Commerce
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HeadRoom’s Dan Lievens: Omne Delivers Elegant Solutions to Businesses
Armed with a growing arsenal of skills and experience, the Media custom app developer Omne Solutions is honing in on turning difficult challenges into missions accomplished, and its precision is impressive. Just ask the strategic minds behind HeadRoom, the coworking, collaboration and consulting firm in Media and Wayne. “They are amazing. Omne is leveraging some…
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Remodeling Key Stores in Region and Expanding Empire to Florida, Wawa Keeps Proving It’s King
Wawa, the Delco-based chain of convenience stores that has become a staple in the lives of so many in Greater Philadelphia, continues to expand its empire, both at home and beyond. More than 200 legacy stores are being remodeled at $1-1.5 million per store, while the state of Florida will be blessed with the opening…
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Springfield Physical Therapist Realizes Lifelong Dream, Opens Her Own Business
Lifelong connections and an extensive career in orthopedic and sports rehab recently converged for a Delaware County woman who fulfilled a dream in opening Today, Drexel Hill’s Traci Haas is living that dream — and a deep-seated commitment to help her patients find “comprehensive pain relief for a better life,” Peg DeGrassa reported in a…
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CIA Book, Pope Rookie Card Highlight DCCC Your Connection Quarterly Newsletter
Your Connection is a quarterly newsletter for alumni and friends of Delaware County Community College. As you will read in the Spring edition below, the college became the first community college in the country to have purchased the LapSim 2015, a cutting-edge, virtual laparoscopic training simulator. It will help students in the Perioperative Nursing, Registered…
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Radnor’s Mitochon Pharmaceuticals Receives $1.6M from Private Stock Sale
Radnor-based Mitochon Pharmaceuticals recently completed a private stock sale, generating $1.6 million for the biotech company. Among the investors involved in the equity financing is Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, writes John George of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The start-up company will use the funds to advance the development and testing of its lead…
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PECO Connecting Concord Township to Self-sustaining ‘Microgrid’
PECO is planning to solve the issue of frequent power outages in Concord Township by installing a self-sustaining ‘microgrid’, writes Andrew Maykuth for Philly.com. PECO Energy Co. has already asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for authorization to invest close to $35 million in an experimental microgrid, along the Route 1 corridor in Concordville. The microgrid…
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Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens Discusses Minimum Wage, Rivalry with Sheetz
Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens offered some interesting insight about his company when he recently spoke with the Philadelphia Inquirer about Wawa’s rapid growth, which expands at a rate of one store per week, his thoughts on the minimum wage, and his rivalry with Sheetz. The issue of raising the minimum wage has been gaining momentum throughout…
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Swiss Farms’ New Promo a ‘Shore’ Thing
Swiss Farms, the Broomall-based drive-thru market, has unveiled Store to Shore, a promotion to kick off summer that offers customers a quick and convenient way to stock up on both fun fare and healthier snack options before heading to the beach. From May 23-June 5, customers can purchase a Swiss Farms cooler filled with a…
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Delaware County Briefly: Airgas, Radnor High School, and Storeroom Solutions
Here’s a quick rundown of other business news in Delaware County: Sale of Radnor’s Airgas for $13.4 Billion Wins Regulatory Approval Air Liquide, a Paris-based industrial gas manufacturer with its U.S. headquarters in Houston, was approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to buy Radnor’s Airgas Inc. This was the final regulatory approval needed, and…
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Frank Pileggi, Lawyer and Father of Delco Judge, Passes Away at 87
Frank Pileggi, 87, the founder of the Woodlyn law firm of Pileggi & Pileggi and the father of Delaware County Common Pleas Court Judge Dominic Pileggi, died last Tuesday, writes Bonnie Cook of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Pileggi, of Chester, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Pileggi graduated from…
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Spurred by Memories of His Grandfather, Media’s George Pagano Rows the Atlantic to Raise Money for ALS
Eating freeze-dried food and sleeping between nonstop three-hour shifts for 58 days, a Media man rowed the entire width of the Atlantic Ocean. Spurred on by a grandfather who died too young from Lou Gehrig’s disease, George Pagano and rowing partner Caitlin Miller successfully completed the 2,747-nautical-mile Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge between the Canary Islands…
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Axalta Invests in Future by Engaging Students at Youth Leadership Academy
Seniors from high schools across Delaware County engaged with Axalta Coating Systems of Glen Mills and other local businesses at the eighth annual Youth Leadership Academy last week at Penn State Brandywine. The program, sponsored by the Youth Council of the Delaware County Workforce Development Board and the Foundation of the Delaware County Chamber of…
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Delaware County Community College Alumna and Pharmacologist with U.S. DEA Tells Graduates ‘Road to Success is Paved with Hard Work’
Dr. Luli Akinfiresoye, a pharmacologist who works with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s Office of Diversion, shared her inspirational story with graduates of the Delaware County Community College Thursday morning at the school’s commencement in The Pavilion at Villanova University. “Though there were obstacles and challenges along my journey, I did not become distracted because…
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Malvern Federal Savings Bank Christens New Villanova Office
A toast to the exciting new private banking service in Villanova recently filled the halls of Ardrossan Farms in Devon, where officers, employees and clients of Malvern Federal Savings Bank christened the endeavor with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Officially named the Villanova Private Banking Office, Malvern Federal’s new outreach at the corner of Routes 30…
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Pasta Pillar Scaramuzza Pasta Closing Clifton Heights Retail Store
Pasta lovers in Clifton Heights will lose one of their local favorites when Scaramuzza Pasta closes its retail store on North Springfield Road on May 26, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. Scaramuzza’s, founded by Clementine DeLioggo and her daughter Mary Scaramuzza, has been a staple of the area for over half of century. Locals…
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Travers Food Market Celebrates Three Decades of Success
Despite chain convenience stores forcing many traditional corner stores to close, Travers Food Market in Lansdowne has withstood the test of time and is still going strong after three decades, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. The community-centered store opened on May 22, 1986 and brothers Dave and Fred Travers will celebrate their 30…
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Grocery-Shopping Millennials Have Spoken, and Acme Has Listened
Store representatives from the Acme in Broomall’s Lawrence Park Shopping Center have heard what customers want and made changes according to their desires, writes Anne Neborak for the Daily Times. The store recently celebrated its grand re-opening, and presented more than $2,750 to local organizations in the community it serves. “We are giving the customers…
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Basketball Hall of Famer and Nike Director Shares Wisdom with Villanova Graduates
George Raveling – director of International Basketball for Nike, Basketball Hall of Famer, and former college basketball coach – inspired Villanova graduates with his words of wisdom at the school’s commencement ceremony, writes Anne Neborak of the Main Line Suburban Life. Raveling, who received his honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, was introduced by Villanova’s basketball…
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