Business Matters
Leaders: County not meeting potential
The metaphor is easy to make in a football town: In economic development, as in Beaver Stadium, there are winners and losers.
By many measures, in recent history Centre County has been winning the economic development game. It sports a growing population...
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Health care fueling growth
After a recession-induced two-year hiatus into nearly 7 percent unemployment, Centre County’s jobless rate has returned to around 5 percent. But the economy may have shifted fundamentally in the interim.
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Jostens’ closing showed lack of outreach
The wake-up call came on April 26, when Jostens printing and publishing division announced it would close its 39-year-old plant in Ferguson Township and fold it into its operations in Clarksville, Tenn., shifting 230 jobs out of the area.
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Fizzled Sierra deal serves as eye-opener
Beer, it is generally believed, can act as a lubricant for conversation.
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Programs, grants help boost business
Oleg Shinkazh led his freshly assembled team of five biotechnology specialists into an office in Penn State’s Innovation Park business incubator, eager to tackle the first of the thousand problems that crop up for any new entrepreneur.
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More to courting firms than offering incentives
Proponents of offering incentives to companies to lure them to Pennsylvania often refer to economic development as a competition. But for companies playing states off one another for the best deal, that competition can be musical chairs, said Terrence Guay, a clinical associate professor at Penn...
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Finding new jobs difficult for veteran plant workers
Gerry Hanscom worked at Jostens for 28 years, but he still considered himself new compared with those who had worked there since the yearbook manufacturer opened at 401 Science Park Road 39 years ago.
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Schools, land price entice drilling firm
Milesburg is a small enough town that people notice when a new building goes up.
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Policy change to buoy research
Penn State has found itself in the news a lot in the past few months. But among business circles, the news that’s generated the most buzz is not what you might predict.
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Schools adjust to teach industry skills
For labor-starved companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale, one of the most important pipelines being built in Pennsylvania stretches between them and local workforce development agencies and schools.
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Transit, hospitals play important role
Ask a Centre County business executive what he needs to have in order to do business here, and you’ll hear the same answers over and over.
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