Two companies have joined the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program.

An Oklahoma City company ranked last year in Inc. magazine's Top 500 list of the fastest growing companies said it will add 250 jobs through the state's Quality Jobs program.

SB&D’s Innovation South Awards recognize what we believe are the most innovative programs, initiatives and projects in economic development in the South the previous calendar year. The Innovation Awards honor outstanding achievements by economic development agencies, utilities, public/private partnerships and government initiatives that truly embrace innovation in a way to further job generation and capital investment in the American South. Here are our winners for the 2009 calendar year.

Edmond Medical Center and OU Medical Center will combine and operate under the OU Medical Center license, officials with OU Medical Center said Wednesday.

Founders of an Edmond company that assists other startup and emerging medical device firms with development, marketing and regulatory compliance want to expand into contract manufacturing.

Oklahoma's premier annual aerospace convention, the ninth annual Oklahoma Aerospace Summit and Expo, will be held at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City from June 1 through June 4.

Outstanding leadership. Integrity. Commitment. Executives with these traits overflowed Thursday night in a room filled with the top minds of Oklahoma's business and nonprofit communities at The Journal Record's inaugural Oklahoma's Most-admired CEOs event.

A Georgia-based company that makes private-label tissue products will open a new plant in Oklahoma City in June, the company's first facility in the Southwest.