Veronica A. Hido

Founded in 1982 by Elliot Schlang, Great Lakes Review is an investment research firm located in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm is a division of Wellington Shields & Co. LLC and their ultimate parent is Wellington Shields Holdings LLC. Great Lakes Review provides company analysis and rating services to institutional clients including asset managers, broker/dealers, corporations, financial intermediaries, hedge funds and plan sponsors. Their products include thematics, statistics, individual company reports, company-specific news updates, weekly updates and periodic telephone updates. The firm maintains a buy list that is generally comprised of about 30 mid-cap companies located in the Midwestern region of the US. Great Lakes Review seeks to identify companies with true specialty niches, significant competitive advantages, above-average returns on both sales and equity, self-funding balance sheets with little debt, substantial inside ownership, few institutional shareholders, domestic orientations, constructive labor relations and reasonable price-to-earnings ratios.