As filed – without editing – last week for yesterday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. SCA Americas has gone green with its educational advocacy. The Swedish consumer goods and paper company with U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia celebrated Earth Day last week by donating a book with a message to elementary schools in Philadelphia. “For [...]

As filed – without edits – last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. IN 1999, JANET DeARMOND FOUNDED Customer Service Review Inc., a consulting firm specializing in customer service training in Wayne. Somewhere after spending 14 years as the company’s president, she left. She’s back. “There was an opportunity. I know the [...]

As filed – without edits – for last Friday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. IT IS DISTURBING JUST HOW often you think you have heard the story. How an 18-year-old finds a drive after the prom to be her last. Last year Lacey Gallagher was a senior at Little Flower Catholic High School for [...]

I GOT A BIG THRILL on Friday. I shared a byline with staff writer Peter Van Allen on the cover of the Philadelphia Business Journal. I didn’t realize it at first, but, indeed, it is the first time I have ever made it to Page One of any professional publication. Pretty cool. I’ll see if [...]

As filed – without edits – for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Chet Zoltak has taken on another time committment after the workday and still can’t believe he’s at his Philadelpia home so much. Zoltak, minted as president of the Philadelphia Human Resources Planning Society in November, spent 2005 commuting to a job [...]

As filed – without editing – last week for yesterday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Dan Soskin, the owner of Pinot, a wine and accessories store in Old City, wants you to give a home to needy animals. “I have four pets of my own,” he said. “With the exception of the iguana, they [...]

As filed – without edits – last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Denise Williams has a brutal walk to her boss’s office. She is a one woman-office charged with launching East Coast operations for Goodman Marketing Partners, a direct marketing company in San Rafael, Calif., 20 miles north of San Francisco. [...]

An interview transcribed last week for yesterday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Name: Joseph P. Campbell Title: President and CEO Company: Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania Inc. Education: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute, associoate’s degree, 1966; University of Florida BA and BS in corporate finance, law and secondary education, 1970 Career History: Royal Bancshares general manager of [...]

As filed last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. If only Stephanie Reyer could find a good dry cleaner. The new director of exhibits at the National Constitution Center left a lifetime in New York and a career at the American Museum of Natural History in the city. “I’m the new kid [...]

As filed last week for tomorrow’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Bowlers just might be the real test of the economy. Organizers of the 14th annual charity bowling tournament sponsored Remington & Vernick Engineers and Affiliates, a consulting agency in Haddonfield, N.J., were worried if they could top their total last year, roughly $69,000, [...]