Rhonda Miller
Despite Sandy FM Global posts 2012 profit, reversing 2011 loss
JOHNSTON - FM Global, one of the world’s largest business property insurers, ended 2012 with posted revenue of $5.5 billion, an 8.6 percent increase...
Five Questions With: Joseph McNamara
State Rep. Joseph M. McNamara, D-Warwick, was first elected to the Legislature in 1994. He is chairman of the Health, Education and Welfare Committee....
Ameriprise’s Bryan gets Riversource award
EAST PROVIDENCE – Thomas R. Bryan of the East Providence-based Ameriprise Financial has received the 2012 Protect. Grow. Give. Award from Riversource Life Insurance...
Galvin fines Deutsche Bank Securities
BOSTON – The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin has fined Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank Akteingesellschaft...
Washington Trust finances Blackstone Place purchase
WESTERLY – Washington Trust’s Commercial Real Estate Group has provided $4.5 million in commercial mortgage financing for the acquisition of the Blackstone Place retail...
FM Global gets ‘AA’ rating from Fitch
JOHNSTON – FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, has received an “AA” – or very strong – financial strength rating...
Businesses at home in recycled shipping containers
There’s plenty that could go wrong with a business plan dependent on attracting small businesses to work in stacked shipping containers, beside a train...
Whiskey-making revived at mill site
It’s become a common question-and-answer scenario when Mike Reppucci tells someone about his business, Sons of Liberty Spirits Co.
“Did you know that whiskey starts...
RIF-funded projects tackle economic ills
The Rhode Island Foundation has put $630,000 into its belief that intensified collaborations among movers and doers can “Make It Happen” – “It” to...
Grant breathes life into self-employment program
Rhode Island workforce-development leaders are broadening the landscape for entrepreneurs with the revival of a state program that allows some residents collecting unemployment insurance...















