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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...
SMOOTH OPERATOR: 
Steven Alviti Sr. next 
to Bel Air Finishing 
Supply Corp.’s 
products. 
PBN PHOTO/
MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
RHODE ISLAND’S economy did not experience a "statistical recession" in 2023 as originally thought, according to University of Rhode Island economist and professor Leonard Lardaro.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
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