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LABEL-MAKING: NuLabel Technologies' leadership team, from left: President Max Winograd, Vice President of 
Engineering Michael Woods and Chief Technology Officer Ben Lux. They formed the company in 2009 after graduating from Brown University. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Firm hopes liner-free labels stick in marketplace

NuLabel Technologies is not a traditional company that had an innovative idea. It is a company that exists because of innovative thinking. The...
CROSSING THE BRIDGE: Garcia Insurance owner Jose Garcia, right, with customer Argemiro Gonzales, at his company's Central Falls office. Garcia completed the Bridges to Business program. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL PERSSON

Bridging gap between ideas and business success

An International Institute of New England program that last year expanded into Rhode Island to help small businesses on tight budgets has served 33...
GIVING BACK? Brown University is currently speaking with Mayor Taveras’ administration about how to help the city financially, a spokeswoman said. /

City, nonprofits seek common ground

In 2003, Providence was facing a deficit that, at the time, was unprecedented. In an attempt to help the city, four private universities –...
SPIRITED CREW: Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Co.’s systems department shows its Halloween spirit as the ‘Gilligan’s Island’ crew.

PHOTO COURTESY 
PROVIDENCE MUTUAL /

Parties ease tension and build staff camaraderie

The Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Co. is no stranger to this award. This is the company’s fifth year in a row being named one...
SHOWING HEART: Taco Inc. employees celebrate the American Heart Association’s National Start! Walking Day on April 6.

PHOTO COURTESY TACO /

Treating employees well keeps them coming back

Taco Inc. President John H. White Jr. sees his business as a community. And part of Taco’s philosophy of running a business is to...
PLAY BALL: With a baseball theme, it was not a stretch for 
Navigant Credit Union’s annual employee 
meeting to take place in ‘Fenway Park,’ 
complete with a 
‘Green Monster.’
 
Photo courtesy navigant credit union /

Attention to private lives and results in workplace

In the summer of 2010, Navigant Credit Union started an outreach program called VForce through which employees can take a day off with pay...

Town hydro project OK’d; funding ‘in limbo’

Four years after proposing the project, Slatersville Hydro has received the licensing exemption needed to build a hydroelectric power plant on the Branch River...
AIR TIME: David Piccerelli, right, president and CEO of Rhode Island PBS, speaks with a tech in the station’s systems room at its Providence studio. /

Bill would join PBS, Capitol TV

Sen. William A. Walaska is trying to help Rhode Island PBS by giving them Capitol Television, a consolidation that would require the General Assembly...
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