MacKenna Leib has been named assistant controller at Boyer & Ritter, a new position for the Camp Hill-based accounting and advisory firm.Leib joined Boyer &
Partners Scott Christ, Brian Groff and Krista Showers retired effective Nov. 30 from Trout CPA, a Lancaster-based accounting and advisory firm. Groff joined Trout in 1993 after graduating from James Madison University in Virginia. He chaired the firm’s team development committee and its nonprofit practice group.Christ joined Trout in 2020 after the firm merged with […]
Is a company still liable for a subsidiary’s legal problems even after the subsidiary is legally dissolved?That’s an issue being taken up by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the context of asbestos class-action lawsuits filed against Dravo, a former shipbuilder and manufacturer based in Pittsburgh.The question is whether Dravo’s asbestos liabilities should pass to Carmeuse Lime Inc. The Belgian […]
Robert Opferman has been named senior vice president and director of BSA/AML/OFAC for Mid Penn Bank, the chief operating subsidiary of Harrisburg-based Mid Penn Bancorp.Opferman worked most recently as director of risk for City of Boston Credit Union. Before that, he was director of fraud and BSA at Republic Bank for 14 years.He has a […]
Do you know who your owners are?It’s a question millions of businesses will have to answer by the end of the year under a federal law known as the Corporate Transparency Act.Enacted in 2021, the law requires corporations, LLCs, LPs and other business entities to report information about their owners and managers to a federal […]
Eschbach Real Estate Holdings 2 LLC paid $732,500 for a 4,968 square-foot office property at 840 Sir Thomas Court in Harrisburg, according to Dauphin County deed records. The seller was Dawn Marie Realty Inc.The office is slated to become a second location for BTI Group, a Wormleysburg-based company specializing in applied behavioral services for children, […]
Brandi Jacob Waechter has been named chief HR officer at York-based Kinsley Enterprises. She succeeds Bill Yanavitch, who became the company’s first chief HR officer in 2019. He is planning to retire at the end of this year. Before joining Kinsley, Yanavitch was an executive for about 17 years at Glatfelter, a paper maker formerly based […]
York County-based South County Brewing is planning to take over the former Pressroom restaurant in downtown Lancaster. The spot at 26 W. King St. will be the third for South County.Founded in 2011, the brewery also has locations in Fawn Grove and York Township in York County.When is this happening: The roughly 22,000 square-foot venue in downtown Lancaster […]
Jen Esser has been named managing partner of KPMG LLP’s Harrisburg office effective Nov. 1. She succeeds Carol Gauker, who is transitioning to a new role within the firm’s tax function. Esser has worked for KPMG since 1998 and has been a partner since 2016. In her new role, she is expected to guide the strategic […]
East York RE LLC, a local real estate investor, paid $265,000 for a 3,690 square-foot office at 1225 E. Market St. in York, according to York County deed records. The seller was UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals.Casey Khuri and Robin Zellers of Lemoyne-based NAI CIR represented the seller.
Central PA’s Source for Business News Online.