In September two major Pennsylvanian employers, Harsco Corp. and Rite Aid, announced they would be leaving their headquarters in Cumberland County to open new main offices in Philadelphia. 

RETTEW’s CEO and Chairman of the Board plans to step down from his role effective February 4, but will remain with the company in a part-time capacity. 

Harrisburg-based electronics wholesaler D&H Distributing is the fourth largest private company in Pennsylvania and the 84th largest in the country, according to the most recent Forbes List of America’s Largest Private Companies. 

For 50 years an electrical products distributor has called 256 West Walnut St. in Allentown home. 

The Mechanicsburg-based technology-enabled home improvement company, which specializes in window, door and bath remodeling and replacement, is now operating in Colorado. 

Lancaster real estate developer Eberly Myers’ incoming four-story, 33-unit apartment building in downtown Columbia marks the first residential housing project of its kind in the borough in years. 

Karns Quality Foods in Mechanicsburg has acquired a Duncannon-based independent community grocery store, giving Karns its second store in Perry County. 

Merit Marketing, a Harrisburg-based marketing and strategy consulting firm, has launched a new regional branch with the hiring of three employees based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

FedEx Ground opened a 981,000-square-foot automated station in Penn Township, Cumberland County, with 190 employees and plans to hire an additional 125 for the holiday season. 

Specialty chemical manufacturer Stoner Solutions was performing market testing on its popular glass cleaning “Invisible Glass” products in a bid to make the item more viable in the competitive household cleaning market. 

The owner and founder of a Harrisburg-based flooring company has sold his 19-year ownership stake in the company to focus on another flooring venture. 

In the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Harrisburg-based D&H Distributing fielded requests from everyone from the mayor of Boston, looking for 20,000 Chromebooks for public schools, to the head of Microsoft, in need of thousands of headsets and cameras to support telemedicine services.

A Snyder County-based civil engineering firm expanded into the Harrisburg market this month with the hiring of a new regional director with twenty years of experience working in the midstate.

Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana industry has brought in more than $1.7 billion since the state’s  program began in early 2018. Since August, sales increased, 40%.

For many midstate businesses in the sports industry, 2019 was a standout year and leaders were looking to capitalize on that success as they prepared for the 2020 season.