UNFI Q4 loss narrows to $37M; shares surge on sales jump
PROVIDENCE – United Natural Foods Inc. on Tuesday said its fourth-quarter loss narrowed to $37 million, or 63 cents a share, from a loss...
REGENT Craft Inc. gets OK for $4M more in incentives from...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. board on Monday awarded REGENT Craft Inc. $4 million in combined financing and tax incentives in anticipation of...
Lifespan finalizes $175M purchase of 2 Mass. hospitals
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. has officially purchased two hospitals in Massachusetts from Steward Health Care.
The state’s largest health system announced Tuesday it finalized the...
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that...
Lifespan and city reach $1.5M PILOT agreement
PROVIDENCE – After almost a year of discussions, Lifespan Corp. and the city have come to a tentative $1.5 million payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement.
The agreement would...
Insurer FM signs on as principal partner of team in new...
JOHNSTON – Rhode Island-based commercial property insurer FM says it is the principal partner of Boston Common Golf, one of six teams in TGL...
New member joining Citizens Financial board as a longtime member is...
PROVIDENCE – Citizens Financial Group Inc. says Claude E. Wade has been appointed to the company’s board of directors, starting March 1 next year,...
BankFive’s Macinnes named to Junior Achievement board
FALL RIVER – Sharon Macinnes, vice president of risk management and Community Reinvestment Act officer for BankFive, has been named a board member of...
CVS to lay off 2,900 workers companywide in new round of...
WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. told its employees Monday that it will lay off thousands of employees as part of efforts to cut costs,...
Former Wyatt correctional officer sentenced in contraband scheme
PROVIDENCE – A former Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility correctional officer was sentenced on Monday for attempting to smuggle contraband inside the facility, U.S....
