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The New York Wine and Grape Foundation is moving from Canandaigua to Penn Yan. The foundation, a trade and marketing organization for grapes and wine, has been located in Canandaigua since the New York Wine and Culinary Center — now ...

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Dixon Schwabl, the Victor-based marketing and communications firm, has expanded its leadership team by promoting four employees to managing partners. Jon Alhart, Jordan Dixon, Connor Dixon-Schwabl and Maureen Swick Kurz combined have 50 years of service with the company, which ...

When Partners + Napier outgrew their office space in High Falls and began searching for a new home, the management team placed a priority on a locale in the heart of downtown. They accomplished that mission by landing on the ...

A quick quiz: What do you get when you take a piece of cloth about the size of a hand towel and connect it to a flexible cord and rigid handle? If you guessed a kite that won’t fly, you’re ...

The Rochester Association of Black Journalists (RABJ) on Sunday will celebrate its 15th anniversary of bringing diversity to local newsrooms and advocating for balanced coverage of the community.   RABJ was founded in the spring of 2004 by reporters, photographers, ...

The music at the 2018 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival could be heard in Hatch Recital Hall, in the Harro East Ballroom, at the Wilder Room and on the various outdoor stages. Oh, and also from the posters that adorned ...

St. John Fisher has launched a new master’s degree program in strategic communication that will be mostly taught online. Strategic communication combines traditional emphases of communications programs, such as public relations, marketing and advertising, with study in the creation of ...

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Cause + Effect Strategy and Marketing announced growth of 83 percent for 2018, another stellar year for the data insight and analytics firm. Founded in 2015 by John Loury and Mike Sutton, the Henrietta-based agency added 10 clients, including Monro ...

Mirror Show Management’s recently introduced innovation, MapBuilder by ExperiDigital, will be one of 25 inventions in EXHIBITORLIVE‘s 2019 New Product Showcase. The New Product Showcase, a feature of next week’s EXHIBITORLIVE 2019 in Las Vegas, is a launching pad for new ...

Matthew Mitchell’s first introduction to the marketing firm Corporate Communications, Inc., came in 1996 when he was a co-op student from Rochester Institute of Technology. Now he runs the company. Mitchell recently was named president of Corporate Communications, a digital marketing ...

This year’s trend in Super Bowl advertisements will be humor and girl power, says the business dean at St. John Fisher College, who has been monitoring such ads for 20 years. Fisher’s Rama Yelkur says humor is always a big ...

Symone Sanders, the youngest press secretary for a presidential candidate in history, will deliver the University of Rochester’s Martin Luther King Commemorative Address on Wednesday evening. Sanders, who now works as a political commentator for CNN, was national press secretary ...

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OnCell has acquired New Zealand-based Authentic, a move that will strengthen OnCell’s position as a leader in self-guided tour apps while also increasing its global presence. OnCell, based in Pittsford, provides mobile tour technologies for museums, parks and cultural destinations, ...

The University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business is getting positive response from prospective and accepted students after Simon recently was named the MBA Program of the Year by Poets & Quants, a media company covering business schools. “There’s really ...

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, a leading contender for National Football League most valuable player, will headline the 70th annual Rochester Press-Radio Club Day of Champions Charity Dinner. Mahomes will receive the Coca-Cola Sports Personality of the Year Award ...