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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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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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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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QVC Gathers Shoppers For Customer’s Choice Sweepstakes
West Chester’s television and ecommerce retailer QVC is now running a toGather Customer’s Choice Beauty Awards Sweepstakes on its toGather shopping site. The site – billed as the place to discover amazing products – has a wide variety of trendy fashion, home and beauty products. To enter online, you must have a toGather account, which…
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William W. Hunt, Jr. Takes A Top Executive Role At Philly Sports Holdings
William W. Hunt, Jr. is the new chief financial and operating officer at Philly Sports Holdings, LLC, an Exton-based, privately-owned holding company that operates Sports Vault and Strategic Sports Marketing. Hunt has more than 30 years of experience in executive, operational and financial leadership. Earlier this month the firm also announced Peter A. Luukko joined…
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Malvern Now Has Its Own Golden Egg, Eggland’s Best Headquarters
An egg company that has laid 17 straight years of double-digit unit sales growth (retail sales now totaling $758 million) and has captured 70 percent of the nation’s specialty egg market recently brought its purely golden success to Malvern with a new headquarters on Swedesford Road in the Great Valley Corporate Center. And there are…
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Kennett Brewing Company’s New Brew Pub Serves Up Beer, Friendship
By Shannon Maria Jones A new craft beer and dining option is coming to Southern Chester County when the Kennett Brewing Company (KBC) opens this September at 109 South Broad Street. The new establishment plans to combine innovative craft beer, local artists, and a touch of whimsy to its upcoming brand. “At the root of…
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QVC Claire Watts Moves Forward By Working Backwards
West Chester CEO Claire Watts has climbed the corporate ladder at Macy’s, Walmart, Limited, Land’s End and now QVC, but she did it by working backwards. “I began to understand that there was a plan that needed to be put together to work,” she told The Wall Street Journal in a recent interview. “It was sort of…
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J.W. Pepper Fetes New Exton Facility, Offers New Fundraising Options For Music Groups
Exton-based J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc., the largest sheet music retailer in the U.S., has new fall fundraising options to help school, church and community music groups raise money. The new state-of-the-art facility at 191 Sheree Blvd. recently hosted a well-attended open house gala in celebration of the company’s 130th anniversary. The event also kicked off…
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Wegmans Now Offers Specialty Pharmacy Service
The pharmacies at Wegmans Food Markets in Downingtown, Malvern and now King of Prussia have entered the demanding but growing specialty pharmacy arena and are now offering enhanced specialty medicines to treat rheumatology, gastroenterology, neurology and dermatology conditions. Specialty pharmacy medications can produce dramatic improvements for many people with chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis,…
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Acme Markets’ Parent Company Discloses Credit Card Data Breach
AB Acquisition LLC, the Boise, Idaho company which operates Malvern-based Acme Markets and several other regional grocery store chains across the United States employing some 115,000 people, 18,000 in the Delaware Valley, announced Thursday it had recently learned of an unlawful intrusion to obtain credit and debit card payment information in some of its stores.…
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International Commercial Television Will Become ICTV Brands, Inc. Aug. 20
International Commercial Television, Inc., one of Chester County’s handful of publicly traded companies, says the company is focused on continued growth and will change the name of the corporation to ICTV Brands, Inc. on Aug. 20. ICTV is a direct response marketing and branding company focused on the health, wellness and beauty sector. Its products…
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Edible Arrangements Adds Fruitflowers To Its Franchise
Edible Arrangements, the store that delivers attractive, delectable fruit and truffle bouquets for special occasions, has just expanded with the acquisition of the FruitFlowers® brand. Included in the purchase are two company stores, all e-commerce operations and a portfolio of trademarks that includes Incredibly Edible Delites®, FruitFlowers® and fruitflowers.com®. FruitFlowers has stores in Broomall and Wilmington.…
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Sports Vault Signs Former Comcast-Spectacor Boss
Sports Vault, an Exton company that deals in autographed sports memorabilia and connects fans with pro athletes has just added a star player at the top of its lineup. Philly Sports Holdings, operator of Sports Vault and Strategic Sports Marketing, has signed Peter Luukko, the former longtime president and COO of the company that owns the…
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A Life Of Swimming With Sharks Puts Dr. Jim Lewis Atop Shark Tank
Uwchlan resident Dr. Jim Lewis felt like he was swimming amongst sharks every day of his childhood, and most of the rest of his life his inventions didn’t seem to attract even the slightest nibble. But after recently capturing the attention of ABC’s entire Shark Tank, it all seems worth it. “It’s still so unbelievable.…
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Digital Device Maker Holds Out On Paying QVC
A case of an order gone bad has left West Chester retailer QVC without both the thousands of digital phone devices that no one would buy and the refund it was due when they were returned. So the popular brand is taking the device maker, NetTalk.com, to court for the nearly $96,000 sitting in limbo, according…
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Donnolo’s Distinctive Florals and Gourmet Shop Still In Full Bloom After 40 Years
Pennsylvania’s only florist shop with a winery isn’t showing any signs of wilting, even after 40 years. The hard work of a Downingtown couple’s hobby turned business has earned Virginia Donnolo’s Distinctive Florals and Gourmet Shop a spot on CBS 3’s list of top 10 florists as well as customers across the world, and Donnolo intends…
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