BEAVERCREEK -- The Greene is seeing its first retail closure.

Soma Intimates has alerted customers and employees that it is closing its doors at The Greene County shopping complex.

"It's part of a national closure of these stores," said Michael Duffey, a spokesman for The Greene.

Ernest Bannister, a spokesman for Fort Myers, Fla.-based Chico's FAS Inc., deferred questions to a colleague, who wasn't available. Chico's owns 72 Soma Intimates stores and one Soma Intimates outlet store, according to the company's Web site.

Cafe Istanbul closed at the Greene in 2007, with another restaurant later opening in its place.

-- Staff report

Ann Taylor LOFT store to close at Dayton Mall

MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County -- The Ann Taylor LOFT store at the Dayton Mall is slated to close.

The LOFT concept is owned and operated by Ann Taylor Stores Corp., which said it plans to close the Dayton Mall store at the end of the month.

The store opened in 2006 in the Village at Dayton Mall.

In January 2008, Ann Taylor said it would close 117 stores between 2008 and 2010 as part of a wider restructuring.

Ann Taylor Stores also operates a LOFT store at The Greene in Beavercreek.

Mike Duffey, a spokesman for The Greene, said Ann Taylor LOFT has a long-term lease and executives for The Greene don't anticipate the store leaving.

A spokeswoman for Ann Taylor said the company has announced no other store closings in Ohio.

-- Tim Tresslar, staff writer

Comair, Delta slip in on-time arrivals

Comair and Delta Air Lines, which both fly from Dayton International Airport, were among the airline industry's poorest performers in the rate of on-time flight arrivals in November 2008, the federal government reported on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

Comair had an overall on-time arrival rate of 77.1 percent and Delta's rate was 77.4 percent, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. That compared with an overall on-time arrival rate across 19 major airlines of 83.3 percent in November, up from 80 percent a year earlier but down from 86 percent in October 2008.

Northwest Airlines, which also flies from Dayton, was third-best among major carriers nationally in November with an on-time arrival rate of 86.7 percent.

United Airlines ranked fourth with a rate of 85.51 percent. Pinnacle Airlines, which operates Delta and Northwest flights from Dayton, ranked sixth with a rate of 84.90 percent and American Airlines was seventh, at 84.40 percent.

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