At conference, panelists focus on value of tourism as economic engine
Experts discuss energy around strategy to lure events like Formula One and the Super Bowl to New Jersey.
Retailers say Small Business Saturday has extra importance this year
The impact of Hurricane Sandy and an overall sales slowdown are reasons for concern to the owners of small shops.
Business groups set for battle as minimum wage hearings get under way
New Jersey's business groups are boosting their efforts to stop a bill that would increase the state minimum wage to $8.50 an hour and link annual adjustments to the Consumer Price Index.
Deals and Moves Nov. 19
Pharma marketing selection, video chat gaming platform, industrial property sale.
Podcast NJBIZ Briefcase 054 – Unconventional
Nurses sharing space with doctors, a utility trade group’s chief starts in mid-storm and Atlantic City turns to convention business to stave off the gaming slowdown. Those stories and more on NJBIZ Briefcase - Episode 054: Unconventional.
Development group completes turnaround of Summit project
A development group has filled its new state-of-the-art office building in Summit, three months after completing its transformation from a vacated medical property.
Chief executive of Newark Beth Israel leaving for Cleveland
Dr. John A. Brennan, chief executive of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, will run a Cleveland-based health system.
Lottery operator defends its reputation running games in other states
Though a retailers group is not wavering in its campaign against the Gov. Chris Christie administration's plans to privatize the sales and marketing operations of the New Jersey Lottery, a representative for one of the companies planning to bid on the state's proposal said the coalition's concerns are unfounded, based on the firm's existing...
N.J. development exec joins those spending night on N.Y. streets for fundraiser
Some 150 business leaders in Manhattan, and 500 across North America, took part in the second annual Sleep Out event, organized by the nonprofit Covenant House to raise funds and awareness of youth homelessness.
Hostess closing will put hundreds in N.J. out of work
The maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread had a number of Garden State locations, including a Wayne bakery and Trenton retail outlet.
Deals and Moves Nov. 16
Car rental merger approval, commercial leasing selection, retail property sales.
Longtime Christie adviser Palatucci named special counsel at Gibbons
Attorney William J. Palatucci, a longtime friend of Gov. Chris Christie, is joining Newark's Gibbons P.C. law firm as special counsel, according to an announcement by the firm this afternoon.