Eli Sherman
Eli Sherman is an award-winning journalist. He joined Providence Business News in November 2014 having previously worked as a metro reporter at the Waltham News Tribune. Sherman writes about economics, energy and the environment, entrepreneurship and finance. He's received top awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, The Alliance of Area Business Publishers, the New England Newspaper & Press Association and The Rhode Island Press Association.
Washington Trust finances N.J. acquisition
SICKLERSVILLE, N.J. – Washington Trust Commercial Real Estate Group last week financed an acquisition in the amount of $6.825 million for a multi-tenant retail...
Loiselle honored for insurance-ed. work
PAWTUCKET – The president of a Pawtucket insurance agency earlier this month was honored for 30 years of helping to advance insurance education.
Bob...
Mass. SOS announces ‘crowdfunding exemption’
BOSTON – Massachusetts secretary of state earlier this month announced a policy change to allow a “crowdfunding exemption” for investment offerings within the Bay...
Raimondo proclaims Credit Union Day
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo has proclaimed Jan. 14 as “Credit Union Day” to mark and celebrate 100 years of credit union services...
Citizens reports $865M in profit in 2014
PROVIDENCE – In what its CEO calls a “pivotal year,” Citizens Financial Group Inc. Monday reported net income of $865 million in 2014, an...
Raimondo: New plan for old problems needed
When Beth Cunha tells her students how some of the United States’ best colleges and universities are right here in Rhode Island, she often...
Companies eye local job growth
For more than a decade beginning in 2001, manufacturing jobs left the state and country in droves. But as Rhode Island’s economy slowly creeps...
Nontoxic care products find market
When Ava Anderson was 14 years old she became highly concerned with the listed ingredients she found in her personal-care products.
After doing a...
N.B. terminal not seen dependent on Cape Wind
Developers of the newly constructed, $113 million New Bedford marine terminal are optimistic about the future of wind energy and the facility itself, despite...
Confidence climbs, spending follows
If Rhode Island and the region have not emerged completely from their near decade-long economic funk, they certainly have pulled themselves out of the...
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