Many New Jersey companies lack alternative supply chains, inhibiting their ability to be more flexible, author Lora Cecere told attendees at the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program’s Transportation, Logistics and Distribution Summit Thursday at Middlesex County College.

Auto parts distributor KSI Trading Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Richmond Tidewater Bumper, of Mechanicsville, Va., upping its employee total at the company to about 700.

Consumer goods manufacturer Newell Brands signed definitive agreements to sell two businesses, Pure Fishing and Jostens, it announced Wednesday.

The New Jersey Institute of Technology is creating the School of Applied Engineering and Technology within the university’s Newark College of Engineering, it announced Tuesday.

Recent figures from the U.S. Department of Labor indicate unemployment for African-American and Hispanic workers are at record lows — 6.5 percent for blacks, and 4.5 percent for Hispanics/Latinos — as of the third quarter.

A company in upstate New York sells an iPad-controlled bricklaying robot — which the firm says can speed up bricklaying by a factor of five, and has already been used to build apartments in Chicago and a university building in Alabama — but a New Jersey bricklayer union official said he’s not worried about the high-tech device.

Morris Plains-based technology manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. has completed its spin-off of home technology firm Resideo Technologies, Honeywell said Tuesday.

Article is relocating its distribution center to Jersey City from Elizabeth in a move that finds the furniture and decor brand more than doubling its footprint in the state.

Parsippany-based food manufacturer B&G Foods completed its sale of Pirate Brands today to the tune of approximately $420 million.

Amazon will hold a hiring event Wednesday in Elizabeth as it works towards a goal of hiring for more than 9,000 part-time and seasonal positions in New Jersey.