Friday, March 29, 2024

TOPICS

Small Business

R.I. business applications up 30% over pre-pandemic levels

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has seen a nearly 30% increase in new business applications since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Chamber of...
SEEKING CLIENTS: Robert Wheeler, co-owner of Friends of Toto Inc., a dog day care and grooming business in Pawtucket, spent $400,000 to double his business space to accommodate growing customer demand but now he must find additional customers to cover the construction costs of expansion.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Preppin’ for RECESSION. PBN survey: Talk of a coming downturn is...

If and when the country will slip into a recession depends on who you ask, but the gloom is already settling over Rhode Island...
KARL WADENSTEN, second from left, CEO and president of VIBCO Inc., makes a point during the panel discussion at Providence Business News' 2023 Economic Trends Summit in Providence on Thursday. Also on the panel is, from left, Thomas Tzitouris, head of fixed income research at Stratgas; Peter R. Phillips, senior vice president and chief investment officer at Washington Trust Wealth Management; Julietta Georgakis, chief of staff for the R.I. Executive Office of Commerce; and Kevin Casey, vice president of sales at Sweeney Real Estate & Appraisal. At far right is PBN Editor Michael Mello, the moderator. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN summit panel: Economic indicators say recession coming in 2023

PROVIDENCE – In many ways, the party is over. At least that's the way the panelists at Providence Business News’ Economic Trends Summit on Thursday...

PBN named ‘Newspaper of the Year,’ honored for minority business series

PROVIDENCE ­– For the third year in a row, Providence Business News has been recognized as “Newspaper of the Year” among specialty publications by...
FEELING THE SPIRIT: Providence Place mall reported an increase in visitors to the mall in the first weekend of the holiday shopping season, placing the rise at about 3% above a year earlier. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. shopping centers feeling merry about December despite economic challenges

Crowded stores and stronger-than-expected sales have analysts predicting that the rest of the holiday shopping season will be a banner one despite higher prices,...

Mother Earth Wellness set to begin cannabis sales in Pawtucket

PAWTUCKET – On Wednesday dozens of employees of what will be the state’s largest retail marijuana center were still putting the final touches inside...
Jason Albuquerque

Cyber Sessions: Meeting the ‘reasonable’ security standard

(Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a monthly column on the growing number of cyberthreats facing businesses of all sizes and what...

Cyber Sessions: Stay in your lane? Not on cyberthreats

(Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a monthly column on the growing number of cyberthreats facing businesses of all sizes and what...

Do you support Providence’s evolving racial reparations plan?

The Providence City Council will soon take up spending recommendations for the city’s still-evolving racial reparations program designed for Black and Indigenous residents. The proposals...

DBR issues stay of Ballard’s liquor license suspension

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Business Regulation sided with Ballard's Beach Resort Wednesday, issuing a stay of New Shoreham Board of License Commissioners'...
- Featured Event -

Latest News