Weekly business briefing (Sept. 25)
Open house
Knipp’s, a provider of automotive appearance products at 1324 E. Harry, will host an open house from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday to mark its 40th anniversary. The event will include barbecue, door prizes and a small car show. The phone number is 316-265-7910.
New name
PKHLS Architecture in El Dorado has changed its name to Gravity Works Architecture. The firm remains under the ownership of Vince Haines, Lester Limon and David Stewart. The phone number is 316-321-4774 and the website is gravityworks-architecture.com.
Moved
The Kansas Credit Union Association has moved to 2544 N. Maize Court, Suite 100. The phone number remains 316-942-7965.
New service
CrossFirst Bank has formed an international banking department. It has hired Reta Penington, Kent Patterson and Heidi Walkup to operate the new department.
Recognized
Wayne Reed, former president of Bennington Oil Co. in Minneapolis, Kan., was awarded the 2014 PMCA Distinguished Service Award by members of the Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association of Kansas at the group’s annual convention earlier this month.
Charity
Textron Aviation funded and provided nearly 500 employee volunteers to build a Wichita Habitat for Humanity home in the 1200 block of North Poplar.
Verizon’s Hopeline awarded an $8,000 grant to support the Heartland Campus Safety Summit’s first Pre-Summit Bystander Intervention Education Workshop, which will fund a six-hour training session on intervening to prevent domestic violence for 100 ROTC cadets from Kansas and Missouri colleges and universities. The training will be held at Johnson County Community College.
Have a new business, name change, new location or award to share? Send announcements to Jerry Siebenmark at jsiebenmark@wichitaeagle.com. Include a contact name and phone number. For business openings, please also include a street address, phone number and operating hours and days.
This story was originally published September 24, 2014 at 2:44 PM with the headline "Weekly business briefing (Sept. 25)."