Business briefs for August 8, 2002

Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002 | 10:57 a.m.

National ad manager named

Karen Grover has been named national advertising manager for the Las Vegas Sun and Review-Journal.

Grover will be responsible for handling all of the national advertising accounts for the Review-Journal, the Sun and all niche publications. Her accounts include national automotive, financial institutions, movie studios, pharmaceutical companies, travel and other national organizations advertising in the newspapers.

Grover has been at the Review-Journal for 10 years. Before accepting this position she was the major accounts executive in retail advertising. She has been handling the advertising accounts of department stores -- Dillards, Macy's and Robinsons May -- grocery stores, drug stores and movie theatres, currently advertising with the newspapers. Prior to this she held the position of co-op coordinator and retail account executive.

Grover has an extensive background in advertising. She moved to Las Vegas in 1979 to open Ethel M Chocolates and worked for them for nine years. Starting as a candy maker, she worked her way up to marketing and sales manager where she won awards for her marketing ideas. She also worked as a sales representative for the Las Vegas Yellow Pages.

UNLV soliciting nominations

Nominations are being accepted for the Nevada Business Hall of Fame by UNLV's College of Business.

Business leaders who have contributed to the economic prosperity of the state or who have brought positive recognition to Nevada are being sought for induction into the Hall of Fame, which was launched last year with the induction of William "Si" Redd, E. Parry Thomas and Steve Wynn.

Nomination forms are available at www.unlv.edu/Colleges/Business/Development/ or by calling the school. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 9.

Firm sues AOL Time Warner

LOS ANGELES -- EMI Group filed suit against AOL Time Warner Wednesday, claiming the world's largest media company has been playing songs on its Turner Broadcasting network and America Online Internet service without paying for them.

The dispute pits the owners of two of the major recording companies against each other at a time when they are working together with the rest of the recording industry to fight against copyright violations by various online operations.

EMI's publishing unit contends that AOL Time Warner is illegally using songs for promotional purposes from "The Wizard of Oz," "Singin' in the Rain," and other classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies.

The suit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York, seeks unspecified monetary damages and injunctive relief.

1,500 jobs cut

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Champion Enterprises Inc. says it is cutting 1,500 jobs and closing 71 facilities because of a continuing slump in the demand for manufactured homes.

The job cuts amount to 15 percent of Champion's work force, the company said Thursday. It also is closing 64 retail sales centers, or 35 percent of the total, and seven homebuilding plants, or 15 percent.

Champion is one of the nation's largest producers of manufactured housing. Nationwide, industry sales have dropped from 373,000 in 1998 to 193,000 in 2001.