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Securing top place in highly competitive awards, the Hamilton-built interactive, immersive experience directly virtualized international facilities through insightful and engaging content for Dematic. The high-performing digital platform featured live support and virtual tours in eight different languages, generating critical sales leads.

NEW YORK – Dematic’s innovative and immersive Virtual Tech Tours struck national gold this spring with the multinational technology company pulling down the top Gold Stevie® Award Winner in the 2022 American Business Awards® (Web Achievement – Manufacturing Industry) and the 2022 top Platinum Hermes Creative Award (Strategic Marketing Campaigns: Interactive Brand Experience).
These major awards were complemented with the facts that Dematic previously won a German Stevie Award in the Best Event Marketing Experience category, as well as the German Brand Award in the Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation – Brand Communication – User Experience category.
Virtualizing two major international facilities, the multi-award winning Dematic platform digitally stitches together 46 panoramic 360-degree photos with 36 product and content videos for a high-impact, first-of-its-kind interactive online experience, all coupled with live digital tours (in multiple languages) by members of the Dematic international sales and marketing teams.
WASHINGTON – Growing momentum: a proposed $11 million housing development and additional projects set before the Plan Commission of the City of Washington May 11 “reflect a robust strategic trend emerging for new housing developments in Daviess County,” said Bryant Niehoff, executive director of the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation.

A proposed plan for an 11-acre development presented by Kerstiens Development Inc. at the Plan Commission meeting includes the possible construction of a variety of new single-family homes, condominiums, and market rate apartments. This proposed Kerstiens development follows on a $14.5 million project by Simplified Developments LLC to build more than 140 new apartment units on the east side of the city of Washington.
Designation “represents the most exclusive list of North American exhibit providers in the industry and serves as the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for high-performing top exhibit producers.
INDIANAPOLIS – Hamilton, a national full-service event marketing agency, scored preferred industry designation as a “Find It – Top 40” exhibit professional by EXHIBITOR magazine in April. Following its prior 2021 success in being named in the same exclusive category, Hamilton strategically repeated its national selection in 2022 by excelling in “an exhaustive evaluation process” of nearly 500 applications from exhibit houses, according to the publication’s editor, Travis Stanton.
The “Find It – Top 40” designation serves two purposes: “to spotlight the best exhibit producers in the industry, while also providing a valuable resource for exhibit managers searching for new potential partners,” said Stanton.
Now in its fifth year, the program “represents the most exclusive list of North American exhibit providers in the industry,” added Stanton. Companies like Hamilton who were chosen, receive the immediate benefit of the industry’s “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval when it comes to the companies behind many of the most successful trade show stands in the world,” the editor continued.
The designation puts Hamilton on a rarified level of high-performing companies. “Being chosen for this national recognition is both immensely gratifying and humbling at the same time,” said Jason Weddle, Hamilton’s Chief Executive Officer. “The designation reflects the superb capacity of our outstanding team of designers and builders, and it also shows the depth of what a company can achieve who relentlessly commits to doing whatever it takes to elevate customer service and performance.”
Paoli Community School Corporation will be the first to receive services through the new initiative.
PAOLI, Indiana – Health care access at Orange County schools will reach a new dimension through a new partnership between Southern Indiana Community Health Care (SICHC) with area elementary, middle and high schools to establish in-school telehealth clinics. The new telehealth clinics, beginning with Throop Elementary School, will allow students to be seen by medical professionals through a secure link using digital diagnostic instruments.
“This is a great advancement for our schools, as our students in need of health services can now been seen privately by medical professionals in the school nurse office instead of having to be transported to a doctor’s office or have their parents pick them up during school hours,” said Greg Walker, Superintendent of the Paoli Community School Corporation. “This helps both keep students learning in classrooms and doesn’t result in unnecessary disruption that affects families.”
WASHINGTON – Sporting new logos, fresh content, and onsite video segments, the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation, Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau launched their first phase of a unified marketing and information outreach in March. New websites for the three county organizations and an overall unified brand and website – We Are Daviess County – are now online.
“All three entities have long had an online presence, but this new unified approach and content will help better tell the Daviess County story and share what our community has to offer,” said Bryant Niehoff, executive director the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation.
The rebranding and development project involved business and community leaders and stakeholders from across the county.
The new strategic marketing effort included the development of a fourth website, located online at https://wearedaviesscounty.com/. The website features an original video production where local business professionals and residents tell their story about why they live and work in Daviess County.
Note: this release is available nationally (with downloadable images) at: https://www.prweb.com/releases/2022/03/prweb18590213.htm
Coverage: https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/daviess-county-launches-unified-marketing-campaign
ELLETTSVILLE (Indiana) — Today a nationally recognized Top 100 Broadband Company, Smithville is celebrating its 100th year in business in 2022. “We have come a long way from the days when Indiana quarries who were cutting limestone for the Empire State Building and Washington, D.C. federal offices required then-state-of-the art telephone connectivity,” said Darby A. McCarty, Smithville chairman and CEO. “Today we have gone from connecting quarries to connecting $100 million technology parks, large hospitals, government facilities, manufacturing plants, and more, including many small businesses who need fast and reliable broadband.”
“State Champion” for rural broadband

