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Fleet Feet Sports, Syracuse co-owner recognized
DeWITT — When Ellen Griffin, co-owner of the Fleet Feet Sports, Syracuse franchise, received her entrepreneurship award at the recent WISE Symposium, she told the attendees the local franchise had really evolved over the past 13 years. “I decided that we’re not in the running-specialty business, we’re in the changing-lives business,” Griffin says, reiterating her […]
RIT providing Lean Six Sigma training for Crouse & Welch Allyn workers, EMS providers
SYRACUSE — The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is again providing Lean Six Sigma training to a group of employees from Crouse Hospital, engineers from Welch Allyn, and regional emergency-medical service (EMS) providers. The training at Crouse started the week of April 15. The training and performance-improvement collaboration, which Crouse launched in 2012 with RIT
New dental practice opens in downtown Syracuse
SYRACUSE — Two Syracuse dentists, Tyler W. Mead and Christopher J. Zimmerman have teamed up to form a new dental practice, dubbed Downtown Dental Syracuse, P.C. The office of Downtown Dental Syracuse is in the University Building at 120 E. Washington St., in the same location of a dental practice formerly known as Zimmerman’s Downtown
Baker named outreach coordinator for Ithaca Commons project
ITHACA — The city of Ithaca and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) announced the recent hire of Tammy Baker as outreach coordinator for the Ithaca
Destiny to get eight new stores in deal with international retail group
SYRACUSE — Destiny USA announced today that it would get eight new stores this year from retailers that are new to the United States. The
BAE Systems to provide propulsion system for Quebec buses
ENDICOTT — BAE Systems on Wednesday announced it will provide its hybrid-propulsion system on 475 Nova hybrid-electric buses for the Association du transport urbain du
Tax credit boosts Anaren’s fiscal third-quarter earnings
DeWITT — Anaren, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANEN) earned $5.3 million, or 41 cents per share, during its fiscal third quarter that ended March 31. That was
Greater Binghamton Chamber Expo 2013 ropes in a good crowd
BINGHAMTON — People lassoing a cow and walking around in cowboy hats are just a couple of the interesting things visitors saw at Thursday’s 26th
Currier Plastics close to completing expansion project
AUBURN — Currier Plastics, Inc., a custom blow-molding and injection-molding manufacturer, is “90 percent complete” with an expansion project that started back in October. That’s
Brown & Brown advises clients on health-care reform, adds employees
SYRACUSE — Brown & Brown Empire State, a unit of Florida–based Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO), has added employees to its Syracuse office in the past nine months. And the firm is also guiding its employee-benefits clients on dealing with the national health-care reform law. The Central New York Business Journal (CNYBJ) spoke separately
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