This year was a big year for central Ohio businesses whether it was new airline service to the West Coast or Amazon considering Columbus for its second headquarters project.
Stores and restaurants closings and new ones opening, a prominent businessman giving up on the Republican Party and a failed bid for Amazon's massive second headquarters project. Add it all up, and 2018 was a big year in business news for central Ohio.
How well do you know central Ohio business? Test your knowledge of this year's events with this year-end quiz.
1. Which celebrity bought a Chevrolet dealership in the Hilltop?
2. What airline will enter the Columbus market in 2019 with nonstop flights to Seattle?
3. What iconic building in Newark is up for sale or lease again?
4. L Brands, the parent of Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works, announced plans to sell or close two brands in 2018. What were they?
5. Columbus caught nationwide attention when it was one of 20 cities selected as finalists for Amazon's massive second headquarters project. What cities beat out Columbus in the competition?
6. What prescription software company plans to relocate its corporate offices to Franklinton?
7. What tech giant is considering joining Facebook and Amazon in developing a data center in New Albany?
8. What Downtown hotel will begin an 27-story expansion to 1,000 rooms in 2019?
9. What two names are competing developers using for a large-scale proposed entertainment complex in the Sunbury area?
10. Sales of electric vehicles in Columbus hit a record this summer. In percentage terms, how many electric vehicles were sold?
11. Ohio became the first state in the country in 2018 to accept what kind of currency to pay taxes?
12. What major Columbus company said it will cut 1,150 jobs, including 350 in Columbus?
13. What startup auto insurance company now has an estimated value of $1 billion?
14. What Columbus company is suing its founder and former owner?
15. Where did Charleys restaurants open its 600th location?
16. What prominent central Ohio family is behind the new marijuana company Green Growth Brands?
17. What fell to record lows in 2018, giving central Ohio home buyers big headaches?
18. Four well-known restaurants that have each served central Ohio for more than 30 years announced they were closing in 2018. What are they?
19. What prominent South Side business that operated for more than a century closed for good and was demolished in 2018?
20. What toy/entertainment venue opened in September at Easton Town Center to the delight of children?
21. What prominent Columbus businessman renounced the Republican Party?
22. What did the Ohio Division of Liquor Control call its pop-up discount liquor store that it tested in October?
23. What 50-year-old bookstore in Linworth expects to close for good?
24. What chain restaurant was forced to temporarily close one of its central Ohio branches after hundreds of customers said they got sick after eating there in July?
25. What direct-sales retailer said it would be moving its distribution center from Columbus to Texas, costing 800 central Ohio workers their jobs?
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Answers:
1. Mark Wahlberg, along with a business partner, bought Bobby Layman Chevrolet.
2. Alaska Airlines will launch service in March.
3. Longaberger Co.'s former headquarters, known as the Big Basket because of its shape, is again on the market after it was bought for $1.2 million in December 2017.
4. L Brands expects to close the sale of its money-losing La Senza brand in January and said in September that it will close its Henri Bendel brand after the holidays.
5. New York City and a Washington, D.C., suburb will split the project. Also, Nashville, Tennessee, picked up a consolation prize by landing an operation center that will come with 5,000 jobs.
6. CoverMyMeds hopes to open the first phase of its new headquarters in 2021 with a second phase to be finished by 2024.
7. Google received approval for state tax incentives for the project this month and in December paid $54 million for 440 acres in New Albany. Amazon already has a data center in the community and Facebook is developing one.
8. The new tower for Hilton Columbus Downtown will add 468 rooms, with the addition to open in early 2022.
9. The dueling developers have chosen Planet Oasis and Arcadia as the names of the project that would include such things as go-kart racing, rock climbing and an e-sports arena.
10. Electric vehicles sales topped 1 percent in June, July and August while sales of plug-in hybrids hit a record in June.
11. Bitcoin can now be used to make payments on 23 types of business taxes. Payments are converted into dollars before being deposited into state accounts.
12. Nationwide will cut 4 percent of its workforce beginning early in 2019.
13. Root has gotten the valuation in just three years of operation.
14. Cheryl & Co. is suing Cheryl Kreuger over her new cookie venture, C. Kreuger's, claiming it produces products similar to Cheryl & Co. Kreuger has countersued.
15. Charleys opened its 600th location in Lancaster in September, buying a site that Chipotle used to test its failed burger concept.
16. The Schottenstein family, known for brands such as DSW and American Eagle, has turned to developing brands around cannabis products, including health and beauty items.
17. The number of homes for sale. U.S. inventories fell year over year for 91 straight months before finally breaking the trend in September.
18. Blue Danube, the Worthington Inn, the Flatiron Bar & Grill and Shaw's in Lancaster.
19. Columbus Castings foundry once made steel castings for rail cars.
20. The two-level, 36,000-square-foot Legoland Discovery Center is the first of kind in Ohio and 11th in North America.
21. L Brands founder Leslie H. Wexner said in September he is now independent.
22. Last Call included assorted bottles of liquor that had been gathering dust in warehouses or that manufacturers discontinued.
23. Village Bookshop, owned by Gary Friedlinghaus since 1983.
24. A Chipotle restaurant in Powell. It was one of what has been a string of food-safety issues that the company has been fighting since 2015.
25. Thirty-One Gifts. The company also said it was moving its corporate offices to the former Bob Evans campus in New Albany.
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