Westchester County Business Journal back issues from August 2002:
Family business grows into color copies. (Competitive Edge).(Vista Business Products)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
Aug 05, 2002; ... George Forstbauer started mending shoes in a shoe store in Queens at age 14, spent six years in the Navy and completed two years of college before taking a series of jobs as a salesman for various companies. Forstbauer's life took a tragic turn when his wife of eight years was ...
Worrying about the economy: businesses apply lessons from a year of downturn.(local business trends and management techniques)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Enduring late-paying customers. Rethinking how to serve clients. Remembering lessons from the last down economy. Remembering, too, that parts of the economy have stayed strong. Welcome to the everyday world of Westchester businesses in the more-than-a-year since Washington ...
Creating family-friendly workplaces.(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Two local professionals-turned-mommy entrepreneurs who started a business based on flexible scheduling options for time-sensitive professionals and their employers, have captured their knowledge in a book that's hitting the shelves this week. First-time authors Nadine Mockler ...
Atlas Air, pilots reach labor accord.(Atlas Air Inc labor contract details)(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Atlas Air Inc. of Purchase and the Air Line Pilots Association International recently reached tentative agreement for a first labor contract Details of the contract were not released. On May 29, the National Mediation Board released Atlas Air and its crew members from mediated ...
New WFAS program is strictly business.(business radio show details)(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... The Business Journal is teaming up with a Tarrytown business coach and consultant to bring to local radio a new weekly program focusing on issues of interest and importance to entrepreneurs. "It's Strictly Business" airs every Wednesday at 7 p.m. on WFAS-AM (1230). The program ...
Tax incentives may spur business day care facilities. (Issues@Work).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... The "Father Knows Best" days of the husband going off to the office while the wife stays home with the children may have all but vanished. So who's taking care of the kids now that both mom and dad are working? Most working parents of preschoolers have to cope with a daily ...
Local Labor Statistics.(New York)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 05, 2002 ... <Pre> LOCAL LABOR STATISTICS Yonkers JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRILMAY JUNE LABOR FORCE 91,00091,200 91,800 91,800 92,400 94,100 EMPLOYED 85,50085,500 ...
How to avoid workplace harassment claims. (Issues@Work).(management techniques and theory)(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Although laws prohibiting harassment in the workplace have been around for many years, the concept did not really enter the consciousness of the business world until the 1990s when the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991 ushered in a new era of corporate sensitivity to harassment ...
Financial planning gets sticky.(investment techniques)(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Going. Going. Gone. So go the portfolios of many a stockholder in the weeks following an even larger bankruptcy announcement than Enron. As WorldCom's stock has plummeted to less than $5 a share and AOLTime Warner is being investigated, investors may be wondering how best to ...
Is NYSE move another bubble driven by hype?(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Is the New York Stock Exchange serious about moving half its trading activity to Westchester? Or is that just hype to force. New York City and the state into a quick economic incentive deal? A longtime critic of subsidies for the exchange says it's the latter, noting that ...
It all started under a tree. (New York Stock Exchange brokers' stock trading).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... By considering Westchester for part of its trading activity, the New York Stock Exchange is looking to end a two-century-old tradition of conducting all its trading in lower Manhattan. The exchange has housed stock trading since 1817, originally as the New York Stock & Exchange ...
With White Plains move, Sears awaits new Target. (Sears Roebuck and Co. to relocate store at Galleria mall, White Plains, NY).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 05, 2002; ... By planning to move its White Plains store to The Galleria mall, Sears Roebuck & Co. appears to be preparing for a showdown next year with a rival it has struggled to compete with nationwide. The Galleria sits two blocks west of City Center at White Plains, a retail-apartment ...
Drug maker wants HQ to grow with company.(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... A growing Hawthorne pharmaceutical company is planning to expand its offices and laboratories in phases over the next three years. Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. Inc. plans to start construction in November on a new $5.2 million lab of almost 20,000 square feet at 3 Skyline Drive ...
Limousine Companies. (The List).
Aug 05, 2002 ... <Pre> THE LIST LIMOUSINE COMPANIES Next List: August 19 CPAs Name, address, phone number Owner(s) and websiteE-mail address Area code: 203 (unlessYear company established otherwise noted) RANKED ALPHABETICALLY ...
State rebate helps Phelps Memorial save on energy.(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Phelps Memorial Hospital Center says it will save $330,000 a year in energy costs by installing new, more efficient equipment over the next several months -- paid for in part through a state rebate. The hospital has finished installing the first of several energy-efficient ...
Peekskill sets meeting on landfill study.(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Peekskill officials will meet this week with planning firms interested in conducting environmental reviews as part of the city's plan to transform its former landfill site near Annsville Creek into an industrial property. The Aug. 8 meeting is mandatory for planning firms that ...
