According to a survey by the online small-business community Manta, nearly half of small retailers are optimistic about holiday sales this year. Sherri Cronin, executive director of Downtown Westfield Corp., said she's upbeat as well.

It's rare to hear of professional athletes giving fans tours of team locker rooms, or fans getting to walk across the same field upon which their sports heroes play, but the New York Red Bulls are offering those opportunities as part of the team's first ever fan fest.

Anchen acquired; packaging contracts executed; natural gas credit.

The New Jersey host committee for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been chosen and includes the governor’s brother and other close confidants, NJBIZ has learned.

Several experienced lenders have joined together to form a new funding firm in Hackensack to provide money to commercial real estate when traditional funding is unavailable.

New Jersey's private sector added 4,000 jobs in October, while the unemployment rate dropped 0.1 percentage points, to 9.1 percent, according to state officials.

New Jersey residents continued to move to other states last year, despite a national downturn in mobility.

A Cherry contract; Snooki app released; A.C. Moore acquisition completed.

In response to the continued demand for outsourced IT infrastructure, Telx announced Thursday it will add to its existing New Jersey data center portfolio by building a purpose-built facility next to its existing Clifton data center.

With operations already in Illinois and Minnesota, Student Transportation Inc. solidified its footprint in the Midwest with the acquisition of Wisconsin-based Dairyland Bus Inc.