Tag: Business Woman
Through thick and thin, she keeps urban B&B running
When Monica Hopton was a teenager, her father and stepmom bought a bed-and-breakfast on Nantucket. The island surroundings were lovely, and the B&B was...
4 decades later, Felag’s store stays in vogue
PBN Business Women Awards 2026
ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE:
Elaine Felag, Feminine Fancies
For more than four decades, Elaine Felag has owned and operated Feminine Fancies, an upscale women’s...
Store owner proves fluent in creativity
Packing up and moving to a new country when you don’t speak the language isn’t most people’s idea of a good time. But for...
Zhukov is building a community out of blown glass
A furnace the size of a Mini Cooper presides like an industrial centerpiece over the space that is Blackstone River Glass LLC.
Inside the furnace’s...
She’s on a journey curating trips for clients
Erica Davies’ heart belongs to Cranston. “It’s the center of the universe,” she said. “I’m super proud to have grown up there. I live...
On land or sea, her mind is always on the décor
When Cheryl DiGennaro was growing up, she’d watch her mom, an interior designer, working on various projects; that passion passed from mother to daughter.
“I...
Thayer’s drive, work ethic added up to success
Marsha Thayer didn’t seem like a typical math nerd in high school. Far from it.
“I aced pre-algebra and then started failing,” she said, “which...
Fabric of her company crafted from a hobby
Katy Westcott is a designing woman. She knits socks and crochets sweaters. She spins yarn and even sews her own clothes. So her life...
4 decades later, Felag’s store stays in vogue
There’s no obvious connection between customers at a women’s boutique needing help with a chunky necklace and customers at an appliance store needing help...
She’s put her resources into building an HR firm
There’s a truism in life that you can’t go home again, but whoever coined it obviously hadn’t met Patricia Lyons-Bousquet.
After decades working around the...
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