Flexible staffing.(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Flexibility is essential for maintaining a competitive edge in today's business world. One way to ensure this in the management of personnel resources is through a practice called "strategic staffing." This proven approach looks at personnel needs based on the company's long-term ...
Power center: Del Global looks to voltage conversion systems for new growth. (TechCetera). (Del Global Technologies Corp.).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Well before Enron and WorldCom, a Valhalla maker of medical imaging systems, diagnostic systems and power conversion systems ran into its own smaller-scale accounting issues it has spent the past two years working to overcome. Del Global Technologies Corp. was forced to lay off ...
Web women of the 21st century. (TechCetera).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Some of the hottest jobs opportunities for women right now -- and in the future -- are in the high-tech sector, particularly in the area of website content design and development, according to John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., an outplacement ...
Does your website make a good first impression? (TechCetera).
Aug 05, 2002; ... Since the Internet has evolved into the ultimate research tool, people are increasingly turning to the web as their source for information about your company. They are your potential customers, and are coming to your site before they decide to do business with you. So what kind ...
Wireless companies go the distance to win customers. (TechCetera).
Aug 05, 2002; ... Competition for customers among cell phone carriers is fierce. With offers of huge rebates on phones to unlimited minutes on nights and weekends, wireless companies such as Verizon Communications Inc., Sprint PCS and AT&T Corp. are aggressively courting new customers. ...
Carol Gill student-college matchmaker. (Profits & Passions).
Aug 05, 2002; ... When Carol Gill was an associate director of admissions at Barnard College nearly two decades ago, she noticed the type of guidance the applicants were getting from their high school counselors. "I was getting one-line statements from, the guidance counselors. They were simply ...
New York Council on Problem Gambling. (Credits, Clients and Awards).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Frank Limone of White Plains, coordinator of the Problem Gamblers Recovery Program in Mamaroneck, a clinical program designed to achieve abstinence from problem gambling and ...
Westchester Exceptional Children's School. (Credits, Clients and Awards).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Westchester Exceptional Children's School, North Salem, a not-for-profit school that provides special education ...
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Hudson Valley Greater/New Jersey. (Credits, Clients and Awards).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Hudson Valley Greater/New Jersey, a part of a national nonprofit organization that awards grants to community-based organizations whose programs ...
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Westchester, Mount Kisco, received a $10,000 grant from Kraft Foods Inc. (Credits, Clients and Awards).
Aug 05, 2002 ... The Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Westchester, Mount Kisco, received a $10,000 grant from Kraft Foods Inc., Northfield. Ill., a food producer and ...
St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, acquired Community Hospital. (Credits, Clients and Awards).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, acquired Community Hospital, Dobbs Ferry, for ...
David F. DeRose of Irvington was appointed vice president of sales at InsightExpress. (Newsmakers).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... David F. DeRose of Irvington was appointed vice president of sales at InsightExpress, Stamford, Conn., an online market research firm. Since 1997, DeRose worked at Jupiter Communications, New York City, most recently as senior vice president, worldwide sales, ...
Dr. Stuart P. Feldman of Scarsdale was appointed director of research at White Plains Hospital Center. (Newsmakers).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Dr. Stuart P. Feldman of Scarsdale was appointed director of research at White Plains Hospital Center, White Plains. Feldman has been an attending physician in hematology/medical oncology at White Plains Hospital Center since 1992. He has a practice at ...
Anthony E. Varona of Tuckahoe joined Pace University Law School. (Newsmakers).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Anthony E. Varona of Tuckahoe joined Pace University Law School, White Plains, as a faculty member. Since 1997, Varona was general counsel and legal director at the Human Rights Campaign Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he was an associate in the Washington, D..C., office of the law firm ...
MSCO. (Newsmakers).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... MSCO, Purchase, a strategic marketing consulting firm, announced the following appointments. Andrea Ogunkoya of White Plains joined MSCO as an account director. Most recently, Ogunkoya was director of marketing at Technotel Data Services, New York City. Prior to that, she was a ...
Union State Bank. (Newsmakers).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Joseph Dedona Jr. of Pelham Manor, president of Dedona Contracting Corp., Bronx, was appointed to the chairman's ...
On the Agenda.(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Thursday, Aug. 8 County Chamber of Commerce's "Business After Hours" program, 5 to 7 p.m., Durtand Scout Center, Rye. $15 members; $30 non-members. For reservations, call 948-2110. Tuesday, Aug. 13 County Chamber of Commerce networking event, 7:30 to 9 ...
Coldwell Banker Residential Broker. (Real Estate Update).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Coldwell Banker Residential Broker anounced the following appointments in its Somers office. Linda Meyers of Carmel joined the office as a licensed real estate salesperson. Meyers has 13 years of experience in the real estate ...
