Commerce
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PTMA of Montgomery County Presents Annual Transportation Awards
It’s difficult to get stranded in the North Penn region thanks to the efforts of several transportation organizations and groups. Some of them were recently recognized when The Partnership Transportation Management Association of Montgomery County presented its annual awards, writes Dan Sokil for the Times Herald. One of the recipients of the award was SEPTA, and its…
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Hatboro’s PerformTex Teams Up with Therapists to Produce Popular Athletic Kinesiology Tape
Hatboro’s PerformTex, a manufacturer and online retailer of therapeutic and athletic support products, has teamed up with sports medicine practitioners and therapists to incorporate athletic kinesiology tape into their regimens. The taping method is not new. However, it has improved greatly since its inception in the 1970s. PerformTex’s kinesiology tape is sold in stores nationwide,…
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Urban Outfitters to Supersize Anthropologie Store in King of Prussia Mall
Urban Outfitters Inc. is making another attempt to boost its lower performing brands by rolling out larger Anthropologie stores as they seem to be resonating with customers who want more variety, writes Suzette Parmley for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Encouraged by first-quarter numbers for fiscal 2017, which show a three percent increase in net sales as well…
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Thanks to Merck, Dodsworth Run Preserve Open to Public
Residents of Upper Gwynedd and the surrounding areas have the chance to enjoy a beautiful new nature preserve after Merck recently dedicated the Dodsworth Run Preserve on Dickerson Road to the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association, writes Dan Sokil for the Times Herald. “Merck is pleased, not only to create a wonderful setting for the community, but to…
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Spring-Ford Teacher Rakes in More Than $60,000 on Wheel of Fortune
Royersford resident and Spring-Ford teacher Melanie Bowen won more than $60,000 in cash and prizes on Wheel of Fortune. Melanie Bowen, a Royersford resident and history teacher at Spring-Ford High School, won $63,644 in cash and prizes on the Wheel of Fortune, writes Eric Devlin of the Pottstown Mercury. Bowen’s episode – during which she…
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Norristown’s BartonPartners Rallies Support for Habitat for Humanity
Renowned Norristown design firm BartonPartners has once again taken up the mantle of encouraging local businesses to support Habitat for Humanity Montgomery County, writes Gary Puleo for the Times Herald. Due to the low-income housing crisis, more than 6,000 Montgomery County residents are currently living in sub-standard housing. This is why the organization has been fundraising…
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Plymouth Meeting’s Inovio Pharmaceuticals Has Breakthrough with Zika Virus Vaccine
Plymouth Meeting’s Inovio Pharmaceuticals has announced that testing of its synthetic vaccine for the Zika virus induced robust antibody and T-cell responses in monkeys, demonstrating the product’s potential to prevent infection from this harmful pathogen. As a result, Inovio will conduct human studies later this year. The company synthetically generated DNA vaccine constructs targeting multiple…
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Golf’s Constellation Senior Players Championship Tees Off at Flourtown’s Philadelphia Cricket Club
As part of this year’s Constellation Senior Players Championship in golf, nine nonprofit organizations from Greater Philadelphia will receive grants totaling $500,000, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The golf tournament will take place at the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course in Flourtown from June 9-12. The main sponsor of the event is Exelon…
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Fox Trot 5K to Kick off Day of Family Fun Tomorrow in Pottstown
The incredibly-popular Fox Trot 5K sponsored by Sly Fox Brewery returns for its third year tomorrow in Pottstown with the largest road-running race in the area. The race, which sold out out early this year with more than 1,000 runners, kicks off a day of family fun with live music and food trucks at the…
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Montgomery County Briefly: Friends’ Central Aquatics, Jenkintown School District, St. Philip-in-the-Fields, and Lower Merion Graduate Amy Gross
Here’s a quick rundown of business news in Montgomery County: Friends’ Central Aquatics Raises $10K for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Every other year, Friends’ Central Aquatics in Wynnewood hosts a Swim-A-Thon to raise money and awareness for a designated charitable cause. At this year’s event, more than 100 FCA swimmers of all ages participated in the…
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Pottstown’s Hill School Offered Haven for Trump’s Sons in the ’90s
A recent Washington Post feature highlighted the role that Pottstown’s prestigious Hill School played in the development of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s sons in the aftermath of his divorce from their mother. According to writer Dan Zak, the Hill School provided a safe haven for Don Jr. and Eric Trump in the 1990s, as…
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Pottstown Deals Tax Breaks for Business Improvements
Pottstown is making a deal with businesses to boost investment in local revitalization. Under the terms of the proposal, qualifying companies would get to bypass paying taxes on the improved value of their facilities in exchange for the economic development and its ripple effect throughout the neighborhood. As long as the Pottstown School District and…
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Conshohocken Restaurant Rally Lures Diners for a Good Cause
The 10th Annual Conshohocken AMBUCS Restaurant Rally recently united diners, enabling them to enjoy a gamut of food that ran from Italian pork sandwiches to seafood soup and macaroni and cheese. And the 60-dollar registration fee helped support the Conshohocken arm of AMBUCS, a national charitable service organization, whose goal is to create mobility and…
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Traffic Flow and Safety to Improve in Montco Thanks to State’s Largesse
Gov. Tom Wolf has announced that several municipalities in Montgomery County will receive some of the $12 million the state has allotted to underwrite the costs of upgrading traffic signals, writes Justin Heinze of the Hatboro-Horsham Patch. The funds are courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s “Green Light-Go” program. According to Heinze, Hatboro will…
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Bryn Mawr’s Noble.MD Gets Million-Dollar Prescription to Launch New Products
Area investors are prescribing $1.45 million to help Noble.MD, a health care technology firm in Bryn Mawr, achieve new levels of success. Equity financing from Radnor-based investors Safeguard Scientifics and BioAdvance, along with numerous individual angel investors, will enable Noble.MD to launch two new products and expand its sales and marketing push. “We have been helping…
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Montgomery County’s Republicans Presidential Conflict Dissected by Wall Street Journal
Two Wall Street Journal writers recently traveled to Blue Bell and Reading to highlight the split feelings on Donald Trump among Republicans in neighboring counties. Whereas Trump’s swagger and promises to get tough with trading partners have rallied Republicans in Reading, many Republicans in Montgomery County worry that those same qualities are repelling upper-income GOP…
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Legacy of Service Earns KCA Law Firm Small Business of the Year
A deep-rooted community legacy and rich tradition of service have put Collegeville’s Keenan, Ciccitto & Associates (KCA) in the limelight of the Perkiomen Valley Chamber of Commerce Star Awards as the Small Business of the Year. From dedicated sponsorship of local events to generous service in the Knights of Columbus and Rotary Club to wholehearted…
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Montgomery County Briefly: Minuteman Press, Superior Tube, Chartwell Law, and Society of Professional Women
Here’s a quick rundown of business news in Montgomery County: Minuteman Press Franchises Open in Bala Cynwyd and Glenside Minuteman Press International has announced five grand openings in the Philadelphia region, including franchises in Bala Cynwyd and Glenside. Bala Cynwyd owner Jude Arijaje came to the United States from Nigeria in 2000, and his first…
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