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ConMed shareholders elect company-nominated directors, investor reacts
UTICA, N.Y. — ConMed Corp. (NASDAQ: CNMD), a Utica–based surgical-device maker, announced that shareholders have elected all eight of its director nominees. The firm is
People news: Envisage promotes Snyder to VP of solutions and innovation
LANSING, N.Y. — Envisage Information Systems, LLC, a Lansing–based software-development company, has promoted Robert Snyder to vice president of solutions and innovation from director of
Hardinge to acquire grinding business from German firm
HORSEHEADS, N.Y. — Hardinge Inc. (NASDAQ: HDNG) today announced plans to acquire the assets of the Voumard internal diameter (ID) grinding business from Rendsburg, Germany–based
AssureStart starts selling online small-business insurance in New York state
AssureStart Insurance Agency, Inc., a Seattle–based, online small-business insurance provider, announced it is now open for business across New York state. AssureStart sells business property
SBA, Women’s Business Center to hold disaster-planning workshop in Utica
UTICA, N.Y. — The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Women’s Business Center of New York State have scheduled a disaster-planning workshop for Mohawk
Company report: Atlantic Testing Labs gets WBE certification
DeWITT — Atlantic Testing Laboratories (ATL) announced it has obtained certification as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) from the New York State Department of Economic
First Niagara to combine consumer-banking businesses
BUFFALO, N.Y — First Niagara Financial Group (NASDAQ: FNFG) on Thursday announced plans to combine all of its consumer-banking businesses into one unit. Effective immediately,
Smith Sovik law firm opens Buffalo office
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse–based law firm of Smith Sovik Kendrick & Sugnet, P.C., which focuses on civil litigation, has opened a new office in
U.S. Health-Care Costs versus Health Outcomes
Dr. Michael Kirsch, a practicing physician and newspaper columnist, has lamented that he has difficulty answering questions about the economics of health care. One of
John G. Ullman: Financial-Planning Pioneer
CORNING — Flash back to 1978. The financial landscape was clearly delineated. Bankers collected deposits and made loans, insurance companies sold property and life policies,
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