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Aloi Materials Handling & Automation has completed its second acquisition this year with the purchase of a Kentucky-based materials provider. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Mainstream Inc., based in Louisville, Ky., will be led by Aloi President ...

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The $29.1 million loan on one of the few remaining properties wholly under the management of Robert Morgan’s Morgan Communities went delinquent in August and the lender is preparing to foreclose, according to the latest advisory from Trepp. Rivers Pointe ...

Focusing on money, instead of what makes you happy, is the worst mistake women professionals can make, says LaShunda Leslie-Smith, executive director of a nonprofit that seeks to break the cycle of poverty in Rochester’s EMMA and Beechwood neighborhoods. Leslie-Smith, ...

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Fast facts about Rochester: Rochester has a population of over 200,000, according to United States census estimates, and approximately120 million consumers are available within 500 miles of Rochester. The average Rochester commute is 21 minutes, five minutes below the national ...

Put your nicely appointed, three-bedroom ranch house on the market on a Friday and you may very well be accepting an offer by Monday. List an iconic, 177,500-square-foot building in the heart of downtown and you know from the outset ...

The George Eastman Museum has received a $340,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its Protecting Nitrate Film Heritage project. The funding, which comes from the Division of Preservation and Access, Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program, will ...

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Jobs in the clean energy arena are growing faster than the general economy, according to statistics shared by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Tuesday. Growth in this area, which includes everything from installing solar panels to ...

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With growth comes change, at least for CAUSE + EFFECT Strategy & Marketing. On Sunday, the Henrietta-based firm was ranked No. 87 on Adweek’s inaugural list of Fastest Growing Agencies in the world. On Monday, the company pared down its ...

Business women in Rochester say the community is embedded with positive values of kindness, gratitude and positivity. Rochester’s business community wants to see entrepreneurs succeed, says Sujatha Ramanujan, managing director of Luminate, a startup accelerator focused on optic, photonics and ...

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Lynn Clement of the KJT Group Inc. brings up her firm’s benefits packages during recruiting interviews. “We do have a fairly generous health insurance benefit, and we do have vision and dental,” says KJT’s chief research officer. “I do bring ...

Median home prices in Monroe County climbed 9.2 percent in August compared to the same time period a year ago while the supply of houses on the market increased for the first time in nine months. The median price on ...

A year and a half after opening their expanded test and assembly site at Eastman Business Park, ON Semiconductor has announced plans to downsize in Rochester. ON Semiconductor, ranked 485 on the Fortune 500, is a global supplier of semiconductor ...

Applications are now open for Monroe Community College students seeking work and scholarships from ESL Federal Credit Union. The deadline for the ESL/MCC Scholars program is Oct. 18. Students in MCC’s School of Business & Entrepreneurial Studies are eligible for ...

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Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery has been named one of the top 100 wineries in the world for 2019 by Wine & Spirits magazine. The magazine released its list over the weekend, including wineries from around the globe, with one-third of ...

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Mark McDermott began his career in law, shifted to the shoe industry, moved into manufacturing and landed in companion care. According to Ann Marie Cook, CEO of Lifespan of Greater Rochester, “Mark has the ability to see the big picture ...