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Job Lot provides caring with vacations

PBN Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2025 Awards 1,500-4,999 EMPLOYEES #3. Ocean State Job Lot CEO (or equivalent): Marc Perlman, Principal owner and CEO Alan Perlman and...
LEVELING UP: Matt Bosgraaf, who began working at The Kayak Centre in North Kingstown nearly 25 years ago as a high school student providing basic waterside assistance and customer service tasks, was recently named a co-owner of the business, which features instruction, rentals and sales, alongside founder Jeff Shapiro.
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Expanding services, scope helps Kayak Centre cruise for nearly 30 years

As The Kayak Centre approaches its 30th anniversary in business this fall, Matt Bosgraaf has been there for most of its history. Bosgraaf, now 42,...
RACE DAY: Arnold Lumber Co. employees participate in the 200-mile ­Ragnar Relay Race from Groton, Conn., to Quincy, Mass. 
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Arnold Lumber Co.

Best Places to Work 2025 Awards #14 LARGE COMPANIES: Arnold Lumber Co. Local Employees: 175 CEO: Allison Arnold Questions answered by: Allison Arnold How has your company adapted programs...
A NEW LEVEL: Lincoln Pollock decided to open his own retail jewelry shop in Warren in February after years of making and selling jewelry from his Cranston home. 
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Arcwood Jewelry fits right in on eclectic Main Street in Warren

After years of making and selling homemade jewelry out of his Cranston home, Lincoln Pollock thought he was ready to make the leap from...
PROVIDENCE PLACE has instituted a ban on unsupervised youths in the mall after 5 p.m. every day and during school hours, but it remains to be seen if that policy pays off. / PBN FILE PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

‘A safer mall, but … an emptier mall’ after ban on...

The operators of Providence Place mall are requiring teens to be accompanied by adults after 5 p.m., but some observers are divided over whether...

Dollar Tree sells Family Dollar to private equity firms for $1B

Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to a pair of private equity firms for $1 billion after a decade of trying to make its...

Forever 21 in Warwick to close under parent’s bankruptcy plan

WARWICK – Another mall retail staple will be closing its doors for good. Forever 21 at the Warwick Mall on Bald Hill Road will be...
REPURPOSED: Felicia Neuhof is the founder and owner of Shellf Life, which transforms discarded seashells into surface materials for interior commercial and residential projects.
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Shellf Life gives mollusks a new identity

While other businesses struggle with rising costs of materials, a new venture in Providence founded by Felicia Neuhof takes advantage of a medium that...
CVS HEALTH CORP. is looking to open at least 12 pharmacy-only stores. / AP FILE PHOTO/JAIMIE DING

CVS plans to open at least 12 pharmacy-only stores in U.S.

PROVIDENCE – CVS Health Corp. is looking to shrink the size of some of its new stores. The pharmacy chain plans to open 12 or...
STILL GOING STRONG: Michael Gagnon, who founded Mike’s Estate Services in West Warwick in 1998, says much of his business these days comes from people looking to downsize their holdings or children of retired parents looking to unload inherited valuables. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

West Warwick consignment shop does the heavy lifting

Within a historic mill building in West Warwick, a treasure trove awaits. Founded in 1998, Mike’s Estate Services for more than 20 years has...
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