With interest in women’s soccer at a fever pitch following the U.S. team’s World Cup triumph, New Jersey’s only professional franchise, Sky Blue FC, sees a golden opportunity to form partnerships with businesses around the state.

The location is set to open on July 15, marking the brand’s first location in Somerset County, and the sixth in the state.

Kelsen Group, best known for its iconic blue-tinned Royal Dansk cookies, employs approximately 400 people.

Splendor Design Group and Filter Advertising announced their merger on Thursday, with the companies operating under the former's brand moving forward.

"There's a real opportunity for people to come into the grocery store. Whether they need something for their kid's lunches or a bottle of wine, or they ran out of milk or need a dessert to go with their meal kit, [these are] things that the mail order meal kits don't allow for," said Kings Chief Merchandising Officer Stephen Corradini.

New Jersey earned an A grade for education, ranking fourth in the country. But the state received an F on cost of living – ranking 41st – and another failing grade on business friendliness – placing at number 44.

Jersey Boys LLC, a restaurant franchisee run by two homegrown brothers, expects to open one location in Somerset County in 2019 and two more in 2020 in Morris and Union counties. The remaining 12 are expected after 2020.

The “Healthy Way of Life” company will employ more than 400 people at the Somerset Corporate Center-based fitness destination in full-time, part-time and season positions—more than any other of the brand’s clubs at grand opening.

In June, the Rutgers Food Innovation Center allowed pouched baby food brand Kekoa Foods to present to thousands of attendees at what is widely regarded as the specialty food industry’s most important event, where nation-wide buyers from retailers and restaurants come to see what’s trending and what they should be putting on their shelves.

The Garden State came in behind New York and Connecticut.

The Camden-based company contended the claim is misleading because “the hydrolysis process, which turns oats into oatmilk, creates sugars ‘in situ’ as the oats are broken down into smaller components.”

A team from Cushman & Wakefield's East Rutherford office served as tenant broker in the 1,400-square-foot lease transaction.