“Smithville for many years has been a state champion for rural-based fiber broadband, serving Hoosier residents and businesses alike across Indiana,” said Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch. “Smithville’s history is a history of innovation, and we look forward to further achievements and service in the years to come.”
Initially begun as a rural telephone exchange, family-owned Smithville expanded over the years to become the first commercial telecommunications company to offer innovative fiber-based connectivity to schools and commercial companies.
Town Council supporting new 47 acres Commerce Park at Brownsburg Raceway development to promote R&D, manufacturing for the autosports industry.
BROWNSBURG, Indiana – In what is described as an “exciting signature project,” Garmong Development has launched the development of “The Commerce Park at Brownsburg Raceway,” anticipating more than $100 million in new economic development and capital investments to occur within the development, according to Dan Zuerner, Vice President of Garmong.
The 47-acre project, located adjacent to both the Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and the Ronald Reagan Parkway, is “virtually shovel ready” and enjoys the enthusiastic formal support of the Brownsburg Town Council, said Deb Cook, Town Manager of the Town of Brownsburg.
“The time is right to build this,” she continued, noting that the project reflects and supports the town’s formal comprehensive and economic development plans. “This powerfully advances Brownsburg’s high-profile commitment to growing and supporting the autosports industry and will help attract new companies.”
Coverage links:
(Top Story) https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/100m-project-planned-for-brownsburg
http://www.prweb.com/releases/garmong_development_brownsburg_raceway_project_expected_to_create_100_million_in_economic_development_capital_investments_in_central_indiana/prweb18503718.htm
WASHINGTON – A two-phase $14.5 million housing project entered into the final stages of planning Feb. 7 and is now expected to bring 144 new market rate apartment units to the east side of the city Washington, according to Bryant Niehoff, executive director of the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation. Details of the project, which has been a year in planning, were recommended by the Washington Redevelopment Commission and will now go to the City Council for final consideration of key elements.

“This is a very positive development for Daviess County, as it will create capacity for our local workforce to grow and step into jobs that are both available and being created in the community,” said Niehoff. “The ROI Indiana Uplands housing study conducted two years ago noted that more market rate housing was needed to promote economic growth and job creation here, so this represents an important step forward.”
The $14.5 million project will build six apartment buildings offering 1,000-1,200 sq. ft. apartments in 1-3 bedroom configurations. “These will be excellent residences for professionals, young families, and individuals of all ages looking for a place to grow,” said Niehoff.
NOTE: Coverage from this press release appeared at https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/washington-seeks-new-housing-options
https://www.washtimesherald.com/news/14-5-million-housing-project-planned-for-daviess-county-market-rate-apartments-expected-to-boost/article_faa054a2-88e2-11ec-ac6b-d7c979c82978.html