Demolition began Tuesday on the former Grants and Acme shopping center, in Clementon, a move designed to make way for the long-awaited redevelopment of the 30-acre site, which is to include a mix of townhomes and commercial space, which could include office, retail and restaurant tenants.

Private-sector companies added 110,000 jobs in October, according to the latest National Employment Report prepared by Automatic Data Processing, released this morning.

California acquisition; trans-Atlantic gaming; $8.5 million in new capital.

Parsippany-based B&G Foods announced Friday it entered into a deal with Unilever to buy Culver Specialty Brands in a $325 million deal it said should immediately add to B&G's earnings and cash flow.

Over the past several years, Billtrust President and CEO Flint Lane continually found his billing solutions customers were overlapping with collections clients of SunGard, a large, private IT company that specializes in financial services.

In a move to broaden its presence in Asia, Toys R Us announced Tuesday it has purchased a majority stake in retailer Li & Fung Group's existing business operations in China and Southeast Asia.

An executive said the thinking behind J.H. Cohn LLP's acquisition of Kostin, Ruffkess & Co. LLC, based in Farmington, Conn., was to help the Roseland-based accounting firm compete on a larger scale, and stand out from the smaller, local firms throughout New England.

New Jersey is poised to see a huge reduction of harmful air pollutants from a coal-fired Pennsylvania power plant, thanks to the federal Environmental Protection Agency's approval of New Jersey's Clean Air Act petition.

Adding to its growing personal protection product line, Honeywell International Inc. announced Tuesday it has agreed to acquire King’s Safetywear Ltd., a Singapore-based footwear provider, for roughly $338 million.

Genie's out of the bottle; new mortgages; distribution marriage dissolved.