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Lists: Commercial & Industrial Services Companies

Ranked by oldest companies: 1. Gilbane Inc. | Year founded: 1870 2. Paolino Properties LP | Year founded: 1900 3. CBRE Inc. | Year founded: 1906 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view...

Lists: Rhode Island Business and Industrial Parks

Total acreage: 8,899 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or corrections, call (401)...
A SIMPLER SYSTEM? Attorney Zachary Stolz, a law partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick Ltd. 
who works on veterans affairs, is hopeful that the Dole Act, signed into law in January, will streamline the disability benefit process. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Veteran benefits, including in workplace, boosted under the wide-ranging Dole Act

In 20-plus years representing thousands of clients who are military veterans, Zachary Stolz, a law partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick Ltd., has seen...
Victoria Cimino / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Five Questions With: Victoria Cimino

Victoria Cimino | CEO and president, Discover Newport 1. As the new CEO and president of Newport’s tourism bureau, what is your strategic vision...

R.I. manufacturers bracing for pain

As fluctuating tariff orders implemented by President Donald Trump’s administration continue to rattle the global economy, manufacturers in Rhode Island are bracing for higher...

Lists: Veteran Employers

Ranked by total local employees: 1. Brown University Health | Total no. of local employees: 21,161 2. Amica Mutual Insurance Co.| Total no. of local employees: 1,520 3. Providence College...

Lists: Intellectual Property Lawyers

Ranked by total lawyers: 1. Adler Pollock & Sheehan PC | Total lawyers: 52 2. Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP | Total lawyers: 49 3. Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP...
BIG BOOST: Kristin Costa runs her small business, Pinch of Fancy LLC, with the help of culinary business incubator Hope & Main in Warren, but she started in her own kitchen and was helped by Rhode Island relaxing laws against homemade food businesses in 2022. 
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MICHAEL SALERNO

Cottage food industry booming after state relaxes homemade food sale laws

The cottage food industry in Rhode Island is booming. What were once side hustles – selling homemade food items made out of one’s own...
DEEP THERAPY: Float Rhode Island co-owners Lindy Fregeolle and Scott Mitchell with one of their float therapy pods, in which a person floats in a heated mixture of water and Epsom salts, which reduces or eliminates the senses so the mind and body can slow down and relax. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Warwick wellness studio specializes in float therapy

After just 15 minutes into his first session of float therapy, Scott Mitchell fell into a deep meditation. Mitchell, who was looking for a way...

Does primary care plan have a shot at solving crisis?

Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s new multipronged plan to shore up the state’s sinking primary care system has some in the industry questioning whether it...
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