Philadelphia Business Journal
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New $1M Medical Simulation Center Designed By Education Management Solutions
The urgency and intensity of critical medical needs will soon fill the rooms of a new 5,000-square-foot medical simulation center that’s being designed by an…
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SCILEX Of Malvern Forms Scientific Advisory Board
SCILEX Pharmaceuticals of Malvern, on target to market a new lidocaine patch, has just formed a four-member scientific advisory board. The two-year-old emerging specialty pharmaceutical…
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Chesterbrook Firm Auxilium Lures New CFO From Nearby Endo
The wheeling and dealing isn’t done for Chesterbrook specialty biopharmaceutical firm Auxilium. Fresh off a $345 million merger with a Canadian ophthalmology biotech company, it…
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Neighborly Competition Between Endo and Scilex Heats Up For Pain Patches
Money is flowing in Malvern for a competitor to the Lidoderm lidocaine patch made by Endo, whose U.S. headquarters is just 2.5 miles away from the…
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Shire Shareholders’ Hearts Sink As Obama Vows Crackdown On Tax Inversion
Just as lawyers with Chicago pharmaceutical company AbbVie prep the company for its tax-saving flight overseas to the newly-acquired Irish headquarters of Shire, whose U.S.…
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Demise Of Paper Cuts Deeper At Cenveo In Exton
After bankruptcy and being sold off a second time in the past decade one year ago, an Exton envelope manufacturing plant now in the hands…
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Significant Craft Beer Growth Likely To Continue
By Shannon Maria Jones Independent craft brewer’s sales, including those of Downingtown-based Victory Brewing Co., continue to see growth according to the 2014 mid-year report…
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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…
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Walnut St. Labs Startup Incubator Adds Two Key Leaders
West Chester now has an onramp to the cloud; two local business executives have joined Walnut St. Labs to help launch the next big cloud computing…
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Journal Names Dansko Jim Fox Chief Financial Officer Of The Year
Jim Fox, the Dansko executive who led the West Grove’s firm in its transition to a 100 percent employee-owned company, has been named 2014 Chief…
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Breaking – Billions Sway Shire To Accept AbbVie’s $54.8B Takeover Offer
A pot sweetened by nearly $10 billion in recent weeks has persuaded the board of directors for Shire, a global pharmaceutical company with U.S. headquarters…
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Politicos Threaten Export-Import Bank Funding
The fate of an institution that serves as a critical safety net for small businesses engaging in high-risk overseas expansion is in the hands of…
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Intact Vascular, Two Other Chesco Firms Shuffle CEOs
Three Chester County medical device firm leaders have recently engaged in a game of musical chairs, swapping CEOs locally. The long-time CEO of Malvern’s Neuronetics,…
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Hankin Group’s Patience Has Eagleview Soaring Toward Completion
An ambitious vision that took flight in 1985 is now coming in for a landing at Eagleview, with the opening of its new $18 million…
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AmerisourceBergen CEO Collis Highest Paid Chester County CEO
What Chester County CEO took home more Benjamins in fiscal year 2013? Turns out the honor belongs to Steven Collis who, as president & CEO…
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Wayne-Based Shire Tossed Fourth Buyout Bid
Abbvie wants Shire and it doesn’t appear willing to take ‘no, thank you’ as a response. The aggressive Chicago-based AbbVie slammed Shire with a fourth…
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DePuy Synthes Unclear About How Many Jobs Cut Are Local
Johnson & Johnson has slashed its West Chester-based DePuy Synthes medical device manufacturer by 400 jobs in a global restructuring effort, but the company didn’t…














































