Retail
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Coatesville Flower Shop Will Give Away 10,000 Roses Friday
By Greg & Dorrie DePedro, Owners of Coatesville Flower Shop At the approach of the first anniversary of our daughter Lisa’s death we were overwhelmed with indecision of what to do that day. Do we stay in bed and bury our heads? Do we cry and scream at the skies asking why? We did that…
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QVC’s Parent Company Announces $2.4 Billion Zulily Acquisition
QVC executives have tuned into the prospects of channeling the significant buying power of millennial women into their West Chester home shopping and e-commerce operation by buying 5-year-old Zulily. The $2.4 billion deal — for less per share than Zulily’s late 2013 initial public offering and a fraction of its 2014 high — aims to…
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Whole Foods Market Coming to Exton
Lovers of healthy, organic food can rejoice as Exton is about to get its first Whole Foods Market. A day after Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust Chief Executive, Joseph Coradino, announced plans to demolish Exton Square Mall’s Kmart building and replace it with a large format organic grocery store, PREIT revealed exactly which brand of…
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Phoenixville’s Bridge Street Chocolates Dipping Into Big Business
Chocolate is not just covering marshmallows, cream and blueberries at Bridge Street Chocolates. It’s also covering vast distances. The not-yet-5-year-old Phoenixville small business is starting to dip into much bigger business. “It’s unbelievable. You wouldn’t think this tiny little shop in Phoenixville would have the reach out to Cape Cod and Bucks County,” entrepreneurial owner…
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Wawa Crowned Nation’s Favorite Convenience Store
Overtaking the convenience store brand it settled runner-up to a year ago, Wawa was recently crowned America’s favorite convenience store. The accolade comes from Market Force, which surveyed thousands of consumers last month, according to a report on Uwishunu.com. Wawa’s 68 percent loyalty score outpaced defending champion QuikTrip’ 62 percent score by a greater margin than…
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Los Angeles Suburb Wins QVC’s West Coast Distribution Center
A new kind of sales pitch recently joined the clamor for the attention of West Chester’s home shopping leader, QVC. Instead of entrepreneurs hawking the hottest new products, government officials have been sweet-talking QVC for the privilege of hosting its first West Coast distribution center. And the winner is Ontario, California. The Los Angeles suburb…
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ACME Markets Sees A&P Bankruptcy As Opportunity For Big Expansion
ACME Markets has found a sale it can’t resist. The 124-year-old Malvern-headquartered grocery brand has a bid on the 76 bankrupt A&P, Superfresh and Pathmark stores. If a deal is struck, the purchase would make ACME 71 percent larger and grow its presence into two new states: Connecticut and New York. ACME already serves customers…
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Chester County Daily News Business Briefs
VISTA Today Daily News Business Briefs are concise stories that bring you up to date with what’s going on around Chester County. This morning: Cognex’s Surface Inspection Systems Division Bought by Ametek Ametek has invested $160 million into the purchase of Cognex Corp.’s Surface Inspection Systems Division (SSID). SSID manufactures inline vision systems, to inspect…
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Wayne’s Gateway Shopping Center Getting A Facelift
With shopping prospects booming at the eastern edge of Chester County’s high-traffic I-76/Route 202 corridor, Wayne’s Gateway Shopping Center is getting an attractive new facelift. Regency Centers’ premier Philly shopping center will undergo an aesthetic transformation via raised architectural features, a modern and vibrant new color scheme, an enhanced landscape design, LED parking lot lighting…
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QVC Hires Abercrombie & Fitch Executive To New Business Planning and Analysis Division
The world’s favorite shopping channel provider has added Sanjay Singh as Senior Vice President to its new Business Planning and Analysis division. In his new role, Singh will lead the group tasked with tapping into market information and global financial, business and operating metrics, in order to create plans to drive the business. Singh joins…
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Final Beam Connects Two Halves Of King of Prussia Mall
The nation’s second-largest mall is no longer divided; the final steel beam linking the King of Prussia Mall’s plaza and court was expected to be placed Tuesday, and the “trophy mall” is now focused on adding 50 new retail storefronts — nearly half of them for luxury brands — en route to a fall 2016 grand…
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Mars Drinks Commissioned Survey Says Mondays And Coffee Breaks Energize The Workplace
Xavier Unkovic, Global President at Mars.When the excitement of a fresh new work week begins to wear off, many employees find reinvigoration from a rally around the coffee pot. That’s the hot new evidence poured out by a recent Ipsos poll commissioned for West Chester coffee and tea maker Mars Drinks. “We believe there are…
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Saint-Gobain Global Empire Rising With New Malvern HQ
The stunning new face of global building materials giant Saint-Gobain isn’t the only monumental investment it’s making in the future. The $80 million under-construction headquarters campus on 65 acres in Malvern is being flanked by a new facility in Indonesia and expansion projects in Wisconsin, New York, Germany and France. “We needed to demonstrate leadership in…
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Breaking With Tradition, Wawa Considers Selling Beer at Chadds Ford Location
The only thing flowing right now is talk, but the prevalent convenience store chain Wawa wants to crack open the tap on beer sales at its Pennsylvania locations, starting in Chadds Ford. Company management is talking to the proper authorities on clearing the trial run, which could bring six-packs of LandShark to the shelves for…
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Embracing Tech Has Taken QVC From The Brink To The Bank
Giving the Internet a piece of the primetime TV spotlight instead of competing with it has helped take West Chester’s QVC from the brink of becoming obsolete to home shopping stardom. In the years since 2006 that CEO Mike George has directed the cable network’s course, QVC has grown to $8.8 billion, soon-to-be seven countries…
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Moving Parts 04 Now Available from Victory Brewing Company
Victory Brewing Company’s Moving Parts 04, the latest in the ever-evolving IPA series, is now on shelves nationally. Victory brewers manipulate the ingredients of each recipe: water, yeast, whole flower hops and brewer’s grains with unbridled enthusiasm, artistry and passion to emphasize the craft in the craft brewing progression with every Moving Parts batch. For Moving Parts…
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Acme Celebrates Memorial Day in NJ With Island Store Reopening
Acme welcomed hundreds of people to a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, May 22nd to celebrate the opening of their newly renovated 38,000 square-foot store in Long Beach Township, NJ. Construction began right after Labor Day 2014 and was a massive undertaking to have completed in time, with crews working round the clock to have…
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West Chester’s Waffatopia, The Sweet Taste of Success
Brian and Andrea Polizzi had a plan and they stuck to it. Inspired by a trip to Belgium, the Polizzi’s started Waffatopia, a West Chester-based company that sells fresh yeast-fermented waffles. According to a story in last week’s Daily Local News, Waffatopia was recently honored by the Chester County chapter of SCORE, the non-profit that…
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