The virtual-assistant business has been a source of real-world growth for Zirtual, a portfolio company of Lancaster-based investment firm PennSpring Capital. Zirtual closed Friday on the acquisition
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg is planning a birthday celebration this week designed to reintroduce the 25-year-old center to the community. The celebration kicks off Monday Sept. 9 with a private lunch for the center’s founding board and staff members, as well as other community leaders who helped bring Whitaker to Harrisburg. Tuesday […]
A Harrisburg-area construction equipment dealership is extending its footprint southward through the acquisition of a company with offices in Maryland and Virginia. Stephenson Equipment Inc. said last week it purchased Valley Supply & Equipment, a business founded in 1982 by Howard Klein and last owned by his two sons, Adam and Brandon. Terms of the transaction […]
Al Patel has been named chief marketing officer at West Shore Home, a Mechanicsburg-based home improvement company. Patel most recently led marketing teams at Trugreen, and Culligan International. He also has led brand marketing efforts at MillerCoors and Procter and Gamble. At West Shore Home, Patel will focus on strengthening the brand, modernizing the consumer and digital experience, and growing the […]
Phoenix Contact USA, based in Middletown, restructured its leadership team as of Sept. 1. The changes are in preparation for the Dec. 31 retirement of President Jack Nehlig after 23 years with the company. Heath Scoggin has been promoted to president of device connectors for the business area and will lead Phoenix Contact development and […]
Alan Chachapoya, the managing director of DSC Solutions, a Lancaster County-based commercial cleaning company, is seeing opportunities where others do not. Chachapoya recently bought Guaranteed Property Services, another Lancaster-based company in the same industry. Founded in 1997, Guaranteed Property Services operates Guaranteed Carpet Services, C&S Cleaning, and Personalized Commercial Cleaning. Mike Graybill, the owner of Guaranteed Property Services, will join the […]
The city of Harrisburg is asking a federal court to dismiss the bankruptcy case of Uptown Partners LP, the Maryland-based owner of the Governor’s Square apartment complex in uptown Harrisburg In a filing last month, the city argues that the deteriorating apartment complex is “unlikely” to find a buyer and that state court would be a […]
Robert Hutchinson has been hired as a manager in the tax services and small business practice groups at Boyer & Ritter, a Camp Hill-based accounting firm. Hutchinson, an accountant with over 10 years of experience, most recently worked as a senior accountant with another Pennsylvania firm, analyzing business budgets, assisting with tax planning and projections, […]
Jill Laskowitz, president-elect of the Lancaster Bar Association, has joined McNees Wallace & Nurick as an of counsel attorney in the Harrisburg-based law firm’s family and collaborative law group and its litigation group. An experienced family law attorney, Laskowitz handles matters around divorce, including custody, support and equitable distribution of marital property, and regularly drafts […]
Rod Hershberger has been named to the board of MITER Brands, a residential window and door manufacturer based in Harrisburg, effective July 25.In 1980, Hershberger co-founded VinylTech, a vinyl porch enclosure manufacturing company, with Paul Hostetler, and the duo began producing products in Venice, Florida, with just three employees. In 1987, Hershberger and Hostetler recognized […]