The Hershey Company has agreed to buy Lily’s, adding a better-for-you confection brand to its portfolio of chocolate and candy products.

Bell Insurance, an independent agency with offices in south-central Pennsylvania, has been acquired by Alera Group, a national insurance and wealth management firm.

Harrisburg area-based Keystone Agency Investors has formed an equity partnership with The Yurconic Agency, an independent insurance agency serving the Lehigh Valley.

York Electrical Institute and the Manufacturers’ Association in York County and Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture in Dauphin County were awarded part of $2.8 million in grant funding through the state’s Schools-to-Work Program, or STWP.

Camp Hill-based industrial services company Harsco Corp. now generates 82% of its revenue from environmentally focused segments, the company announced in its 2020 sustainability report.

On May 13, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) changed its COVID-19 masking guidelines, announcing fully vaccinated Americans could now unmask indoors.

Gov. Tom Wolf renewed the state’s 90-day Proclamation of Disaster Emergency on Thursday for the fifth time since the pandemic began last year.

JFS Wealth Advisors, a Mercer County-based wealth management firm with offices in Camp Hill and Lancaster, is set to acquire a competitor that will grow the company into the greater Philadelphia area and Georgia.

The Radisson Hotel Harrisburg in Camp Hill sold for $5.9 million to an undisclosed buyer on Wednesday after a two-day auction.

The Lancaster County real estate market is still moving homes at a fast and furious pace.

If you’re thinking about starting a business now that the pandemic is over, your business plan might want to spell out what would happen if there was another disaster. That was one piece of advice from panelists at a May 18 Central Penn Business Journal webinar that indicated how much the landscape for startups has changed.

Chambersburg-based F&M Trust recently filled two regional leadership roles.

FedEx plans to hire for 400 positions in Harrisburg through FedEx Ground and 200 in York through FedEx Supply Chain to keep up with customer demand.

Two Lebanon County business leaders have agreed to co-chair a fundraising project for the Canal Street Affordable Housing Project initiated by Community Homes of Lebanon County.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health announced it has earned the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute for six properties the organization directly manages, including two in central Pennsylvania.