Doris Laurenson of Edgemont joined the Ardsley office of Prudential Rand Realty Inc. (Real Estate Update).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Doris Laurenson of Edgemont joined the Ardsley office of Prudential Rand Realty Inc. as a sales associate. Previously, Laurenson worked in nursing administration. She ...
Carmel M. Archambault of Katonah joined the Katonah office of Houlihan/Lawrence Inc. (Real Estate Update).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Carmel M. Archambault of Katonah joined the Katonah office of Houlihan/Lawrence Inc. as a salesperson. Archambault has ...
Cash is king. (Off the Record).(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... When we take banks to task for not giving small businesses consideration, we also need to recognize that financial institutions have become increasingly wary of cash businesses. At one time or another, hasn't a gardener, roofer, plumber, electrician, home improvement professional imply ...
An exemplary move. (Looking Inside).(Drew Industries )(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... As the gyrations of the stock market continue to confuse investors, it is encouraging to review the activities of area public companies whose stocks have remained fairly stable. The lack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-mandated certification of earnings statements by ...
How companies can offset postal rate increase. (View Point).(management techniques and theory)(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Companies and consumers alike suffered a major setback in June when efforts to enact postal reform legislation failed in Congress. A bill was defeated largely because of procedural differences. The critical need to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service to preserve the future of the U.S. mail ...
Trump: the art of golf; Donald's new course in Briarcliff Manor brings out the stars. (Fly on the Wall).(Donald J. Trump)(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002 ... A galaxy of star athletes and other celebrities ignored gloomy early morning weather to turn out, irons in hand, for the July 24 opening of Donald J. Trump's new golf course in Briarcliff Manor. Trump National. Golf Club is a 7,200-yard, par 72 course, designed by Jim Fazio, the ...
Keeping up with change: human resource managers facing new challenges. (Focus: Human Resources).(local job performance data)(Brief Article)
Aug 05, 2002; ... Human resource departments in Westchester County businesses are reporting an increased focus on employee productivity, along with more focus on long-term demographic changes that will alter the mix and needs of future employees. "Given that the economy is in poor health and that ...
Study: workers lack investment education. (Focus: Human Resources).(survey results)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 05, 2002 ... Most employees are ill equipped to manage investment risk, according to the most recent TP Track survey from Towers Perrin. The survey findings further fuel growing concerns about retirement income security, since investment risk in 401(k) and similar plans rests wholly with ...
Polling Booth.(Polling Data)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 05, 2002 ... <Pre> PollingBooth www.GoWestchester.com GoWestchester.com, which partners with Westfair Communications to provide the Business Journal online, conducts a weekly poll on issues of importance to readers. The results of these polls do not reflect the views of the Journal and are ...
Beyond the call of duty: one company, not required, certifies earnings with SEC.(Drew Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Leigh Abrams has the mild manner and ease of an accountant. The president and chief executive officer of White Plains-based Drew Industries, a manufacturer of parts for recreational vehicles and manufactured housing, began his life in the accounting industry at Ernst & Young L.L.P. ...
Smoking curbs fuel concerns: county butts in against restaurant-bar smokers.(Westchester County, New York plans to ban smoking in restaurants)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Harry Zourdos worries that, history may repeat itself. Zourdos remembers the 50 customers who stopped eating at his Maguires restaurant in Mamaroneck when Westchester County restricted smoking to the bar areas in 1996. Zourdos, a Westchester County Board of Health ...
PepsiCo files earnings statement under new rules.(Securities and Exchange Commission requires signed affidavits certifying companies' third-quarter earnings)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... PepsiCo Inc., the Purchase-based food and beverage giant, has taken the lead as the first Westchester company to have its chief executive and chief financial officers sign off on its earnings statements as required by new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations. At ...
Stew, Joe top Solutions 2002 roster.
Aug 12, 2002; ... Stew Leonard, Jr. and Joe Connolly top the roster of speakers and exhibitors at Solutions 2002, the daylong annual business-to-business trade show set for Oct 30. Leonard, president and chief executive officer of Stew Leonard Inc. in Norwalk, Cona, will discuss managing the ...
Cognet collapses: $16.5 m cannot save Valhalla software firm from bankruptcy.(Cognet Corp.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Cognet Corp. was a fast-growing darling in Westchester's high-tech and business circles just two years ago, after completing three rounds of venture capital financing totaling $16.5 million during the technology boom. As boom turned, to bust over the past year, Cognet's revenues ...
