Money
Urban Outfitters shareholders again pass up push for diversity
Urban Outfitters shareholders recently voted against asking the company’s board to consider diversity when it chooses new members.< ...
14 years ago
Endo lobbies Congress for additional tests to prove generics’ quality
It’s a difficult time for brand-name drugmakers. Research and development costs have increased. And patents are expiring on some of ...
14 years ago
Developer proposes 700 rental apartments near Philly airport
The president of developer Korman Residential of Trevose says he knows it’s not a good time to be building housing. “B ...
14 years ago
Sale of 450-acre Merrill Lynch campus could be N.J.’s largest office real estate deal
It could be the largest office real estate deal in New Jersey history as the huge campus built for Merrill Lynch in Hopewell Township goe ...
14 years ago
Not learning a trade, but still gaining skills for the workplace
It’s a truism that the job search is all about details: the correctly punctuated email, and the firm handshake. However, for ...
14 years ago
New Jersey Assembly to consider increasing tax-break oversight
Consider the tax incentive: The government doesn’t hand over a dime, but the tax breaks for businesses come out of the state’ ...
14 years ago
Southeast Pennsylvania mail center to close
The U.S. Postal Service plans to close a mail center in Southeast Pennsylvania as part of its consolidation of 140 mail-processing facili ...
14 years ago
Foreclosures rise in Pa. after robo-signing settlement
Greater Philadelphia-area foreclosures have soared in the first quarter. The number of homes caught up in the process in the region were ...
14 years ago
Solutions for-Philly’s abandoned building blight
Forty thousand. That’s how many vacant properties there are in the city of Philadelphia — and quite a few of the ...
14 years ago
Same school budget crisis, different year
Last week, Council grilled school officials about their plans to balance the budget and wholly restructure the district.But reporters Dor ...
14 years ago
National survey: Pa. gaming revenue up, N.J. down
An annual study of the national gambling market shows Pennsylvania casinos grew 21 percent last year while New Jersey gaming halls contin ...
14 years ago
Exempt nonprofits might chip in for property taxes
Will the city soon reap millions in voluntary payments from nonprofits? Currently, many nonprofits are exempt from paying property ...
14 years ago
Delta takes plunge into refinery business
Delta Airlines has decided to do something about high gas prices. The company is buying a refinery from Conoco Philips fo ...
14 years ago
In airline first, Delta to buy Trainer Pa. oil refinery
Delta Airlines will become the new owner of Conoco-Phillips’ money-losing oil refinery in Delaware County to produce its own jet fu ...
14 years ago
City may allow online parking ticket appeals
Last week a City Council committee considered legislation that would require the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication, which handles par ...
14 years ago