HONORS
Alan Spitzer, chairman and chief executive officer of Spitzer Management Inc. in Elyria, was nomination for the 2011 Time Dealer of the Year award. The award is sponsored by Time magazine in association with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and in cooperation with the National Automobile Dealers Association.
Quality Electrodynamics LLC in Mayfield received a Tibbetts Award from the National Institutes of Health Small Business Administration for its high-performance, ultra-compact MRI amplifiers and radio frequency coils.
ACQUISITION
Smart Business Network Inc. in Westlake has acquired Wise Group, a Northeast Ohio custom content firm, to expand its Smart Business Content Marketing Division. Wise Group President Tammy Wise will become the vice president of business development at Smart Business Content Marketing.
MILESTONE
JC Power Strategic Communications LLC, a strategic-communications firm in Broadview Heights, will be celebrating its fifth anniversary in March.
PHILANTHROPY
Walter Van Benthuysen, a 1961 advertising graduate of Kent State University and native of Canton, has made a $500,000 philanthropic grant to internships for students in the university's College of Business Administration.