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COURTESY CHEF WALTER'S COOKING SCHOOL
COOKING WITH GAS: Employees from Henkle North America, in Rocky Hill, Conn. during a cooking class.

Chef has recipe to re-energize team

Finding fun-yet-useful corporate outings that can engage a diverse group of employees can be a challenge in colder weather, when the seashore and golf...
COURTESY NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/RIC MURRAYROLE PLAYING: Students work in the Mac Lab at the newly opened East Greenwich campus of New England Institute of Technology. The school looks to capitalize on a growing video game market.

NEIT a player in video gaming

The New England Institute of Technology’s newly opened $100 million East Greenwich campus positions the college to become a bigger player in the education...

Downgrade not affecting SBA lending

Small-business lenders in Rhode Island have not seen an increase in U.S. Small Business Administration-backed lending after the recent Standard & Poor’s downgrade of...
WASTE NOT: Bob Coia, owner of Coia Sanitation in Cumberland, once competed with several businesses in northern Rhode Island that did the same work. Today, there is only one other competitor in Cumberland. / PBN PHOTO/DAVID LEVESQUE

Coia survivor in shrinking industry

When Bobby Coia began his septic tank and cesspool-cleaning business back in 1978, there were approximately eight businesses in northern Rhode Island that did...
GOOD COMPANY: Sherri Lynn Carrera, small-business ombudsman for EDC, says that Every Company Counts has helped more than 3,000 small-business owners since she arrived. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Helping small businesses find right tools to succeed

According to the U. S. Small Business administration, small firms in Rhode Island made up 96.1 percent of the state’s employers in 2008. Small...
SOMETHING BREWING: Excellent Coffee Co. Vice President Mike Kapos, left, and President and CEO William Kapos, at their Pawtucket facility. William Kapos said that Donald R. Grebien is the first sitting mayor to visit the company in decades. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Grebien connects with top employers

From winning a Hasbro Inc. commitment to stay in the city to helping companies cope with the disruption caused by Interstate 95 work, Pawtucket...
BUILDING BLOCK: Neil Hall, foreground, building official for the town of Cumerbland, with Ken Rochefort, finish carpenter with KR Carpentry. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

State moves to speed permitting

Rhode Island Builders Association Director John V. Marcantonio hopes that a newly enacted law to speed the issuance of building permits in cities and...

Marra, restaurant-industry titan, found dead at 52

Dale J. Venturini, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Hospitality Association, remembers the late Stephen P. Marra, the founder of Marra Restaurant Group...
STREET ART: Yarrow Thorne, owner of Yarrow's Cans, has been helping to make graffiti an asset to the community. He's linked respected graffiti artists with businesses for murals, among other things. / PBN PHOTO/FRANK MULLIN

This graffiti seen as an attraction

After Joaquin Meza and his mother, Maria Meza, opened a Mexican restaurant in the Silver Lake section of Providence about four years ago, they...

Foreclosure rates in Providence metro area increase

PROVIDENCE – Foreclosure rates in the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River area increased in June when compared to the same month last year, according to CoreLogic. The...
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