Natalie Myers
Hallmark among many buyers of Paramount assets
Since Paramount Cards Co. went into state receivership more than a month ago, its assets have attracted many bidders, including Hallmark Cards Inc., which...
ICOA finds the biggest growth in free services
If wireless Internet access were like candy, ICOA Inc. would be like the people in a parade throwing it to the crowd.
The Warwick-based...
Printer finds it pays to be versatile
In its 60 years, The Allied Group has reinvented itself several times.
First, it expanded from printing into a business-forms management services. Then, it added...
Microlender reaches out with new workstations
Erica Buchanan started her own house and office cleaning business, called Miss Meticulous, in South Kingstown about a year ago. Since then, she’s attracted...
Branch designs aim to be inviting, sell products
With competition in banking becoming as intense as it is in retail, it is little surprise that bank branches increasingly resemble stores, with the...
Entrepreneurs call for more coordinated resources
Rhode Island’s entrepreneurs have a number of agencies they can turn to for help with planning, budgeting, expansion, personnel and resource management, or business...
Group helps professionals who’ve immigrated to U.S.
Arelis Valerio knows firsthand the frustration immigrants feel when they move to the United States with professional degrees and years of experience, only to...
Artists scramble to relocate as developer takes over mill
It’s inevitable. That’s the way Nick Hollibaugh feels when discussing the relocation of his and fellow artist Ben Watkins’ 7,000-square-foot woodworking studio and metal...
Not your mother’s coffee table
CucumberLab
Owners: Ben Blanc, Andrew Reed
Type of business: Consulting and
product design
Location: 250 Esten Ave., Pawtucket
Employees: 2
Year established: 2004
Annual Sales: WND
Whether it’s a chrome coffee table...
Restoration program marks 1.25 million lobsters
Lanny Dellinger, a full-time lobsterman since the early 1990s, said the best thing to come out of a recently completed six-year lobster restoration program,...











