Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 2000 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Aetna's plan to split elicits little faith. | Business, regional | |
American Eagle Outfitters flying high. | Business, regional | Hope Yen |
American Home to buy Collegeville complex. | Business, regional | |
An empire expands, quietly.(CertainTeed may be little known, but its products are integral parts of many buildings.) | Business, regional | Claire Furia Smith |
A new hand on the reins at Bethlehem Steel Corp. | Business, regional | |
A postcard campaign costs Bell and extra $250,000. | Business, regional | Thomas Fitzgerald |
Artificial-turf company is laying out plans for growth.(The Conshohocken firm (Sprinturf Inc.) makes Sprinturf, a surface that has addressed the shortcomings of its predecessors.) | Business, regional | Leslie C. Wood |
Bala Cynwyd firm accused of violating embargo.(Brotech Corp.) | Business, regional | Kristin E. Holmes |
Banks on an insurer buying binge. | Business, regional | |
Big gains outweigh loss at Comcast. | Business, regional | |
Biotech settles with fired CEO for $4 million. | Business, regional | Thomas Kupper |
Bucks company's clothing helps athletes stay cool.(Lontex, a Perkasie firm, makes garments of Coolmax, a stretchy fabric that keeps skin dry.) | Business, regional | Zlati Meyer |
Bucks fastener company takes off with high-tech.(Brief Article) | Business, regional | |
Burlington Coat adds flowers to its ensemble.(The company's latest venture moves it into home goods.) | Business, regional | Lauren Mayk |
California firm to buy Media's LaserLink.net. | Business, regional | |
CDNow, Columbia House end merger deal, plan 'strategic relationships'. | Business, regional | Leslie J. Nicholson |
CDNow pledges to cut quarterly costs by $12 million. | Business, regional | |
CEO out as Mediq misses a payment.(The Pennsauken company's accounting has concerned auditors.)(Brief Article) | Business, regional | |
Changed Ikon looks to communicate. | Business, regional | |
Chester shipyard is closed by Metro. | Business, regional | Dan Hardy |
Comcast, Disney extend deadline on cable contract for ABC.(The one-week delay means Comcast customers won't lose programming tomorrow for Disney network affilitates, including WPVI-TV, Channel 6.) | Business, regional | Patricia Horn, Gail Shister |
Cooking up plastics to order; LNP takes raw resins and adapts them to meet consumer-product manufacturers' needs. | Business, regional | |
Developer now thinks dot-com.(A long-vacant building on 30th Street near Girard Avenue is being marketed as a center for Internet companies.) | Business, regional | |
Drug firm sells 2 lines to rivals. | Business, regional | |
Drug slows onset of MS, study finds.(Patients who had early signs of the disease were given Avonex.) | Business, regional | Shankar Vedantam |
Electric Factory Concerts is sold. | Business, regional | Dan DeLuca |
Electronics boutique matches competing bid for games retailer. | Business, regional | |
Electronics Boutique won't top rival bid. | Business, regional | |
Entrepreneur turns to new form of printing.(John H. Foster) | Business, regional | |
Fairless to lay off 20% of workers. | Business, regional | Lee Drutman |
Fighting HIV and the law, an immigrant sits in limbo.(Dominican Republican with AIDS may be deported for violating 1996 immigration law) | Business, regional | Sudarsan Raghavan |
Fish tossers hooked on workplace. | Business, regional | Nita Lelyveld |
For a new Internet firm, cultivating farmers is the way to reap profits. | Business, regional | |
For one fiber-optics giant, Bucks County is a place in which to grow. | Business, regional | Claire Furia Smith |
Gene-therapy firm fetches $120 million.(Biotech leader Human Genome Sciences buys a tiny Norristown firm with a promising technology.) | Business, regional | |
Growth is off the ground for jet-part firm's units. | Business, regional | Rosland Gammon-Briggs |
Holt Group charts a course for its survival. | Business, regional | Henry J. Holcolm |
Home builder planning to be web provider. | Business, regional | David J. Wallace |
Hospital financial outlook is gloomy; Moody's saw little chance of improvement soon at not-for-profit institutions. | Business, regional | |
Huge whistle-blower award resored in SmithKline case. | Business, regional | |
ICG's new partner is a top Hong Kong power broker. | Business, regional | |
Internet provider criticized for outage. | Business, regional | Graig D. Rose |
Jefferson disappearing from local scene. | Business, regional | |
Jefferson to pay $2.6 million to settle research-fraud case. | Business, regional | Stacey Burling |
Juniper planning online banking. | Business, regional | Joseph DiStefano |
Kimeragen hopes merger will help marketing, funding. | Business, regional | |
Knickknack man's next product is health. | Business, regional | Petricia Horn |
Kvaerner shipyard gets new leader.(Philadelphia, Penn.-based Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard appoints a new chief executive officer) | Business, regional | Holcomb Henry J. |
Mack celebrates 100 years as it faces an uphill grind.(Allentown, Penn.-based Mack Trucks Inc. hurt by decline in heavy-truck market) | Business, regional | Bill Bergstrom |
MBNA keeps charging ahead. | Business, regional | |
