Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announces details of the Ohio Business Profile program

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced last week the Ohio Business Profile program will feature businesses that help power Ohio throughout the month of April. Ohioans daily rely on many different power sources including, coal, natural gas, nuclear power, petroleum and renewable energy. The state’s natural gas and crude oil industry provides over 193,000 direct and indirect jobs each year and is responsible for more than $700 million a year in Ohio salaries. From 2010 to 2016, Ohio saw a 30.8 percent increase in the number of newly-registered businesses with 2016 being the seventh-consecutive record-breaking year for new businesses in the state.