Manufacturers will try team approach
Rhode Island manufacturers, who have seen their job base slip steadily
since the early 1980s, aim to reinvigorate themselves this spring by
forming a...
Top ten stories of 1998
1. Quonset Point/Davisville
With the announcement last month that international shippers SeaLand
and Maersk were taking Quonset Point off their list of sites to develop...
Year 2000 issues dominate, costing millions of dollars
For banking, call last year and this the years of the Y2K. For if
anything dominated the thoughts of bankers - prompted by the...
Strong early sales slow with economy’s slowdown
With low unemployment and consumer confidence at an all-time high,
retail sales were off to a fast start in 1998. The first six months...
Home sales enjoy record 1998, slowdown expected
High consumer confidence, low unemployment, and mortgage rates that
dipped under 7 percent conspired to make 1998 a record year for single-
family homes...
High tech community needs qualified workers
IT workers.
Finding and hiring them.
Those are the issues that dominated the world of high tech companies in
Rhode Island and around the country this...
Top Quotes for 1998 extoll quality, optimism
"Quality is not expendable, not a
negotiable value." -- Ed Quinlan,
executive vice president of Hospital
Association of Rhode Island, commenting
on the quality...
For small business, it was the best of years
John M. Mallon said it was good to be a small business in 1998.
The president of Cranston's Yushin America, Inc., a manufacturer of
robots...
Business Notes
BANKING
Peter Walsh has been appointed director of retail lending at Bank
Rhode Island. He will be responsible for overall strategy and product
development for...
SCORE builds e-mail link to clients, despite fund cuts
High tech counseling methods have helped extend the reach of the Service
Corps of Retired Executives, which has struggled to promote itself since
losing...
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