Pennsylvania regulators on Thursday approved Aqua America Inc.'s $4.3 billion acquisition of one of the state's largest gas utilities, completing the Bryn Mawr firm's transformation from a water utility into an "infrastructure company" that will be rebranded Essential Utilities Inc.

Lancaster Health Center named James Reichenbach chief mission advancement and community programs officer. Most recently, he was a consultant for strategic planning, client relations, fundraising and communications support. He has a bachelor’s degree from Penn State and a master’s degree from Walden University.

Lower Allen Township-based LeTort Trust named Patricia A. Lauchle personal trust and tax officer. She will maintain tax records and information for clients’ investment and trust accounts. She was tax manager with Boyer & Ritter LLC. She has a bachelor’s degree from Penn State.

Spring Garden Township-based Doceo named Derek Greenholt and David B. Cook technology consultants. Greenholt will work in the Hanover office. He will provide technology options to businesses and nonprofits in Hanover, Spring Grove and Littlestown. Most recently, he was an account executive for Ameritel Corp. He has a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University. Cook will focus on York County ...

Tom Garrity, the managing partner of Compass Point Consulting, explains there are four decisions every company needs to get right in order to scale up: people, strategy, execution, and cash.

We sat down with Beth McKinley, financial associate with Thrivent Financial, and discussed her career goals, skills needed to be a donor adviser, and how she keeps her clients feeling more confident about their financial futures

Many of our Central PA businesses can point to their diverse hiring initiatives or how they provide regular diversity training to their employees, however, I think about a compelling question that a good friend of mine, Romeo Azondekon, vice president of Student Services at Central Penn College, once asked me: “Who are in your small rooms?”

Microsoft is pledging to become 100% “carbon-negative” by 2030 by removing more carbon from the environment than it emits.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a revamp of the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement that includes tougher rules on labor and automotive content but leaves $1.2 trillion in annual U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade flows largely unchanged.

Google parent-company Alphabet has hit $1 trillion in market capitalization, making it the fourth U.S. company to hit the milestone.

The assistance is through a partnership with MANNA, the Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance.

The proud owner of two local businesses, one a virtual reality arcade and the other a marketing company, Eric Kazdasays he has always dreamed big, but he found that success takes more than that. It takes hard work, dedication, perseverance, vision, sacri ce and countless other traits that he says mixed together create a person who doesn’t quit. It also takes swallowing your ...

As the owner of QuantumDynamix, Craig Kazda provides digital marketing and website strategies that help businesses understand what their unique stories are online and how they can best communicate to their customers. Kazda credits his professional achievements in large part to his involvement in the marching band in high school, which he says allowed him to discover his personality and find his voice. Looking for ...

According to Jim Kampstra, having a grandfather who was a high school economics teacher is what sparked his entrepreneurial spirit and passion for the nancial industry by teaching him the fundamentals to operating a business.By the time he was 26 years old, he had purchased the financial advisory firm where he got his start. After leading the firm’s aggressive growth and positioning it ...