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Exports from the Ocean State rose 9.1 percent in November to $195.9 million on a month-to-month, seasonally adjusted basis after rising 1.4 percent in October, according to an international trade statistics report from e-forecasting.com.
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Small businesses in Rhode Island represent 95.9 percent of all employers and employ 55.4 percent of the state’s private sector workforce, according to a report from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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(Updated, Feb. 28, 11:45 a.m.)
Three more members of the R.I. Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors have announced their intention to step down, bringing to eight the number who have left or asked off the board since last spring.
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The Eat Drink RI Festival is set to become the state’s first three-day local food festival when it heads to downtown Providence from April 19-21, Dave Dadekian, founder of Eat Drink RI, a regional culinary website, announced Friday.
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Gas prices in the Ocean State dropped 3 cents this week after five consecutive weeks of increases, AAA Southern New England reported Monday.
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Shannon Brawley, Nancy Carriuolo, Roland Fiore, Jason Kelly and George Nee are the latest to be nominated by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee for the R.I. Economic Development Corporation board of directors, Chafee announced Thursday afternoon.
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Astro-Med Inc., maker of specialty printers and data-acquisition systems, posted net income of $10.6 million, or $1.42 per diluted share, for the fiscal 2013 period, a gain of 239 percent on its fiscal 2012 results.
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At a press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Angel Taveras outlined a 20-step economic development action plan to “put Providence residents back to work and jump-start the economy of Rhode Island’s capital city.”
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(Updated, 3 p.m.) The International Council of Shopping Centers, or ICSC, is accepting registrations for an April 3 informal public-private sector networking event from 7:30 a.m. to noon at Agawam Hunt Club in Rumford, designed to foster economic regeneration.
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Roger Williams University leaders have narrowed their search for a new downtown Providence branch to five locations and hope to recommend one to trustees next month, school officials said Thursday.
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