TV image building key to furniture business’ success
Company name: Chariho Furniture
Owners: Ed Smith, Carol Smith (Ed's mother)
Number of employees: 11
Type of business: High-end country furniture and accessories
Year Founded: 1987
Annual Revenues: $2.5...
Rhode Island News Briefs
Stanley-Bostitch transferring work; layoffs loom
EAST GREENWICH -- Stanley Fastening Systems, a division of Stanley Works,
announced last week that about 200 workers at the...
Massachusetts News Briefs
Worcester medical center reorganizing
WORCESTER -- A major reorganization has been announced by the UMass
Memorial Health Care medical center, involving the closing of four...
Malachowski’s salary suit coincidental to election
The man who heads the state's Public Utilities Commission, and has presided over a number of decisions needed to implement competition in the energy...
Know-how and location keys to RI Buckle Co.’s success
In a climate of financial belt-tightening among local manufacturers, the
Rhode Island Buckle Company has managed to take its business up a notch
in...
As manufacturing fades, skilled work raises hopes
The state's manufacturing job base, which began sliding in the early 1980s with defense industry cuts, will continue its gradual decline into the next...
Microfibres has high hopes for new upholstery product
Remember Naugahyde? In the late 1960s, manufacturers of car seats to sofas helped turn Uniroyal's imitation leather into a household name. Today, a Pawtucket...
Despite tumult overseas RI exports are up
The international trade markets are indeed in turmoil. The Asian economies are tumultuous. Russia's economy is struggling to survive.
But despite dramatic global economic...
R.I.’s Sunday work law is unique in U.S., Chamber says
Rhode Island is apparently the only U.S. state that requires manufacturers to pay employees overtime if they work a Sunday shift, even if they...
United Way shifts focus to social issues in ad drive
You won't mistake ads for the local United Way airing on television this week for those of a bank or insurance company. They won't...
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