Baltimore bridge collapse: Ships carrying cars may need to find a...
Manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can load or unload cargo while the main operations of the Port of Baltimore remain shut...
Following sale, longtime Bradford Soap executive departs company
WEST WARWICK – Following 13 years with Bradford Soap Works Inc., and its 2023 sale to a Connecticut-based private equity firm, CEO Stuart Benton...
R.I. monthly unemployment rises to 3.9% in February
CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment in February was 3.9%, three-tenths of a percentage point higher than the previous month, the R.I. Department...
R.I. Site Readiness Program has $1.4M to spend; April 19 deadline...
(Editor’s note: This is the second in an occasional series focused on questions from Providence Business News readers for R.I. Commerce Corp. Secretary Elizabeth...
URI Research Foundation’s Rumsey, CIC’s Messier among PBN’s 2024 C-Suite Awards...
PROVIDENCE – Peter Rumsey, chief business development officer for the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation, has been named the 2024 Career Achiever for...
Meet the Makers: Bel Air focuses on finishing with a flourish
(Editor’s note: This is the 19th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
Lardaro: R.I. did not experience a ‘statistical recession’ in 2023
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s economy did not experience a "statistical recession" last year as originally believed, University of Rhode Island economist and professor Leonard...
Banneker Industries files for bankruptcy protection
WOONSOCKET – Banneker Industries Inc., an end-to-end supply chain and third party logistics company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Company CEO and President...
R.I. monthly unemployment rises to 3.6% in January
CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment in January was 3.6%, two-tenths of a percentage point higher than the previous month, the R.I. Department...
Southeastern Mass. manufacturers net $922K in state grants
NORTON – Five manufacturers in Bristol County, Mass., were awarded a combined total of $922,000 in Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program funding earlier this week.
The...


















