The acquired company makes more than 1,200 specialized tools, including the Garden-Weasel, Pactool and Hawkeye brands, in a range of categories including environmental health and safety, precision measurement, home repair and remodeling, and lawn and garden.

GreatStar elevates Gary DuBoff, Melissa Karlovitch and James O’Rourke to new senior positions.

Longtime advisor Steven Sciortino joins the company from Princeton accounting firm Lear & Pannepacker LLP, where he was an equity partner.

BIA WEST, will employ 120 individuals when fully operational and serve retailers in California, Nevada, and part of Arizona.

Greenway Products & Services opened its third manufacturing plant this week, this one in Baltimore, within a night's drive of one-third of the country's population.

This is the 30th acquisition for the Jersey City-based packaging and janitorial supplies purveyor under the leadership of brothers Robert and Jason Tillis.

The organization's 3rd Party Client Survey showed that the state's manufacturers have reported more than $463 million in new and retained sales; nearly $300 million in process savings; and more than $366 million in capital improvements and investments.

The governor said he believed the bill would drain away money from much similar, direly needed programs across the state.

As the CEO of the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Kennedy is the face of the industry in New Jersey. And its most prominent voice. He has been a tireless advocate for policies that would promote manufacturing in the state -- a task that has become even more critical after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed dangerous weaknesses in supply chains.

Most of 2020 has been rough and Johnson & Johnson was not spared. The New Brunswick-based pharmaceutical giant spent much of the year in court fighting allegations that its talcum powder was responsible for cases of ovarian cancer because of asbestos in the product.

In the race to develop a vaccine against the COVID-19 at a record pace -- or as the Trump administration has called it, warp speed -- Merck has trailed Pfizer and Moderna, which are in the process of getting emergency federal approval for their vaccines.

Kendris fills several roles at pharmaceutical giant Novartis. He’s the president of East Hanover-based Novartis Corp. and as such is the U.S. country head. Kendris also chairs the company’s country leadership team, which consists of all the country and business heads. And he is the global head of litigation, a role he retained after past stints as general counsel of several Novartis units, including its vaccines business during the H1N1 epidemic.