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Vacancy along North Jersey’s main retail corridors ticked down through midyear, but the region is still grappling with the effects of several big-box retail bankruptcies in 2009.

C.R. Bard Inc. has agreed to acquire Rochester Medical Inc., a developer and supplier of silicone urinary incontinence and urine drainage products, for about $262 million, or $20 a share.

South Brunswick pharmaceutical company Tris Pharma has inked a licensing agreement to commercialize Karbinal ER, the first time-release drug that treats allergic rhinitis in children aged 2 and older.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop's plan to make his city the first in New Jersey to require employers to provide paid sick days is drawing support from unions and advocacy groups, but opposition from business lobbyists — who are also fighting a bill in Trenton that would mandate paid sick time for all New Jersey workers.

Taking advantage of the eyes on the U.S. Open, Prince Global Sports, of Bordentown, announced Wednesday an alliance with The Lalonde Group to grow the Prince brand in Canada.

Small-business employment in New Jersey rose slightly in August, defying a slight drop seen across the country, according to a recent survey of some 200,000 small businesses.

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Manufacturing across the country grew in August, rising to its highest point of the year, according to a survey of the nation’s supply executives.

A voter-approved bond for higher education construction took center stage today, when state officials unveiled an $86 million project to transform a former Newark high school into new facilities for the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Birdsall Services Group, the Monmouth County engineering firm that went bankrupt after admitting violating the state’s pay-to-play law, has been ordered to pay $1 million in criminal penalties, according to state Assistant Attorney General Thomas R. Calcagni.