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Bauer grows Cascade plant in Clay, applies its expertise
CLAY — Nearly a year after acquiring lacrosse helmet maker Cascade Sports in Clay, Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. has boosted employment at the local plant and is taking advantage of its capabilities for other products. Exeter, N.H.–based Bauer (TSX: BAU), which says it’s the world’s market-share leader in ice-hockey and roller-hockey equipment, has added five […]
Levene Gouldin & Thompson grows strategically
VESTAL — The natural-gas and oil drilling boom in northern Pennsylvania has paid big dividends for one of the Binghamton area’s major law firms. “Our oil-and-gas practice is helping to [spark] the firm’s growth,” says Jeffrey A. Loew, managing partner of Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP, headquartered at 450 Plaza Drive in Vestal. “It is
Area firms pursue clean-energy technologies with CAP grants
SYRACUSE — A handful of area businesses developing clean-energy technologies recently received a helping hand to bring their products to market. CenterState CEO, National Grid, and State Assemblyman William Magnarelli (D–Syracuse) on April 19 awarded five Central New York companies grant funding to assist in commercializing clean-energy technologies. The awards are part of the Syracuse
Fleet Feet Sports, Syracuse co-owner recognized
DeWITT — When Ellen Griffin, co-owner of the Fleet Feet Sports, Syracuse franchise, received her entrepreneurship award at the recent WISE Symposium, she told the attendees the local franchise had really evolved over the past 13 years. “I decided that we’re not in the running-specialty business, we’re in the changing-lives business,” Griffin says, reiterating her
RIT providing Lean Six Sigma training for Crouse & Welch Allyn workers, EMS providers
SYRACUSE — The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is again providing Lean Six Sigma training to a group of employees from Crouse Hospital, engineers from Welch Allyn, and regional emergency-medical service (EMS) providers. The training at Crouse started the week of April 15. The training and performance-improvement collaboration, which Crouse launched in 2012 with RIT
New dental practice opens in downtown Syracuse
SYRACUSE — Two Syracuse dentists, Tyler W. Mead and Christopher J. Zimmerman have teamed up to form a new dental practice, dubbed Downtown Dental Syracuse, P.C. The office of Downtown Dental Syracuse is in the University Building at 120 E. Washington St., in the same location of a dental practice formerly known as Zimmerman’s Downtown
Baker named outreach coordinator for Ithaca Commons project
ITHACA — The city of Ithaca and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) announced the recent hire of Tammy Baker as outreach coordinator for the Ithaca
Destiny to get eight new stores in deal with international retail group
SYRACUSE — Destiny USA announced today that it would get eight new stores this year from retailers that are new to the United States. The
BAE Systems to provide propulsion system for Quebec buses
ENDICOTT — BAE Systems on Wednesday announced it will provide its hybrid-propulsion system on 475 Nova hybrid-electric buses for the Association du transport urbain du
Tax credit boosts Anaren’s fiscal third-quarter earnings
DeWITT — Anaren, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANEN) earned $5.3 million, or 41 cents per share, during its fiscal third quarter that ended March 31. That was
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