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RIGHT CHOICE: TCMPi debuted a new Choice Events, a corporate-event, gift-giving concept, featuring lifestyle brand Alex and Ani, at the Promotional Products Association International Expo 2013 in Las Vegas in January. / COURTESY DON LUTKUS

Alex and Ani expanding partnership with TCMPi

Cranston-based jewelry company Alex and Ani and a Providence-based supplier of brand-name items for loyalty programs recently announced an expansion of a partnership that’s...
AT ITS PEAK: Teknor Apex President William J. Murray says that the company's acquisition of Sarlink has given it a complete suite of thermoplastic materials that serve all major markets. / COURTESY TEKNOR APEX

Teknor Apex sees opportunity in biodegradable plastics

Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate” may not have dedicated his life to plastics, but it worked out well for William Murray, the Lincoln...

Want to spur employment? Be a technology catalyst

As New Year’s well wishes and resolutions fade, Rhode Island is once again faced with a dichotomous workforce crisis: double-digit unemployment and the inability...

Starting an online business

Looking to start a business? If you want something with big potential that doesn’t take much startup capital, consider an online service of some...
ABSOLUTE SUCCESS: Kevin Wilbur, president and founder of Absolute Commerce, is putting more than a decade of executive-level experience in e-procurement to work at his startup. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

The Absolute way for firms to buy efficiently

Procurement deals between Global 2,000 companies and their suppliers can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and are increasingly fulfilled through software from...
William J. Murray

William J. Murray

William J. Murray has been appointed president at Teknor Apex Co., where he will be responsible for the company and also preside over Singapore-based...
SHOVELING OUT: Closing early Friday, Feb. 8, in advance of the blizzard, Warwick Mall didn't open again until the following Sunday morning. One of the biggest challenges was clearing the shopping center's 5,000-space parking lot. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Travel bans test business planning

“The show must go on” is such a powerful mantra in live theater that for decades fearsome storms that shut down every other type...
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS saw its operating income decline 29 percent over the year, as fee pressure, low interest rates and redemptions from active equity funds hurt revenue.  / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/BRENT LEWIN

Fidelity’s operating income falls 29% as clients pull money

BOSTON - Fidelity Investments, the second- largest U.S. mutual fund company, said operating income declined 29 percent as fee pressure, low interest rates and...
Sequestration could cost Rhode Island roughly 2,500 workers by September 2013, according to the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance. / COURTESY THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND DEFENSE INDUSTRY ALLIANCE

R.I. jobs at risk from sequestration, says defense group

MIDDLETOWN – Thousands of local jobs are at risk if sequestration is not averted and if Congress fails to complete a defense spending bill,...
FITCH RATINGS LTD. has rated Providence's $40 million general obligation bonds series 2013A as "BBB," outlook negative.  / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/SCOTT EELLS

Fitch rates Providence bonds ‘BBB,’ outlook negative

NEW YORK – Fitch Ratings has ranked Providence’s general obligation bonds as “BBB,” outlook negative, due to what the global ratings company said was...
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