Robert D’Loren, chairman and CEO of Xcel, said he's excited about the technology available to help the new Longaberger that was not available when he was a Longaberger board member in 2006-2008.

After riding a wave of popularity for its collectible baskets for nearly a decade, the Longaberger Company has announced it is going out of business.. In a message sent to salespeople, published ...

The Longaberger basket empire, once a $1 billion company with more than 8,000 employees and 70,000 sales associates, slowly unraveled in the nearly two decades since its founder's death.

Previous coverage Oct. 13, 2009: Longaberger Co. rehiring 50 basket-makers to make NFL and collegiate-themed baskets Feb. 26, 2009: Longaberger basket company lays off almost 300 NEWARK, Ohio ...

The rise. 1973: Dave Longaberger starts JW’s Handwoven Baskets in a small Dresden shop, with five weavers, and later changes the business name to The Longaberger Company. 1981: The first ...

NEWARK, Ohio - The Longaberger Co. basket company said it will call back about 60 basket makers it laid off earlier this year to help build inventory before the holidays. The nation's largest ...

The Big Basket is emptying. The Longaberger Co. is moving the remaining staff at its Newark headquarters — also known as the Big Basket building — to office space at the basketmaker's manufacturing ...

Longaberger Co., famous for its baskets, has gone out of business after years of decline. The company sent a note to its sales consultants Friday saying "Longaberger, at this time, has ceased ...

COSHOCTON, Ohio, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Bonnie Jean Gist Longaberger, the matriarch of the Longaberger basket-weaving company, has died in Ohio at the age of 100, the company announced. Chief Executive ...

NEWARK, Ohio — Nineteen years ago, 225 employees of The Longaberger Co. couldn't wait to enter their new workplace, a $32 million, seven-story replica of the company's Medium Market Basket that ...

A development firm that has done work throughout the Dayton area will be re-purposing the iconic basket-shaped Longaberger Co. building. Coon Restoration and Sealant Inc., based in Louisville near ...