Fairfield-based software technology company Let's Order Online, Inc. has been awarded $200,000 in regional and state incentives to help grow its workforce by at least 10 employees over the next 36 months. Let's Order Online markets a proprietary online customer service and ordering software package to restaurants across the country.

The Let's Order Online incentive package includes $125,000 in funding from the Entrepreneurial Ventures Assistance [EVA] program administered by the Iowa Department of Economic Development. A $75,000 low-interest loan from Regional Economic Development Investments, Inc. program rounded out the package.

 

Agri-Industrial Plastics Company (AIP) will be accepting another 6-layer fuel tank machine in early August to compliment their current machine, doubling the production capacity of fuel tanks for ATV, snowmobile, watercraft, golf cart, lawn & garden and the small to medium sized engine market.

AIP began manufacturing non automotive multilayer fuel tanks in 2005 to meet the more stringent permeation requirements enforced by the EPA in the United States. Since going down this path, their business has now required additional equipment to meet greater demand.

Read the media release here.

This letter to the editor appeared in the May 21, 2009 edition of the Fairfield Ledger.

 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

BUSINESS 34 IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Small Towns, Big Ideas is the result of an intensive, yearlong effort to identify and document the stories of small towns that are surviving -- and, in some cases, thriving -- as hubs of civic and economic activity. The Small Towns, Big Ideas project began in mid-2006, when the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government partnered with the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center to identify small towns that were implementing successful or innovative approaches to community economic development.

Fairfield, Iowa was one of the communities selected because of our unique approach to Entrepreneurship and Downtown development/revitalization. A copy of the Fairfield case study can be downloaded by clicking here. To see what other progressive small towns like ours are doing to improve their community download the entire publication by clicking here.

The publication includes stories about planning and implementing economic development strategies in 45 small towns with populations of fewer than 10,000 residents. Case studies also describe a range of strategies for building local capacity for economic development, including innovative organizational structures, partnerships, leadership development and finance. Most case studies include discussion of more than one strategy. 

FAIRFIELD, (Iowa) - Frank Fritz, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary/Treasurer of Dexter Apache Holdings, Inc. and Jodi Kerr, Firm Principal at TD&T Financial Group, have been appointed position of Director on the Board of Directors of the Fairfield Economic Development Association, Inc. (FEDA).  The two assume the 3-year directorships and replace the retiring Royse Huff and Ross Walker.

Fritz, born in Washington, Iowa assumes a spot on the FEDA Board in his 14^th year with Dexter.  A Coe College graduate, Fritz grew up on a small family farm near the Pleasant Plain and Brighton area.  He relocated to Fairfield in 1994 following 13 years as a staff accountant at McGladrey & Pullen in Cedar Rapids and a year as CFO of Johnson Gas Appliance Company. 

Fritz is a member of the First National Bank of Fairfield, Iowa Board of Directors and is a former director of the Fairfield Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield Golf & Country Club and the Iowa Chapter of the ESOP Association.  He is a member of the St. Mary's Catholic Church, Fairfield Golf & Country Club, and Fairfield Elks Lodge.  He and his wife, Julie, are the parents of a daughter, Samantha, 10.