Summer workers facing pink slips. (Issues@Work).(employment data for Westchester County, White Plains, New York)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Midsummer for most companies means scheduling vacations, handling seasonal slumps in business, and paying higher electric bills because of air conditioning. But for many human resource directors and the employees, it's also a time to plan for seasonal layoffs. Many businesses in ...
How mangers can increase employee job satisfaction. (Issues@Work).(Brief Article)(Column)
Aug 12, 2002; ... The most important factor affecting employee satisfaction with their job is their immediate supervisor. That's right. The boss is the most important factor determining whether an employee likes his job. Perhaps not surprising, about 65 percent of employees dislike their bosses ....
St. John's and Community Hospital merge.(St. John's Riverside Hospital, Community Hospital)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Community Hospital in Dobbs Ferry will continue to operate as a full-service hospital with help from St. John's Riverside Hospital, which purchased its smaller counterpart in a government auction July 17. Founded in 1893 as a four-bed and onehorse facility, Community Hospital ...
ShopRite's new owner: we can-can compete.(ShopRite Supermarkets Inc.)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... ShopRite's new owner says it's less interested in expanding in Westchester than it is in improving its six existing units in hopes of competing better with rival supermarket chains and smaller grocery stores. Those improvements, said new owner ShopRite Supermarkets Inc. (SRS), ...
Limo business in prime time despite dull economy.(Prime Time Limousine Inc. has positive business in summer 2002)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002 ... Whispers that businesses linked to corporate travel are in dire straits due to the recession and travel fears are grossly over exaggerated, according to one local limousine operator. Prime Time Limousine Inc. of Stamford, Conn., says business this summer is ahead of last ...
Psychotherapist designs sunglasses for therapy.(Robert Buck)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Local psychotherapist Robert Buck has invented NeuView sunglasses that help his patients deal with traumatic memories, phobias or just everyday life. The patented sunglasses enable the patient to access unfiltered light to either the right or left lateral visual field, ...
Urban magazine squares off against AOL Time Warner.(court battle with Gutter Publications)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... A raw, uncensored, opinion-laced publication geared to the urban "hip hop" culture is embroiled in a trademark infringement battle with one of the biggest media companies in the world--AOL Time Warner Inc. Niggertainment Monthly, published by Gutter Publications out of Yonkers, ...
Keeping up with technology: Westchester Business Institute expands to meet demand. (Focus-Education).(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Westchester businesses and corporations with computer-dependent employees are finding their way to the Westchester Business Institute (WBI) in White Plains, which offers associate degrees and certificate programs in more than a half-dozen computer-related areas. And, while some ...
Business ethics start at the top. (Focus-Education).(Clare Pennino)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Corporate America is going to have to work hard to regain the trust of the American consumer and investor as a result of the collapse of ethical standards and conduct in chief executive and chief financial offices. "To regain public confidence, I think they have to go back to ...
Shopping center developer 'King of the Rock'. (Profits & Passions).(Bernard Rosenshein)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002; ... Bernard Rosenshein is president of Rosenshein Associates in Mamaroneck, a successful real estate development company that specializes in shopping center construction and management. The company has been dubbed the "King of the Rock" for its expertise in carving shopping centers ...
Yacht club's historic past.(Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002 ... The estate at the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club was born through a commissioning in 1883 by Wall Street financier Charles J. Osborne. Osborne gained his success representing a number of the day's financial heavy-hitters, including W.H Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller. ...
Passion for sailing saves Yacht Club.(Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002 ... It was Bernard Rosenshein's passion for sailing and appreciation of historic beauty that saved the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club from possible financial ruin. "Water is my passion, no question about that," he said. He developed his fervor for sailing as a young man ...
Westchester Medical Center. (News from our Members).(receives grant from US Department of Health and Human Services)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002 ... Westchester Medical Center, on behalf of the Children's Trauma Consortium of Westchester, has received a three-year $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health ...
Berkeley College. (News from our Members).
Aug 12, 2002 ... Berkeley College has available parking permits for the White Plains Municipal Parking Lot on Hamilton Avenue ....
Optimized Computer Solutions. (News from our Members).(uses i-Sight Consulting to help with marketing)(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002 ... Recognizing the need to adapt to a changing competitive landscape, Manhattan based I.T. firm, Optimized ...
The American Cancer Society in Westchester. (News from our Members).
Aug 12, 2002 ... The American Cancer Society in Westchester is hosting their 2002 Golf Classic on August 19th at the Centennial Golf Club in Carmel, NY. In honor of Debbie Schreibman of Scarsdale. For ...
VG Airlines. (News from our Members).(Brief Article)
Aug 12, 2002 ... IMAX Theatre at Palisades Center in West Nyack and VG Airlines based at Kennedy Airport have both appointed GMG Public Relations as agency of record according to president Risa B. Hoag who founded the agency in 1991 ....