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Y-Prime Hires Finance Director
Blaise Hall is new director of finance at Malvern’s Y-Prime, Inc., a premier eClinical products and consulting company. Hall will lead the company’s financial processes, including financial reporting, revenue forecasting and budgeting. A finance expert with more than 15 years of experience in clinical research and pharmaceutical finance, Hall has a track record of taking…
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Fast-Growing Local Distributor Allied Wire & Cable Wins E Award For Exemplary Exporting
From a Wayne basement to one of Pennsylvania’s fastest-growing private companies, Allied Wire & Cable has exemplified success, and a recent presidential “E” Award for Exports serves as proof. “The ‘E’ Awards Committee was very impressed with Allied Wire & Cable’s creation of an interdepartmental committee to enhance exports,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said…
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Philadelphia Foundation Awards Systems Grant To La Comunidad Hispana
More improvements are under way at La Comunidad Hispana in Kennett Square thanks to a $21,500 grant just awarded by the board of management of The Philadelphia Foundation. LCH plans to use the grant for an information management system needs assessment. “This funding will help us better serve the community,” said Margarita Queralt Mirkil (pictured…
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Chester County Claims Trio Of State’s Best Places to Work Distinction
Many of Pennsylvania’s most promising business pioneers and entrepreneurs call Chester County home, but what about the everyday employee? It turns out those everyday employees enjoy some of the best workplaces in the state too. Research by the commonwealth’s economic development leaders has recently concluded that three of Pennsylvania’s Best Places to Work are right…
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QVC Partners With Ivanka Trump To Fight Breast Cancer
You want me to do what in these shoes? Ivanka Trump is partnering with West Chester’s QVC to fight breast cancer and help women slip into high fashion shoes that make them feel as if they are ready to conquer the world. Trump, a business woman, writer and television personality, is appearing in public service…
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National Radiation Oncology Society Honors Dr. Konski Of Chester County Hospital
Dr. Andre A. Konski, medical director of the department of Radiation Oncology at Chester County Hospital, has been named one of 30 Fellows of the American Society for Radiation Oncology – FASTRO. Dr. Konski is also professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology in the department of Radiation Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the…
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Landmark Book Barn Waiting To Turn The Page To A New Era
A nearly 200-year-old barn-turned-treasure-trove-of-knowledge tucked away in the countryside south of West Chester is waiting to turn the page on a storied history of its own. Baldwin’s Book Barn, filled five stories full with hundreds of thousands of books collected over seven decades, may soon part with its founding family. “I’m very fussy on who…
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10 Minutes On QVC Gives Cosmetics Entrepreneur A Makeover
An opportune combination of cosmetics that hide her severe rosacea and make up for her lack of eyebrows together with a long-sought-after 10-minute spot in front of QVC’s cameras in West Chester have led to the remarkable makeover of Jamie Kern Lima’s IT Cosmetics. The exponential trajectory that “even QVC execs marvel at” has taken Lima’s…
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Local Health, Charity Experts Join Coatesville’s Brandywine Health Foundation
A West Chester University dean with public health expertise and a memorial foundation president have joined Coatesville’s Brandywine Health Foundation to spearhead a new youth mental health first aid program. Newtown Square resident Dr. Linda Thompson Adams and Exton executive Fred C. Travaglini were just named to the volunteer board of directors, The Unionville Times reported.…
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Malvern Electronics Maker Vishay Intertechnology Adds $180M Connection
A Malvern-based maker of discrete semiconductors and passive components has soldered on yet another major connection to its global electronics brand. Vishay Intertechnology has paid $180 million to acquire almost 89 percent of the outstanding shares of Taiwanese circuit design firm Capella Microsystems, with plans to buy up the rest by January. “Capella adds crucial technological capabilities…
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Malvern Attorney Joshua Dutill Elected To Cancer Nonprofit’s Board
Children who face the difficult battle against cancer now have a new local advocate, as a Malvern associate of Stradley Ronon Attorneys at Law has been chosen to help lead the local nonprofit organization committed to supporting such children and investing in research surrounding pediatric cancer. Attorney Joshua Dutill was just elected to the Eagles Fly…
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AMETEK Appoints Gretchen McClain To Director Role
Gretchen W. McClain, formerly chief executive officer for Xylem, Inc., is a new director at AMETEK of Berwyn. “We are very pleased to welcome Gretchen to AMETEK’s board of directors,” said Frank S. Hermanace, chief executive officer. “She is an experienced business executive with a strong technology background and experience that nicely complements an already…
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Radiate Athletics Crowdfunding Dream Come True Turns Nightmarish
A $30,000 wish that magically delivered nearly 20 times that amount — $580,000 — to a West Chester entrepreneur last year also dropped enough bigger-than-life problems onto the doorstep of Radiate Athletics co-founder Kenneth Crockett Jr. to make a man pull Radiate’s thermochromic T-shirt over his head. “Demand crushed our supply capability,” Crockett said in a…
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Victory Brewing Launches Line of Beer-Infused Cheese Spreads
By Shannon Maria Jones Victory Brewing is giving beer lovers something else to chew on – beer infused cheese spreads. Partnering with Key Ingredient Market from Bath, PA, Victory will now offer three varieties of cheddar spreads: HopDevil, Headwaters, and Golden Monkey. Founded in 2008, Key Ingredient Market is a manufacturer of high quality, all…
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Stephen Browning Joins Weston Solutions, Inc.
Stephen E. Browning is now senior vice president of federal programs at Weston Solutions, Inc. in West Chester. Browning, who has led global capital improvement programs, will lead strategic marketing and client development as the employee-owned company increases its federal client base. Browning has more than 25 years of successful international program management, and engineering,…
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West Chester Businessman DeBaptiste Celebrates Milestone
For 60 years, people have gathered at Clifford E. DeBaptiste’s family business to celebrate the lives of others. This weekend, the West Chester community will gather to celebrate his life and business, as the 90-year-old will reach his 60th anniversary as founder and CEO of DeBaptiste Funeral Homes. The Army veteran, former mayor and statewide…
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Physiotherapy Associates Names New Chief Financial Officer
Paul Solomon is the new chief financial officer at Physiotherapy Associates. The company, with its home office at 855 Springdale Drive, Exton, has hundreds of individual clinics throughout the country and provides physical therapy, industrial rehabilitation, sports medicine and orthotics and prosthetics services. Solomon will be responsible for all of the financial activities of the…
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Coatesville’s Sikorsky Delivers First Of S-92 Helicopters To Bristow Helicopters, Ltd.
The craftsmen at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Coatesville are playing an indirect part in search and rescue missions in the United Kingdom. Sikorsky this week delivered the first of 11 Sikorsky S-92 helicopters to Bristow Helicopters Ltd. to be used in search and rescue service at 10 bases across the UK. “We are very excited…
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