Westchester County Business Journal 3 Westchester County Local Jobs
Vol. 46, # 14 | April 2, 2007
 
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Proftech

Jose R. Montiel is no stranger to creativity.

When it came to founding his company, Proftech L.L.C., Montiel chose to take a creative approach.

As a student at Clarkson University and an aspiring entrepreneur, Montiel wrote a term paper on recession-proof businesses. Using his paper and his interest in visiting supply stores, Montiel realized the office-supply industry was one with longevity.

 

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Empire City at Yonkers Raceway last week formally unveiled the third and final phase of the gaming facility.

 

 

 

The U.S. Justice Department is hoping last week’s guilty plea by ITT Corp. to illegally exporting secret military data regarding its night-vision goggles will serve as a warning to other defense contractors that outsource work.

 

 

 

Several students from one of the Netherlands’ first nurse practitioner (NP) programs toured White Plains Hospital Center last week to get a glimpse of how those in the profession function in the U.S. health-care system.

 

 

 

Planet Organic Health Corp. is buying Mrs. Green’s Natural Market Inc., a Scarsdale chain.

 

 

 

Just months after the exit of its patriarch, Paxar Corp. agreed to a $1.3 billion takeover by Avery Dennison Corp., one of its biggest rivals.

 

 

 

Les Neumann believes the area between Manhattan and Albany, better known as the Hudson River Valley, can and should be the most prime real estate in the entire world.

 

 

 

Looking to cultivate the “next movers and shakers” of the business community, the Westchester County Association (WCA) has created a committee geared toward the county’s young professionals.

 

 

 

Thanks to a recent $1 million gift from the estate of the late Alex Gordon, the Purchase College Foundation/Neuberger Museum of Art Endowment will be adding a new full-time curatorial position to its staff, said Thom Collins, museum director.

 

 

 

In his State of the County address in late March, Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano said one of his grandfather’s favorite expressions was, ‘Watch the hands; don’t listen to the mouth.’”

 

 

 

Calling the state’s current economic climate a “perfect storm of unaffordability,” Empire State Development Corp.’s new co-chairmen Patrick Foye and Dan Gunderson outlined several ideas to create a friendlier business environment here.

 

 

 

Saion Sinha has developed a method to perform forensics on gunpowder residue on shots fired at close range, which criminal labs in the past have had difficulty tracing.

 

 
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