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Robert Beck has been named chief executive officer for John W. Danforth Company, becoming just the seventh CEO in the company’s 134-year history. Beck joined Danforth in 1993 and has been president of Danforth since 2015. He succeeds Kevin “Duke” ...

A Syracuse suburb has told Robert Morgan’s development company that it will no longer entertain his plans for an apartment complex and retail center on a vacant brownfield site. The Board of Trustees for the Village of Fayetteville informed Morgan’s ...

Standing before a field of tens of thousands of solar panels in Hilton, Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced on Wednesday that she has created a sustainability team to carry on work like the solar array and other energy-saving projects ...

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Veteran television journalist Janet Lomax is the newest Frederick H. Minett Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Lomax, who was news anchor at News 10 NBC for more than three decades, kicks off her year-long appointment at RIT’s Division of ...

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There are few people living in Rochester as deeply immersed in the city as Carlos Carballada. He has gone from the private sector to public office, and now returns to the private sector with his newest role as M&T Bank’s ...

When ER Select acquired TalentBridge USA back in March of 2017, Tom Ioele wanted to add more than just the firm’s business relationships and adept personnel. Ioele, the ER Select CEO, also wanted the name. He believed TalentBridge was the ...

The Harris Corp. has tapped Dana Mehnert to serve as president of the company’s Rochester-based communications systems business. Mehnert will succeed Chris Young, former executive vice president at Exelis Inc. and president of Exelis Geospatial Systems. Harris acquired Exelis in ...

Six members have been added to the board of the American Marketing Association’s Rochester chapter. The new board members are: » Carrie Falzone, owner of Vertical Insite Website & Marketing Solutions; » Gina Godlewski, account executive with Partners + Napier; ...

Project Gator, the 20,000-square-foot building expansion for ever-growing O-AT-KA Milk Products of Batavia, has been completed and the process of hiring an additional 40 employees is underway. O-AT-KA has undergone three expansions in the past six years and added more ...

Corrosion Products & Equipment Inc. of Gates has purchased the assets of a Massachusetts company, broadening its footprint in the Northeast. CPE, which sells and services fluid management products, has acquired Universal Electro Mechanical Inc. of Springfield, Mass., a leading ...

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Rochester is one of 19 founding cities and two counties nationwide to form an electric vehicle purchasing collective. The Climate Mayors Electric Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative has committed to the purchase of 376 electric vehicles (EVs), representing more than $11 million in ...

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Smartphone apps and other personal devices are poised to disrupt a lot of norms in the health care industry by changing the way patient information is tested and tracked. But it may still be another decade before that technology reaches ...

It’s been 18 years since the Food and Drug Administration cleared Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Surgical System, a robotic surgical device. It wasn’t long after that both Highland Hospital and Rochester General Hospital adopted the devices, which help perform procedures ...

Rochester’s restaurant week last spring was such a success, the Rochester Downtown Development Corp. is scheduling another Eat Up Rochester event for the fall: drinks and appetizer specials during happy hours on Wednesdays. “Wednesday Night Out” runs from Sept. 12 ...

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Industrial space is expected to be a thriving facet of commercial real estate development in the next few years, according to a prominent educator and industry analyst. While office and retail real estate won’t be as strong, Joshua Harris said ...