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  Meals by DeLeo started by accident. Owner and executive chef Jason DeLeo was meal prepping for himself when a friend, Nick Benedetto, approached him at a body building competition and asked him about his regimen. DeLeo told him about ...

  Heather Collins suffered from problematic skin. When she couldn’t find any successful treatments, she took matters into her own hands and created her own soap company, Indie Goat Soap, with her business partner, Amanda Marino. Originally from Pennsylvania, Collins ...

Friday, May 4 marks the 10th annual Saunders Scholars national competition at which America’s Next Top Young Entrepreneur will be crowned. The day-long event at Rochester Institute of Technology celebrates middle school and high school student CEOs representing 62 small businesses ...

Bob Whipple has become so knowledgeable on the topic of trust that he has earned himself the title “Trust Ambassador.” Like many other locals, Whipple spent 31 years working for Kodak. Always fascinated by leadership, he spent much of his ...

People are paying more attention to what they wear on their feet. And I’m not referring to shoes. Jeff Rogers noticed people were turning away from plain old black or white socks and advertising funky sock patterns. An entrepreneur by ...

  For Bobbie Goheen, helping others achieve their goals is her bread and butter. Goheen is a leadership consultant who launched her own business, Synthesis Management Group, in 2000. Before setting out on her own, she spent 18 years working ...

As the first generation in her family to attend college, Jodi Rosenshein Atkin has a deep appreciation for higher education. Decades later, she has now found herself in a career centered on helping others navigate their path toward higher education. ...

  For the better part of a decade, any mention of the name 5LINX was also quickly followed by a number — the firm’s ranking among the top 100 fastest-growing businesses in Rochester. 5LINX was a staple on that Rochester Business ...

A South Wedge salon that focuses on eyebrows and other beauty services has opened a second location, in The Marketplace Mall. Sujana Beauty and Brows will offer threading, waxing and temporary tattoos using henna at its new shop inside the ...

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The City of Rochester has pushed back to March 12 the deadline for the Rochester Rhinos to vacate Capelli Sport Stadium. The Rhinos were told via a Jan. 19 letter from Timothy Curtin, corporation counsel for the city, that they ...

Michael Caceci was once a transplant who knew little about the Rochester community beyond the walls of Xerox Corp. Today, however, he is a well-connected small business owner who has networked with thousands of professionals inside and beyond Rochester. Caceci ...

  Anthony Imburgia joined the Profeta Painting team as a project manager in April 2016 and just a year and a half later he and his brother, Nick, are co-owners of the business. The Imburgia brothers purchased the business from ...

A partnership between officials with Lyft, the Rochester Americans and Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial will make ride-sharing a more visible — and perhaps more viable — option for sports fans and concert-goers. Under terms of the one-year partnership, ...

Human resources regulations can be a pain in the neck and costly, agreed educators, business people and legislators participating in a wide-ranging panel discussion at the Greece Regional Chamber of Commerce Thursday. Even those regulations with the best of intentions ...

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It’ll be déjà vu all over again for the grand re-opening of the Cinema Theater Friday, Feb. 2. There will be old faces in new roles—longtime patrons Audrey Kramer and Alex Chernavsky are the new owners, who took over the ...

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