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Mohawk Valley native launches gift product with ‘Beekman Boys’
Mohawk Valley native Michelle Roberts has a new product that she hopes will help her business take flight with a little help from some entrepreneurs and reality TV stars in Sharon Springs. On Valentine’s Day, Roberts launched a gift line called Messenger Birds, which features a handcrafted ceramic bird with a unique feature. Instead of […]
Small-business optimism slips in March, ending six-month rise
Optimism waned among small-business owners in March, according to a monthly survey showing that owners who had been warming to their future prospects suddenly took a less rosy view of future hiring and sales. The Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) slipped 1.8 points in March to 92.5. The
Q1 consumer confidence up sharply in Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton
Consumer confidence sprung up in Syracuse, Utica, and Binghamton in the first quarter of 2012, as consumers in all nine of New York’s metropolitan statistical
Binghamton Airport lands new ground handling service
BINGHAMTON — The Greater Binghamton Airport has a new ground handling service. Eagle Ground Handling, American Eagle’s ground handling business, won a contract to handle
Nirvana lands SBA loan for new equipment
BOONVILLE — Nirvana, Inc. will receive a $4.3 million Small Business Administration loan to expand the business and create 60 new jobs. The bottled-water company
Binghamton jobs outlook improves, led by education, health care
BINGHAMTON — The Binghamton–area job market is gradually recovering from the great recession, led by growth in “eds and meds.” “Where we’re seeing our best
EI focuses on website marketing
ENDICOTT — With a new website and a new quarterly electronic newsletter, Endicott Interconnect Technologies (EI) is hoping to continue its bounce back from the
Greater Binghamton Chamber gears up for Expo 2012
BINGHAMTON — The Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its business-to-business event — this year, called Expo 2012 — on
Layoff leads to new business venture
VESTAL — After spending 36 years working in the electronics industry, John Giangrieco is finally doing something he always wanted to do — run his own business. Giangrieco spent 34 years working at Universal Instruments, a Conklin–based provider of automation and assembly equipment products for the electronics-manufacturing industry, before the company downsized and left him
Cedarville company plots growth for 2012
CEDARVILLE — Fermer Precision may be a small business in the hamlet of Cedarville, but the company has kicked off 2012 off in a big way with new equipment, new customers, and new affiliations with sister companies it gained when Fiber Instrument Sales (FIS) acquired Fermer in July 2011. In January, Fermer landed a contract
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