Cumberland
County's shopping mall of
cars has what might be considered an empty storefront.

I am responding to your recent piece in "The Dairy Industry
in Central Pennsylvania" (an advertising
supplement to the Central Penn Business Journal, published Jan. 9) to offer an
important extension to the statement about organic milk.

York County-based Graham Packaging Co. today announced it
will acquire a minority stake in the bottle-making company PPI Blowpack Pvt.
Ltd., based in Mumbai, India.

Most of 2008 wasn't shaping up as anything extraordinary for
decorative engraver Susquehanna
Glass.

The Quigley Corp. plans to close its hard-candy
manufacturing plant in Elizabethtown
by summer, company officials said today.

The Hershey Co. will close two factories in California that make
specialty chocolates for its subsidiary Artisan Confections Co., according to
the company.

BlackBerry Storm not an iPhone Killer

Looks like the BlackBerry Storm ain't doin' so hot.

Today's
Wall Street Journal reports that the supposed "Apple Killer" not only
has received a bunch of user complaints, but it's vastly underselling
the iPhone: 500,000 in the first month vs. 2.4 million iPhone 3Gs in
the first full quarter. After a $100 million marketing push, wow, that
stinks.

For 30 years, I've listened to "thought leaders"
anticipating the evolution of the U.S. economy from manufacturing to
services and, more recently, information technology.

TBB Global Logistics Inc., a third-party logistics-management firm, has partnered with Samuel Shapiro & Company Inc., a transportation-consulting firm, according to the companies.

Yellow Transportation and Roadway Express, trucking divisions
of YRC Worldwide Inc., will layoff and transfer about 300 people at their
facilities in East Hempfield Township,
Lancaster County, according to the state
Department of Labor and Industry.

Graham
Packaging Chief Executive Officer Warren D. Knowlton will resign and be
succeeded on Jan. 1 by Mark S. Burgess, now the chief financial officer, the
York County-based packaging company announced today.

The commercial-packaging industry took a big hit in 2008.

York-based Dentsply International Inc. will promote Christopher Clark to
president.

Harley-Davidson Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer
James L. Ziemer will retire in 2009, the company announced.

Harrisburg-based D&H Distributing Company Inc.'s
co-presidents are among the Top 25 Executives in 2008, according to "Everything
Channel," a technology-distribution trade publication.