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What’s In Store For Local Jos. A. Bank And Men’s Wearhouse Stores If The Acquisition Finalizes April 23?
Men’s Wearhouse Inc. has offered to purchase rival Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. for about $1.8 billion – an offer which expires April 23. It’s unclear whether this will mean mergers or closings for any of the five Jos. A. Bank stores in Chester County or for the sole Men’s Wearhouse store in Exton. The…
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Local Subways Ditch Yoga-Mat Chemical Used In Bread
This April, the 12 Subway restaurants in Chester County are featuring Flatizzas – six-inch mozzarella and marinara pizzas on super crispy flatbread with a variety of toppings. But the big news for foodies is by the end of the month Subway will completely remove Azodicarbonamide (ADA) from its core bread formulations. Subway says it began…
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Chester County Hospital Receives Heart Association Award For Stroke Prevention
Chester County Hospital is one of three regional hospitals to have received an American Heart Association achievement award for stroke prevention. Pennsylvania Hospital and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center also received the AHA/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the commitment and success these hospitals have had in…
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‘Plant A Seed, Grow A Future’ Is Theme For April 24 Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day
If you’re a local office worker or business participating in the 21st annual Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® Day on Thursday, April 24, there are resources available to help make the day a success for all. “Plant a seed, grow a future,” is the theme for the event, which is designed help girls…
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Wawa On Top Of Fuel Pricing With New PriceNet System
While the change is unlikely to be noticed by those grabbing gas and coffee at their local Wawa, the major regional convenience store has just purchased the Kalibrate PriceNet fuel pricing system, which will soon be implemented at 382 Wawa fuel sites. PriceNet allows retail networks to quickly respond to competitors and market conditions to…
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Dansko’s Mimi Curry Receives 2014 Executive Management Award
Mimi Curry, chief operations officer for Dansko in West Grove, was named a 2014 Executive Management Award winner by SmartCEO Magazine. The publication recognized Curry and other Philadelphia region business leaders for leading collaboratively and creatively, upholding the highest ethics and supporting their organization’s mission. “The Executive Management Awards celebrate executives like Mimi Curry who…
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Of Wayne, Makers Of Biopump For Chronic Diseases, Elects Board Of Directors
Medgenics of Wayne, with announced plans to grow its business more than $140 billion per year in 2015, recently held a stockholders meeting and made some changes to its board of directors. Re-elected to the board were: Dr. Sol J. Barer, Dr. Eugene A. Bauer, Isaac Blech, Dr. Alastair Clemow, Michael F. Cola, Wilbur H.…
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Safeguard Scientifics Of Wayne Launches Financing For Innovative Heart Patient Monitoring System
A cloud-based remote monitoring system known as MoMe, which can revolutionize how cardiac arrhythmias are diagnosed and treated, may soon be saving the lives of heart patients. InfoBionic, an emerging digital health company focused on creating superior patient monitoring, has closed the first tranche of a $17 million Series B financing led by Wayne-based Safeguard…
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International Chocolatier Bissinger’s Selects Software System By Wayne-Based Deacom, Inc.
Bissinger’s Handcrafted Chocolatier, known since the 17th century for creating outrageously decadent chocolate treats such as blue cheese and chocolate covered wine grapes, has selected local company Deacom, Inc. of Wayne to streamline its operations. Bissinger’s will use Deacom’s ERP software solution specifically for food manufacturing to drive their growth and improve productivity. Bissinger’s joins…
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Ricoh Americas Gains Electronics Industry Honors For Making An Impact
Ricoh Americas Corporation gained top honors at the CIO Impact Awards in San Francisco for saving millions of dollars and reinforcing the company’s position as a leader in information services. The Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company, with local offices in Malvern and Wilmington, took best in class, technology partner and game changer honors during…
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Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Partners With A Swedish Firm To Market The Drug Xiapex
Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, a Chesterbrook specialty pharmaceutical firm, has partnered with the Swedish firm Swedish Orphan Biovitrium (Sobi) in marketing the drug Xiapex in 28 European Union countries, Norway and Iceland. The first-in-class biologic is used to treat patients with Dupuytren’s contracture and adult men with Peyronie’s disease. Sobi holds the exclusive rights to market Xiapex…
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Rail Users Network Sets Conference For Business And Community Rail Travel Stake Holders
Are you interested in learning how passenger rail and rail transit can improve the economic vitality of the county? Business and civic leaders, real estate developers, community planners, environmentalists and rail advocates are all invited to a Rail Users Network conference on Friday, May 2 at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission in Philadelphia. The…
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New Local Medical Research Company Develops Therapy For Friedreich’s Ataxia Patients
The Downingtown-based Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) has announced a new company, AAVLife, has been founded to rapidly develop a gene-therapy program to treat the life-threatening cardiac condition that affects FA patients. FA is a rare inherited condition that presents in early childhood with neurological symptoms, specifically loss of balance and coordination. However, it is…
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Ricoh Americas Corporation To Be Named 2014 ENERGY STAR Partner
Last year Ricoh Americas Corporation, with local offices in Malvern and Wilmington, helped American families and businesses save $297 billion on their utility bills and prevented more than 2.1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Those figures have captured the attention of the federal government, and on April 29 the company will be recognized…
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Bob Radie Of Pharmaceutical Innovator Egalet Corp. To Address Regional Health Care Conference
Bob Radie, president and chief executive officer of Egalet Corporation in Wayne, will be a presenter at the 13th annual Needham Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, April 9, at the Westin, N.Y. Grand Central Hotel. The 2:20 p.m. presentation will be audio webcast live and also available for replay at Egalet’s website, http://egalet.investorroom.com/eventsandwebcasts. In other news,…
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Coatesville Retirement Community Earns ‘Best Nursing Home’ Status
Freedom Village Retirement Community in West Brandywine, Chester County, has been given “Best Nursing Home” status from U.S. News and World Report in its sixth annual Best Nursing Homes review. Freedom Village, located at 15 Freedom Blvd., West Brandywine, is a Brookdale skilled nursing community, which saw 17 of its retirement communities in the U.S.…
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Precyse University Of Wayne Partners With 50,000 ‘Disruptive’ Athenahealth Providers
Precyse University, an innovative online learning portal helping health care professionals update their medical coding, has partnered with Athenahealth, Inc. to link its network of more than 50,000 health care providers in preparing for the October transition to ICD-10. This October the health care industry must shift International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding from ICD-9…
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