Business

Another family-owned business in Shelbyville has drawn the attention of an outside company.

Ledco, the Solomon family’s interior door-manufacturing company for nearly 50 years, has been acquired by Masonite Inc. of Tampa, an international manufacturer of residential and commercial doors with customers in more than 85 countries.

Two of the three local Shell gas stations have been sold, but the new owners have yet to be identified.

An employee at Road Ranger's corporate headquarters confirmed that the stations on Taylorsville Road and Midland Trail have been sold, but said she does not know who the new owners are or how long the two stations will be closed.

A sign on the door at the Taylorsville Road Shell says, "Closed for Inventory," and the clerk inside declined to talk to a reporter.

Christmas shoppers across the country and the world have probably laid eyes on material made in Shelby County without ever realizing it.

If you’ve shopped at Victoria’s Secret, you have probably seen the plastic display shelves containing makeup. Maybe you can recall the plastic open/close sign you see when entering a Big O Tires. Europeans may have seen the giant plastic European-style Santa Claus Lego figure resting atop display shelves of the popular toy.

McDonald's has plans to open a store in Waddy this spring, company officials said.

Jim Frans, director of operations for McDonald's in Shelbyville, said that a new location is expected to open at a new truck stop coming to Waddy.

Love's Truck Stop will be located just off the Interstate 64 and is expected to open sometime between March and June, Frans said.

"The weather will be the determining factor," he said.

Frans said the McDonald's will employ from 40 to 50 people, and that hiring for managers will begin in March.