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  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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In a neighborhood that is 63 percent African-American, none of the 94 corner stores were owned or operated by an African-American living in the northeast Rochester neighborhood. Until the Freedom Market arrived in 2013, that is. The store on Webster ...

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When Andy Moles began pursuit of his MBA at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School, he wanted to prepare himself to run his own company someday. But the opportunity to be his own boss came sooner than expected, and ...

When John Loury and Mike Sutton moved back from Buffalo to start their own analytics company, they had a business concept and an implementation strategy, but not much else for their enterprise. They didn’t even have desks. They’ve come a ...

Title Boxing Club is marking its grand opening by offering free classes Thursday evening and Friday morning at the Pittsford club. The first free class is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday and will be followed by a party and gym ...

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Reenie and Stan Feingold hoped that their small business could withstand the test of time, but when rapidly advancing technology forced them out of the 35mm slide duplication business, they switched gears and launched Store Smart in 2007. Located at ...

Mayor Lovely Warren announced that the City of Rochester’s Neighborhood and Business Development Department will hold an information session on Wednesday Jan. 10 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The information session is for downtown businesses and developers who work with ...

Only a fortune teller could predict that David Lanni, owner and president of Cable Systems Inc., would expand his business into the same building where his first telecom job was located 40 years ago. Lanni began his career in the ...

Solid Surfaces Inc. changed owners in January and is now changing names. A provider of custom countertops from its location at 1 Townline Circle in Brighton, the company as of Thursday will be known as Premier Surfaces. Gregg Sadwick, president ...

From stoking brand loyalty to assembling the right team, small businesses face plenty of challenges. Add the possibility of making legal mistakes, and the stakes get even higher, given that some of those missteps prove to be fledgling ventures’ undoing. ...

A self-proclaimed Jill of all trades, Sandy Sloane’s career has been far from a linear progression. Hailing from Long Island, Sloane obtained her undergraduate degree in occupational therapy from Tufts University. After briefly practicing in the field, Sloane decided that ...

When the newest franchise of Salvatore’s Pizzeria and Pub opened earlier this month in Walworth, Wayne County, it might have seemed like a speedy promotion for the 25-year-old owner. Frank Freida is currently the youngest franchisee in the 29-store chain, ...

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