildew Smoke San­i­tizer) as a “high-level dis­in­fec­tant” effec­tive against all types of organ­isms, includ­ing bac­te­ria, viruses and endospores. MOMS does not allow organ­isms to mutate, it pen­e­trates biofilm, and kills Legionella’s bac­terium. It also kills Staph A, the influenza A virus, the E. coli bac­terium, aspergillus fun­gus, sal­mo­nella enter­ica, feline cal­civirus, and many other microbes on any hard non-porous sur­face. Read more

Cincin­nati, OH (Jan­u­ary 8, 2013) – Skilled Care Phar­macy, Inc. (“Skilled Care”), a lead­ing insti­tu­tional phar­macy focused on senior liv­ing providers located in Mason, OH, is pleased to announce the for­ma­tion of a part­ner­ship with, and an invest­ment by, Link·age Ven­tures, Inc. (“Link·age”), a pri­vate equity firm focused on invest­ing in lead­ing com­pa­nies that pro­vide prod­ucts, ser­vices and tech­nol­ogy to the aging marketplace.

The trans­ac­tion, which was agreed to on Decem­ber 31, 2012, enables Link·age to own a sig­nif­i­cant equity posi­tion in Skilled Care and to part­ner with Skilled Care in grow­ing and guid­ing the com­pany to future suc­cess.  The infu­sion of long-term cap­i­tal by Link·age will be used to posi­tion the com­pany for growth and to accel­er­ate the adop­tion of new tech­nolo­gies, such as remote dis­pens­ing. Read more

CINCINNATI and DAYTON, Ohio—Sev­eral attor­neys from Faruki Ire­land & Cox P.L.L. have been rec­og­nized for their note­wor­thy tal­ents in law in the 2013 edi­tion of Ohio Super Lawyers mag­a­zine. Char­lie Faruki has been selected as one of the top 10 lawyers in Ohio and one of the top five lawyers in Cincin­nati by the Ohio Super Lawyer poll. He has made the top 10 list con­sec­u­tively, since the poll began. Part­ners Jeff Ire­land, Jeff Cox, Ron Raether and Dan Don­nel­lon were also named Ohio Super Lawyers for 2013. Brian Wright and Andy Reitz were again named as Ohio Ris­ing Stars.

Super Lawyers is a rat­ing ser­vice of out­stand­ing lawyers from more than 70 prac­tice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recog­ni­tion and pro­fes­sional achieve­ment. The selec­tion process is multi-phased and includes inde­pen­dent research, peer nom­i­na­tions and peer eval­u­a­tions. Ris­ing Star rec­og­nizes the top up-and-coming attor­neys in the state — those who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been prac­tic­ing for 10 years or less. Super Lawyers mag­a­zine is pub­lished in all 50 states and reaches more than 13 mil­lion read­ers. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.superlawyers.com. Read more

DAYTON, Ohio— Faruki Ire­land & Cox P.L.L. (www.ficlaw.com) has again been included on the short list of firms in the run­ning for “Firm of the Year” in Ohio, along with only six other firms in the state. FI&C is listed in the cat­e­gory of “Highly Rec­om­mended” in Ohio, with Charles Faruki addi­tion­ally listed as a “Local Lit­i­ga­tion Star”. Read more

CINCINNATI and COLUMBUS, Ohio—SoMoLend (www.somolend.com), a lead­ing debt-based crowd­fund­ing plat­form designed to match small busi­ness bor­row­ers with investors look­ing to make a return on invest­ment, announces a new part­ner­ship with the Colum­bus Cham­ber. SoMoLend will be the Chamber’s first rec­om­men­da­tion for crowd­fund­ing and fea­tured on the access to cap­i­tal sec­tion of the Cham­ber website.

“We are really look­ing for­ward to work­ing with the Colum­bus Cham­ber. This region has a tremen­dous small busi­ness com­mu­nity. Our goal is to help edu­cate small busi­nesses about crowd­fund­ing, and illus­trate how our plat­form can fuel eco­nomic growth in cen­tral Ohio by help­ing entre­pre­neurs get access to the fund­ing they need to sus­tain their oper­a­tions,” said Cheryl Stamm, VP of Sales. Read more