Retail
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Updated CertainTeed CurbAppeal App Brings Home Exterior Options To Life
When it comes to picking out important new features for the exterior of your home, nothing is more useful than an accurate vision of how it will look in real life. And with the latest upgrade to CertainTeed’s user-friendly CurbAppeal app for iPad iOS 7.0 or later, you no longer have a good excuse for belaboring…
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QVC Searching For Best Tomorrowland Gadget
Anything is possible just around the corner in the land of the future, and QVC aims to take the world there today by unveiling the best new futuristic product — on the very day the world watches Disney’s blockbuster debut of Tomorrowland. The global home shopping leader from West Chester is asking the public to…
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Universal Health Services CEO Sees Retail Clinics Pushing Healthcare To Adapt
A wave of retailers offering a checkup before their customers check out is threatening the status quo of the healthcare establishment, but the leader of Universal Health Services of King of Prussia, a healthcare industry heavyweight, says bring it on. American healthcare needs a prescription for adaptability, Universal Health Services CEO Alan B. Miller told…
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Daily Local Reporter’s Inside Look At QVC Non-Stop Broadcasting Machine
The robotic cameras, space shuttle-like control rooms, jam-packed warehouses, unscripted presentations, a relaxed — not frantic — pace and the sheer numbers of home TVs reached, gadgets sold and billions of dollars generated right in West Chester’s backyard at QVC are simply staggering, especially to Daily Local News columnist Bill Rettew Jr., who chronicled a…
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New Evidence Gives Exton’s J.W. Pepper Co. Credit For First Sousaphone
The subdued, suspenseful tunes of an unsolved mystery have faded away into a loud celebratory march for an Exton music publisher that has finally settled the dispute over creation and whereabouts of the world’s first sousaphone thanks to music enthusiasts. A lifelong sousaphone player from nearby Harleysville was instrumental in discovering the evidence that points…
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AmerisourceBergen Continues Industry Ascendancy with Walgreens Deal
An “extremely lucrative deal” to distribute pharmaceutical drugs to Walgreens stores for 10 years has pumped up Chesterbrook’s AmerisourceBergen (ABC) into an industry heavyweight that is now poised to flex its muscle in emerging new opportunities. With U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the country’s first biosimilar drug in March, “we believe ABC is ‘the pony to…
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QVC Airs New App For Apple Watch
West Chester’s world-renowned home shopping network is taking the anxiety out of hitting the off switch and leaving the TV screen. Now the next great deal is only a glance away, as QVC has released its first app for the Apple Watch. QVC for Apple Watch will feature the current on-air product and its best-value…
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Devon Yard Development Plans Revealed
Proposed plans for the development of Devon Yards were revealed on Monday. Waterloo Devon L.P., Urban Outfitters, Inc. and Antropologie, Inc., shared their vision for the area in a public meeting. Plans for the project noted that the proposed development is “A unique development where like-minded/like-spirited retailers, restaurateurs and residents coexist and foster a unique environment…
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Arrival Of Two Acclaimed Restaurants Has Devon Residents Nervous
Along with luxury residences and lavish retailers, the Devon Yard is bringing a pair of acclaimed Vetri Family restaurants to the Devon Horse Show vicinity as part of a bigger six-acre development — but neighbors are feeling more nerves than nirvana. “One resident said they liked the idea of having a Vetri restaurant, but not ‘being…
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QVC Celebrates Earth Day With Air Quality Award
Behind the camera and far from the glitz and glamor of selling the hottest new home shopping trends, QVC is concerned about creating another kind of green: better air quality. The West Chester TV network recieved an Air Quality Excellence Award from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission — just in time for Earth Day. “Businesses, nonprofits,…
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Victory Brewing Company Releases German-Inspired Kirsch Gose Sour Cherry Bier
Victory Brewing Company (Victory) headquartered in Downingtown, Chester County recently released Kirsch Gose, its first endeavor incorporating natural fruit juices. Gose is a German-style brew that takes its name from the salinic river Gose, and the fruit juices add the subtle but signature flavors of a tart and salty finish. Promising to excite with the sharpness…
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Property Brothers Bring Budget Home Improvement Show To QVC
Widely-acclaimed home improvement TV stars will hit West Chester’s star-studded home shopping network for the blockbuster debut of their Scott Living collection. HGTV’s “Property Brothers”, Jonathan and Drew Scott, are bringing their vision for transformational home furnishings to your backyard through a special QVC broadcast featuring design-minded demonstrations and the unveiling of the Scott Living patio…
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Forbes: Do The Volt And Tesla Have Opposite Marketing Polarities?
Is Chevrolet really selling the Volt, its newest hybrid car, as well as it could be? In a recent article in Forbes, contributor Brooke Crothers went to visit two Devon dealerships, one from Tesla and the other Chevrolet. The impression that he got on how the two companies are presenting their newest electricity based cars,…
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Coatesville’s Bottom Dollar Food Store Reopening As Aldi
Bottom Dollar hasn’t seen its last dollar just yet —at least not in Coatesville. The grocery store closed last year when the entire chain went bottom up, but now discount food giant Aldi has taken over and is throwing the doors back open. The Coatesville store is one of less than half the 66 closed Bottom Dollars…
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Newly Opened Avondale Natural Foods Offers Cafe, Hand-Crafted Breads
Although Avondale Natural Foods only opened at the end of January at 122 Pennsylvania Ave., the store’s home-baked bread, cafe and juice bar are already attracting a local following, Philly.com reports. The store has organic foods and health and beauty products, and bread baked by Ilon Silverman. Its comfortable cafe has a simple breakfast and…
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Jill Martin Is A New Creative Director At QVC
Television personality and fashion expert Jill Martin will add her stylish flair to QVC’s G.I.L.I. got it love it® collection in her new role as creative director of the line. Martin and the sophisticated collection of contemporary fashion and accessories are making their presentation this week. Martin is the co-author of the New York Times…
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Local Brew Scene Could Expand With New 12-Pack Rule By Liquor Control Board
A new rule handed down from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board could open the tap of options for beer drinkers looking to try new flavors by grabbing 12-packs from their favorite distributor. The PLCB legal advisory issued this month allows distributors to compete with grocery stores, bars and convenience stores by offering containers with as little…
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Wegmans Will Soon Be Hiring For New Concordville Store
The Wegmans supermarket chain, which is opening a new store in Concordville this fall, has just pledged to contribute $250,000 in scholarship opportunities over the next five years at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I. Jim Schaeffer, Wegmans’ vice president of culinary operations, said he hopes the scholarship fund will help students, but also…
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