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Profits for Astro-Med Inc. surged 63.5 percent to $1.3 million, or 18 cents per diluted share, during the third quarter of 2012, compared with $800,000, or 11 cents per diluted share, during the third quarter of 2011.
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Paul Skoczylas grew up around kielbasa. By age 8, he was lending a hand at Central Falls Provision, his family’s Polish sausage shop, and through high school and college he was working there full time during the summers. Photos from the period show him in front of the oven, holding a rack of sausages, wearing a T-shirt with “kielbasa kid” stenciled across the chest.
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Orders placed with U.S. factories rose in May for the first time in three months, easing concern that manufacturing is faltering.
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Manufacturing in the New York region contracted more than forecast in September as orders shrank, a sign the world’s largest economy will get less support from the industry.
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Nortek Inc., HVAC and ventilation maker, has joined the Russell 3000 and Russell 2000 indices, the company announced Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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Even a dead business can have value. In fact, sometimes the age and obsolescence of an enterprise, the fact that it didn’t evolve into the next big thing, makes it worth something.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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The U.S. trade deficit widened in July for the first time in four months as the global economic slowdown reduced demand for American-made goods.
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Providence-based GreenBytes Inc. has named Chris Maher as chief operating officer to lead “ongoing market expansion,” the computer hardware and software pioneer announced Thursday.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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After claims that its Warren shipbuilding and ship repair facility had violated the federal Clean Air Act National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Facilities, Blount Boats Inc. has agreed to pay a $24,000 penalty and spend at least $230,000 on a clean air project.
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By Lindsay Lorenz |