Category: archives
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Furniture store opens in Lawrence
Design Spree, a new furniture retailer will hold its grand opening celebration Dec. 1, at its newly renovated, 60,000-square-foot warehouse at 4 Litho Road behind Lawrence Lincoln Mercury on Route 1 North in Lawrence. Design Spree will feature a wide range of furnishings, accessories, art, lighting, rugs and more, with new inventory available on…
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CA, Inc. opens Ewing sales offices
CA, Inc., the global information technology management company headquartered in Islandia, N.Y. formerly know as Computer Associates, has opened its Mid-Atlantic sales headquarters at Opus East’s PrincetonSouth Corporate Center in Ewing. PrincetonSouth Corporate Center is a 740,000 square-foot office park comprised of six Class A office buildings. Opus East will also develop a hotel/conference…
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Mercer Insurance income rises
Pennington-based Mercer Insurance Group (Nasdaq: MIGP) reported net income for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2007 of $3 million or $0.47 per share, up from net income of $2.2 million, or $0.35 per share, for the for tthe same quarter in 2006. Mercer Insurance offers commercial and personal lines insurance to businesses and individuals…
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Howard M. Anderson Jr.
Owned Anderson’s Nursery, ABC Child Care Howard Martin Anderson Jr. died on Nov. 22 at The University Medical Center of Princeton. He was 64. Mr. Anderson was born in Princeton in 1943 and lived in West Windsor his entire life. He graduated from Princeton High School and earned an associate’s degree in business from…
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Rockwood Holdings results are higher
West Windsor-based Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC), a global producer of specialty chemicals and materials, announced net sales of $829.6 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2007, up 12.1 percent compared to $739.8 million in net sales for the same period in the prior year. Year to date net sales were $2,476.4…
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HEALTH & MEDICINE
VioQuest Pharmaceuticals, a Basking Ridge-based biopharmaceutical company focused on developing cancer therapeutics, has announced that Cytogen Chief Executive Officer Michael D. Becker will join it as president and CEO. Mr. Becker, who was president and CEO of Plainsboro-based Cytogen since joining the company in Dec. 2002, had announced he would be stepping down. Cytogen,…
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Victoria F. McCarthy
Stuart Country Day department chair Victoria F. McCarthy of Princeton, died Thursday at University Medical Center at Princeton following an illness. She was 54. Ms. McCarthy was the chair of the English Department at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, where she taught middle- and upper-school English. She graduated from Stuart Country…
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Sovereign Bank donates to Mercer County groups
Sovereign Bank announced that it has made contributions to New Jersey Community Capital and the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association, both Mercer County-based. Sovereign Bank contributed $5,000 to New Jersey Community Capital, a multi-faceted financial intermediary that provides financing and technical assistance for a variety of community economic development initiatives throughout New Jersey. Over…
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Blogging for fun and profit
Writing a blog may not be considered a top priority by area businesspeople and professionals just yet, but for those who do the benefits are multi-faceted By Lauren Otis, Business Editor When Victor Medina first began building his solo law practice, he decided to start a blog to serve as a diary of the…
