Business Briefs

Business Briefs

Ladies Workout Express, Millstone, will celebrate its one-year anniversary with an open house June 21 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. During the open house, the women-only fitness center will offer complimentary workout sessions — featuring 16-station circuit training, elliptical fitness trainer, and fitness coaches — NuSkin demonstrations, refreshments, and information on the training center’s UV-free sunless airbrush tanning, weight-loss program, Pilates course, sportswear and other offerings.

Ladies Workout Express is located in the Dugan’s Corner shopping center, 514 Route 33 west, Millstone, just over the Manalapan border. For more information, call (732) 446-6252.

Schoor DePalma, an engineering and consulting firm based in Manalapan, announced that R. Michael McKenna, of Freehold, has been promoted to the positions of vice president and principal at the firm.

Schoor DePalma recognized McKenna as the new principal at the company’s annual meeting held April 27 at the Pa­triots Theater at the Trenton War Memo­rial in Trenton.

McKenna has more than 30 years of site development engineering experience for residential, commercial, industrial and municipal development projects, with specific expertise in planning, analysis, budgeting, scheduling and construction oversight. He is responsible for the site plan design of The Highlands at Plaza Square in New Brunswick, a 6-acre rede­velopment site that is a multi-family rental community containing 417 resi­dential units, 9,000 square feet of retail space, a parking deck that can hold 700 cars, and small pocket parks. He also de­signed site plans for the Matrix Business Park at 7A in Washington Township, a mixed-use development with 4.45 million square feet of office and ware­house/distribution space.

DCH Auto Group has been awarded the J.D. Power and Associates Certified Retail Award for 25 of its auto dealer­ships for excellence in customer service for 2004.

This is the second consecutive year that 25 of DCH Auto Group’s dealerships have earned the award, according to Shau-wai Lam, president and CEO of DCH Auto Group.

DCH Auto Group, which has locations throughout the United States, has earned more J.D. Power and Associates Certified Retailer awards than any other auto group in the nation, according to the press release. The local dealerships re­ceiving the award are: DCH Academy Honda, Old Bridge; DCH Freehold Nis­san; DCH Kay Honda, Eatontown; Saturn of Brunswick, North Brunswick; Saturn of Eatontown; DCH Brunswick Toyota, North Brunswick; and Saturn of Free­hold.

Drug Fair is celebrating its 50th year of operation in 2004.

The first Drug Fair store opened in 1954 in Scotch Plains, and there are now 42 stores, all of them in New Jersey. There are plans to open two new Drug Fair stores later this year, with the loca­tions to be announced at a later date.

Community Distributors, Inc. operates 42 pharmacies under the Drug Fair ban­ner in nine counties, including the Drug Fair store in Freehold Township on Route 9 north.