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Juvenile health, safety and wellness product maker Summer Infant Inc. has separated the positions of CEO and chairman of the board of directors, naming Dan Almagor as chairman.
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By PBN Staff
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Hasbro Inc., the maker of Nerf, Playskool and Transformers toys, fell the most in nine months after saying preliminary fourth-quarter sales trailed its forecast because of weaker demand in the U.S.
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By Kevin Orland |
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Gasoline prices in Rhode Island fell by 2 cents over the last week, according to AAA Southern New England, to $3.52 per gallon of self-serve, unleaded regular gas.
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By PBN Staff and Bloomberg News
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Mall owners including Simon Property Group Inc. and General Growth Properties Inc., the biggest in the United States, are signaling they’re moving on from struggling retail centers as the economic rebound drives them to focus on the best-performing markets.
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By Brian Louis |
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BOSTON – The Mass. Department of Environmental Protection has fined a Fairhaven company for dumping waste paint-wash water into a storm drain at the Dartmouth Mall, the agency announced.
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1/21/13
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CVS Caremark Corp. and the United Food & Commercial Workers union have signed a five-year cooperation agreement giving CVS/pharmacy employees at roughly 500 stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego the opportunity to vote on whether or not they want to be represented by the union.
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By PBN Staff
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Toy and game-maker Hasbro Inc. has teamed up with the R.I. Resource Recovery Corp. to introduce single-stream recycling at all of its Ocean State facilities.
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By PBN Staff
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CVS Caremark Corp. and Rite Aid Corp., two of the largest U.S. drugstore chains, said they are running short of influenza vaccines as an earlier and more severe flu season drives up demand from Michigan to New Jersey.
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By Shannon Pettypiece and Drew Armstrong |
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Gasoline prices remained stagnant in Rhode Island over the last week at $3.54 per gallon after rising 2 cents a week ago, AAA Southern New England said Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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The heyday of 109-year-old watch-and-watchband-brand Speidel was the skinny-tie era of the 1950s and 1960s, when the company employed hundreds in its Providence Jewelry District plant.
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By Patrick Anderson |