MBNA settles suit over card ads.(At issue was the interest charged for new purchases.) | Business, regional | Joseph Di Stefano |
Microsoft: not too broken up. | Business, regional | Jim Lynch, Jeff Manning |
Monsanto ordered to pay Pa. damages; a jury awarded the state $90 million for PCB contamination of offices. The firm plans to appeal. | Business, regional | Ken Dilanian |
Montco developer accused of evading federal taxes. | Business, regional | Sundarsan Raghavan, Diane Mastrull |
MP3.com hit with suit from ex-Beatle's firm. | Business, regional | Derek Caney |
New building materials: framework for future? | Business, regional | Mike Madden |
N.J. court delays ruling on lawyers' plan to share offices. | Business, regional | Emilie Lounsberry |
Pa. audit faults shipyard expenses; the auditor general says Kvaerner used government funds to pay for barbecues, art and moving expenses. | Business, regional | Henry J. Holcomb, Ken Kilanian |
Packaging plant to shut, lay off 165. | Business, regional | |
Pa. leads country in school strikes.(State of Pennsylvania has more teacher strikes than any other US state) | Business, regional | Connie Langland |
Pa. to aid growth of two firms in area. | Business, regional | Joseph N. DiStefano, Robert Sanchez |
Penn, family settle suit in gene-therapy death. | Business, regional | Huntly Collins |
Portland's RedChip.com agrees to a merger deal. | Business, regional | Boaz Herzog |
PQ Corp. grants early retirement to its CEO. | Business, regional | Michael Sandler |
PQ Corp. grants early retirement to its CEO. | Business, regional | Michael Sandler |
Quick strike from street on behalf of Eagles.(City Council may provide $23 mn for Philadelphia Eagles football training center) | Business, regional | Christopher K. Hepp |
QVC takes on Web site in Internet-trademark suit.(West Chester, Penn.-based QVC Inc. files trademark infringement lawsuit against AdultQVC.com) | Business, regional | Sudarsan Raghavan |
RCN plans cable in north part of city first; if Council backs a pact, residents could choose between two providers of television service.(Brief Article) | Business, regional | |
Refinery incidents lead to charges.(The city accuses Sunoco of 15 violations after fires and pollution this summer in South Philadelphia.) | Business, regional | Mark Jaffe |
Reliance to sell claims business. | Business, regional | |
Retailer to buy a rival toy chain. | Business, regional | |
Rival to buy local biotech pioneer Genovo; the Sharon Hill firm was the major corporate backer of gene therapy research at Penn. Those ties will end. | Business, regional | Andrea Knox, Huntly Collins |
SEPTA approves Reading rail line. | Business, regional | Julie Stoiber |
Shared medical cuts 8% of staff.(The firm laid off about 600, including 300 in Malvern.)(Brief Article) | Business, regional | Susan Warner, Mary Blakinger |
Siemens to buy Malvern company. | Business, regional | |
Slumping soup sales hurt Campbell's performance. | Business, regional | |
SmithKline says profits rose 10%. | Business, regional | |
SmithKline to back Penn's gene program.(Funding for basic research)(Statistical Data Included) | Business, regional | Huntly and Knox Collins Andrea |
Software maker SAP to add nearly 600 jobs.(Philadelphia, Penn.-based SAP America Inc. to build 3 research and development centers) | Business, regional | Mary Blakinger |
Soverign to lay off 500 workers.(The Bank Will not Cut Jobs at its Branches.)(Brief Article) | Business, regional | Jopseph N. DiStelfano |
Spending increase proposed at DRPA.(Delaware River Port Authority will spend $95.9 mn in 2001) | Business, regional | Joseph A. Gambardello |
Start-up try out their Internet acts at iLounge. | Business, regional | Bruce Bigelow, Mike Drummond |
Sunoco earnings up 300 pct. | Business, regional | |
Sycamore Group solves cash-flow problem. | Business, regional | Joseph N. DiStephano |
Tab for Stadiums: $1.2 Billion. | Business, regional | Clea Benson, Cynthia Burton |
Tenet cutting back on physician-practice network. | Business, regional | |
Through the Internet to Fido. | Business, regional | Leslie C. Wood |
Union maintenance workers protest dismissal.(Brief Article) | Business, regional | |
US Airways reports a $30 million loss.(The airline blamed competition and fuel costs.) | Business, regional | |
Utility makes profitable changes. | Business, regional | Wenda Tanaka |
Vanguard agrees to buy 245 acres for growth. | Business, regional | |
Verizon backs laws on cell-phone use while driving.(The wireless service provider (Verizon Wireless Inc.) said it would support state regulations requiring the use of hands-free devices.) | Business, regional | Zlati Meyer |
Verizon deal has majority approval. | Business, regional | |
W. Chester firm's bid accepted. | Business, regional | |
Web site aims for older users; ThirdAge Media's target audience is ages 45 to 65. | Business, regional | Matthew Bell |
With fine wine and mucnchies, a local dot-com is launched. | Business, regional | Miriam and Tanaka Hill Wendy |
With stadiium plans unveiled, it's time for some fast thinking.(Funding) | Business, regional | Andrew Cassel |
Worms are good for area firm; Ecogen sees possible profit in worm-fighting genes. | Business, regional | |
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