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Breakaway KofP Wealth Manager, 48-year Career Featured in Wall Street Journal
Most people are retired by their 70th birthday, but Gerald Strid instead saw an opportunity to co-found, with his sons in 2014, King of Prussia’s Concentus Wealth Advisors, writes Norb Vonnegut for The Wall Street Journal. A relatively small fish in the world of wealth management, controlling assets of around $420 million, Concentus is part…
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U.S. Women’s Field Hockey Team Still in Good Shape to Capture Medal
Despite its 2-1 loss to Great Britain on Saturday at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the U.S. women’s field hockey team, comprised mostly of players who hail from the Greater Philadelphia area, is still in good shape. The United States, which finished second in Group B, will continue its quest for its first medal…
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Norristown Native Swims around Bermuda in Record Time
Norristown Native Lori King, an open water marathon swimmer and member of the CIBBOWS, finished the 36.5 mile swim around Bermuda in a record 21:19:45, according to a staff report from Swimming World. King, a graduate of Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School, started the swim on June 15th at 12:00 p.m. local time at Elbow…
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Four Montgomery County Schools Make Newsweek’s Top 500 List of Best High Schools
Four high schools from Montgomery County have made it onto the Newsweek’s America’s Top High Schools listing for 2016, once more confirming the high quality of education in the area. Newsweek assessed schools across the country based on a number of criteria, among them their student retention, counselor-student ratio, graduation rates, college enrollment rates, as…
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Valley Forge Tourism Board Uses PokeMarketing Genius to Promote Montgomery County
For those still “Zubats” over PokemonGo, the Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board (VFTCB) has you covered. Their new website, PokeMontCo offers the inside scoop on everything Pokemon. While experts anticipate the excitement over PokemonGo to dwindle as school approaches and others can’t wait for the craze to be over, the VFTCB encourage fans to…
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Regions’ Field Hockey Stars Help US Women’s Team Defeat Two Olympic Favorites
The United States women’s field hockey team, consisting mostly of players from the Philadelphia area, has already managed to topple two favorites in the first three days of the Olympics giving hope they might win a medal for the first time since the 1984 Los Angeles games, writes Ryan Lawrence for Philly Voice. In addition…
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Wayne’s Ira Saligman, Aviator, Philanthropist, and Investor Dies Aged 53
Wayne ‘s aviator, philanthropist, and real estate investor, Ira M. Saligman, died on Sunday aged 53, from injuries sustained after his vintage aircraft caught fire while landing in West Mifflin, writes Bonnie L. Cook for Philly.com. The cause of the fire in the World War II-era plane is undetermined and occurred while Saligman was heading…
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King of Prussia’s Morgan Properties Acquires Half a Billion in Multifamily Investments This Year
Following its established plan of growth for this year, King of Prussia’s Morgan Properties JV, an affiliate of Morgan Properties, has acquired a portfolio of fourteen apartment communities totaling over 4,200 units. With this latest purchase, it has positioned itself as one of the country’s largest and fastest growing multifamily owners and operators. The communities…
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Philadelphia Union Visit Thrills Flourtown Day Camp Participants
For the third year in a row, the Philadelphia Union’s “The U on Tour” program stopped by Flourtown Day Camp at the invitation of the Director Danny Collins to the delight of both children and parents, writes Andrew Robinson for The Reporter. During Wednesday’s visit, the team brought a large inflatable soccer net with targets…
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Judge Group Recognized for 2016 Growth
West Conshohocken’s The Judge Group has “once again been recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts on their 2016 list for Largest Staffing Firm in the US and Largest IT Staffing Firm in the US,” according to an article by Yahoo Finance. A leading professional services firm, The Judge Group now sits in the “top tier of…
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IKEA Looks Finds Potential Second Denver Location
IKEA, the home furnishings retail giant with its North American headquarters in Conshohocken, is looking at Broomfield for a potential second store in the Denver area, according to a staff report from EPR Retail News. The new store would be IKEA’s 43rd outlet nationwide and although the plans are still provisional, the City is already…
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New Five Saints Distilling Brings Nostalgia and Commerce to Norristown
Part distillery and part museum, Five Saints Distilling hopes to rejuvenate Norristown commerce, enticing people with handmade spirits and local history, according to a Newsworks article earlier this week. “Recently retired pharmaceutical company executive John George felt like it was too late to get in on the craft beer boom, but is hoping to cash…
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Philadelphia NHL Franchise Celebrates 50 Years as “The Flyers” Thanks to a Narberth 9-Year-Old.
Fifty years ago this week, the Philadelphia Flyers announced their new name, according to an article on the NHL Hockey News website. “When the National Hockey League awarded a conditional expansion franchise on Feb. 9, 1966 to a Philadelphia-based group of bidders (Philadelphia Hockey Club) eventually led by Ed Snider, the new team did not…
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The Barnes Foundation to Host Conference Honoring Matisse’s Legacy
According to a announcement in The Art Newspaper, the Barnes Foundation will host a conference this Fall to celebrate the life and works of Henri Matisse. The event will take place from October 13-15 and will “bring scholars to Philadelphia to discuss the artist’s continuing legacy” through a series of panels and workshops. The three-day…
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Allied Barton’s Security-guard Merger Reflects Changing Threats
Conshohocken based Allied Barton Security Services merged with former rival, Universal Services of America, earlier this week to create the nation’s largest provider of security guards, Allied Universal. The merger brings together 140,000 employees and an annual revenue of $4.5 billion, according to an LA Times article by James F. Peltz. The company will keep…
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Montgomery County Careers – Lankenau Medical Center
The Lankenau Medical Center is a 331-bed tertiary care, teaching hospital and research institute in Wynewood. Its Emergency Department is certified by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center. Lankenau is a founding member of Main Line Health, a community-based not-for-profit health system. Manager, Medical Department This position provides ongoing expertise to assist the…
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After Merger, Headquarters of Former AlliedBarton to Remain in Conshohocken
AlliedUniversal, formed by the merger between AlliedBarton Security Services and Universal Services of America, is keeping its Conshohocken headquarters, writes Joseph DiStefano for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Before the merger, Universal absorbed the former Guardsmark and ABM Security to consolidate the split rent-a-guard business and associated cleaning and support services. Now the largest security services company…
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KOP’s Recovery Centers of America Volunteers at Facing Addiction’s Caucus at Democratic National Convention
The King of Prussia-based Recovery Centers of America has joined Facing Addiction as a key partner at the nonprofit’s Caucus for Addiction Solutions during this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The partnership speaks to Recovery Centers of America’s continued effort to advocate for the millions of individuals suffering from behavioral-health and substance-use disorders. More…
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