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Iams headquarters moving from Vandalia to Mason

Vandalia Mayor Bill Loy (left) and Jeffrey C. Hoagland, city manager, discuss the decision by Iams to leave Vandalia for Mason during a Thursday, May 28, news conference at the Vandalia Municipal Building.

Staff photo by Chris Stewart Vandalia Mayor Bill Loy (left) and Jeffrey C. Hoagland, city manager, discuss the decision by Iams to leave Vandalia for Mason during a Thursday, May 28, news conference at the Vandalia Municipal Building.

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Staff photo by Ron Alvey Iams is moving their headquarters from their current Vandalia location on Poe Ave. to Mason.

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“P&G agreed to keep Iams headquarters here in Dayton for at least four years, and stayed for 10,” Mathile said in a prepared statement. “The leadership of P&G Pet Care more than abided by its commitment to my family, our employees and to the Dayton region.”

Selling the Iams business allowed Mathile and his family during the years since then to support local nonprofits through the Mathile Family Foundation and community programs through the Mathile Community Fund, he said.

In turn, the purchase gave P&G a premium pet-food brand to add to its broad array of consumer product brands that include Crest toothpaste, Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, Pringles snack chips, Bounty paper towels, Charmin bathroom tissue and Pantene hair care products.

“The pet food category remains attractive to P&G,” the company said. “It is large, growing and fits well within the company’s core strengths.”

Staff writer Eric Schwartzberg contributed to this story.

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As Queen said 'Another one bites the dust.' It is little wonder that Iams would want to leave the hostile business environment that Montgomery County Commissioners and the Mayor of Dayton have created for the far greener pastures that Mason and Warren County are to businesses.
Time to shake up Montgomery County leadership and also vote out Rhine McLin. What happens in Dayton doesn't stay in Dayton, it spreads throughout the region.

Gwen
1:13 AM, 5/31/2009

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This isn't just a Vandalia problem (actually Vandalia has done a very good job of keeping Iams around this long with the armpit of Ohio just to the south of it). It's more of a Dayton problem. Dayton wasn't that bad 10 years ago. I hate to blame everything on politics, but it seems that the last 8 years have been some of the worst for Dayton. I think that this election, I'm voting against Rhine Mclin. Hopefully, we can get someone in there who has actually owned a business.

Bob
10:37 PM, 5/29/2009

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Once again, another prominent business with a solid payroll says "Goodbye Dayton" ( I know, it's Vandalia!)while our so-called leaders wring their hands and did nothing over the years to keep it. Any bets on how soon NCR is out-a-here? Then we're left with the remains of Lexis/ Nexis & WPAFB to keep this all going. fat chance. I don't think anybody in Dayton / Montgomery County knows anything about economic development; there's no evidence of it.

Down on Dayton
5:42 PM, 5/29/2009

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I personally believe Iams as a company needs to be shut down. I'm a member of PETA and their undercover investigation of the company prooved nothing except how they treat their some 70 "test dogs." Let's just say I won't EVER buy Iams after seeing those pictures.

Allison
4:30 PM, 5/29/2009

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Dayton wasted millions of dollars on the "largest fountain in the world". I guess they found out that squirting water into the air has some inborn limitations. I still can hardly believe they spent that much money with so little engineering. I guess engineering is dead in Dayton. The Wright brothers would be ashamed. Stupid is as stupid does, Forest.

Flo
12:40 PM, 5/29/2009

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