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• Brunet-García Advertising Inc. promoted Aerien Kloske to studio manager. In addition to her duties as senior art director, Kloske will take on the responsibilities of managing day-to-day operations in Brunet-García’s creative studio. 

• Morris Publishing Group LLC reported a decline in operating income and revenue in 2011, according to its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Augusta, Ga.-based Morris is the publisher of The Florida Times-Union and 11 other daily newspapers. Total revenue fell 7.4 percent to $225.2 million. Advertising revenue in Jacksonville, its largest market, fell by $5 million, or 10.9 percent. Morris’ operating income fell 30 percent to $10.9 million. Final net income was $24,000. Morris also said it reduced the number of full-time equivalent employees by 217 last year, leaving it with 1,454 full-time and 268 part-time employees companywide.

• Downtown advocates Ed Burr and Don Shea are scheduled to talk about Mayor Alvin Brown’s proposed Downtown Investment Authority at a members-only Urban Land Institute North Florida meeting at 8 a.m. April 11 at The Haskell Co. building along Riverside Avenue. Burr is a former chair of JAX Chamber and active in its Downtown efforts. Shea is executive director of the Jacksonville Civic Council and an adviser to Brown about Downtown strategies. For information about the ULI event, call 486-8256.

• The unemployment rate in the Jacksonville metropolitan area, consisting of Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties, fell from 9.1 percent in January to 8.8 percent in February, reported the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. That’s the lowest it’s been since April 2009, when the area’s unemployment rate was 8.7 percent. The jobless rate for Duval County fell from 9.5 percent to 9.2 percent last month, it said. The department also said that the number of non-agricultural jobs in the five-county region rose by 3,600 from February 2011 through February 2012 to 591,000, a 0.6 percent growth rate.

 

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