Tag: Covid-19
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...
Stable but smaller, Providence office market is shifting
Providence’s downtown office market has, for now, weathered the existential threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic better than some communities.
But the market is changing,...
She’s put her resources into building an HR firm
PBN Business Women Awards 2026
ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE:
Patricia Lyons-Bousquet, CompLyons HR Consulting LLC
Patricia Lyons-Bousquet launched CompLyons HR Consulting LLC in 2023 out of the East Providence...
From Chamber leader to economic strategist
PBN Business Women Awards 2026
WOMAN TO WATCH | PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Elizabeth Catucci, Partnership for Rhode Island executive director
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Rhode Island in...
America250-Enduring Success: Palagis Ice Cream
(Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a weekly series featuring Rhode Island’s oldest companies as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of...
BANKS, BUSINESS, BIOTECH: William Tsonos has emerged as a key influencer...
William C. Tsonos has spent years climbing the ranks of Rhode Island banking, and now he’s taking on an additional role outside the industry...
URI’s W. Alton Jones Campus to reopen
WEST GREENWICH – An initiative has been launched to reopen the University of Rhode Island’s W. Alton Jones Campus within five years, the school...
Retail sales unchanged in December from November, closing out year on...
NEW YORK (AP) – Shoppers pulled back the pace of their spending in December from November, closing out the holiday shopping season and the...
Some companies tie AI to layoffs, but the reality is more...
The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure about being laid off from Amazon last week is that it wasn’t a failure to...
U.S. consumer confidence falls to lowest level since 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. consumer confidence declined sharply in January, hitting the lowest level since 2014 as Americans grow increasingly concerned about their financial...
- Featured Event -
