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EDESIA INC. is launching a Mother's Day donation drive to help feed starving children worldwide in response to the end of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Edesia launches donation drive after end of USAID funding

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Edesia Inc. on Wednesday launched a donation drive so the nonprofit manufacturer can continue providing food for malnourished people worldwide in...

Edesia’s warehouse piling up without new federal government orders

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Edesia Inc. President and founder Navyn Salem said the humanitarian aid agency's warehouse is once again piling up with life-saving food...

Edesia lays off 16 due to lack of USAID payments

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Edesia Inc. says it has laid off 16 workers, accounting for about 10% of its staff, due to a lack of...
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Musk: Edesia to receive USAID payment this week after months of...

NORTH KINGSTOWN – The Rhode Island humanitarian aid organization that was forced to halt production of lifesaving specialized foods for malnourished children will finally...

‘We’re literally waiting by the telephones’: Edesia inventory is moving, though...

NORTH KINGSTOWN – It's been an intense last couple of weeks for Edesia Inc. The Rhode Island-based humanitarian aid organization has seen a stop-work order...
MARIA VELEZ, left, and CEO Navyn Salem check food packages as they move along the production line at the Edesia plant in North Kingstown.
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Edesia to receive portion of $200M to relieve child hunger

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Since 2022, Edesia has nearly doubled the number of children its "ready-to-use therapeutic food" can reach globally. With a recent allocation of...
THE HONOREES of PBN's inaugural 25 Over Fifty-five event stand before Aldrich Mansion in Warwick on Thursday. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Inaugural 25 Over Fifty-five honorees feted for achievement, contributions

WARWICK – Corporate and entrepreneurial success were on display Thursday evening for 275 attendees at Providence Business News’ first 25 Over Fifty-five event held...

PBN C-Suite Awards 2019 special section

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LARGER SPACE: Edesia, a maker of food products for customers such as UNICEF that ship goods overseas to feed malnourished children, outgrew its original facility in Providence and made the move to the Quonset Business Park in North Kingstown in 2016, opening an 83,000-square-foot, high-tech factory. From left, Executive Director Maria Kasparian, founder and CEO Navyn Salem and HMI Controller Jorge Campos work in the factory.
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How much growth is left at Quonset?

Steven J. King rolls up in a company-issued sport utility vehicle to a graveled construction site in a wooded area, at the end of...

People, not machines, key to manufacturing success

The popular image of manufacturing is big machines making big things. But nothing could be further from the truth, as the profiles of the...
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