Alfred B. DelBello has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the Westchester County Association, becoming the 30th chairman in the business organization’s 57-year history.

The WCA made the announcement today. Two other officers and five board members were also elected.

DelBello, an attorney, businessman and former elected official, succeeds Stanley E. Freimuth, former senior [...]

RREEF, a global investment company based in San Francisco, announced yesterday that it has acquired Mount Kisco Medical Center. The 38,800 square-foot building is adjacent to Northern Westchester Hospital. It was previously owned by Tolchin Property Group. The price was not disclosed.

Michael Berne of Cushman & Wakefield, the broker for the seller, said there [...]

Shleppers Moving & Storage, a residential and commercial moving company based in Elmsford, recently acquired Elmsford-based Royal Moving Systems, Inc., a full service residential and commercial moving company, and Miracle Moving, a high-end company based in New York City.

Allen Golan, who was president of Royal, was named chief operating officer of Shleppers, and Nissim [...]

Fortistar LLC, based in White Plains, announced that it has acquired Minnesota Methane LLC and United Gasco LLC from TD Banknorth NA. The portfolio includes 15 landfill gas-to-energy projects located mainly in California, the Midwest and the Northeast. The price of the transaction was not disclosed.

Fortistar takes landfill gas, which is methane, and converts it [...]

Westchester’s employment outlook is expected to be one of the weakest in the nation, with employers planning to hire at a stagnant pace during the fourth quarter, according to the Manpower Inc. Employment Outlook Survey released yesterday.

From October to December, 17 percent of companies surveyed expect to hire more employees, 17 percent plan to reduce [...]

Representatives from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s New York Regional Office will visit Putnam County Wednesday to give a seminar with the Putnam County Economic Development Corp. and lead a tour of successful small businesses in the county. The seminar is from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Mahopac Public Library, third floor, 668 [...]

J.D. Power and Associates has ranked Verizon Wireless highest in the Northeast based on having fewer reported problems with initial connections, echoes and voice distortion. Verizon Wireless has regional headquarters in Orangeburg. The results were from the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study — Volume 2 released last week. The [...]

Verizon Wireless, based in Orangeburg, is seeking qualified applicants to fill customer-facing positions in business sales, telesales and its Communications Stores throughout the New York metropolitan area. Last year, Verizon Wireless hired more than 800 employees locally to keep pace with the growing demand for its wireless voice and data products and services, the company [...]

Simon Property Group Inc. is expanding its energy-efficiency program for its malls throughout the United States by partnering with ConEdison Solutions, ConEdison Solutions announced today

A subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Inc., ConEd Solutions is an energy-services company based in White Plains.

Simon Property Group, based in Indianapolis, is the nation’s largest owner, manager and developer of retail [...]

YONKERS — Aureon Laboratories Inc. announced today the successful completion of an initial study with AstraZeneca designed to identify patients with non-small-cell lung cancer that could benefit from treatment with AstraZeneca’s Iressa.

Aureon’s System Pathology approach is intended to enable medical professionals to predict how patients will respond to specific drugs. It uses computer-based image analysis [...]

CVS Pharmacy will move into the new mixed-use building at 7 Popham Road in Scarsdale, adjacent to the Metro North train station, this month. The 15,000-square-foot retail space will replace the smaller store at 90 Garth Road in Scarsdale.
By the end of the year, CVS will move into the 16,000-square-foot space at 24 [...]

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Federal scientists will have money to proceed with a monumental study of cancer rates among 28,000 IBM Endicott employees that will advance science about chemical exposure, U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey said Thursday.

Hinchey, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said he has secured funding necessary for the National Institute of Occupational Health & [...]

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in Eastview, is one step closer to having its first marketable drug. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review status to its drug for a rare inflammatory condition. Rilonacept, which Regeneron calls the Interleukin-1 (IL-1) Trap, is designed to inhibit a disease-causing protein called Interleukin [...]

Home Instead Senior Care, which provides non-medical, in-home services to seniors, announced that it has transferred the ownership of the Northern Westchester and Putnam County territory to Brian Trainor. The office is in Carmel, and Trainor plans to open as second location in the next few months.

Trainor, who lives in Yorktown Heights, owns and [...]

Blue Chip Public Relations Inc., which specializes in providing PR and media-relations services for financial companies, announced that it has been retained by Horizon Wealth Management LLC.

Horizon, based in Baton Rouge, La., is an independent financial advisory firm that provides advice to business owners, individuals and professional athletes. It also has offices in North Carolina, [...]

CBLPath Inc., a pathology services provider, has leased the entire third floor of a Rye Brook building for 10 years, expanding its presence at 760 Westchester Ave. by 55 percent. CBLPath now occupies the entire 65,000-square-foot building, said Marisa Manley, president of Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation Ltd. (CTRR), who brokered the transaction. 

CBLPath expanded because [...]

New Rochelle has become the latest city to allow Verizon to offer its FiOS fiber-optic television service to residents. The City Council voted Thursday night to approve a franchise agreement, which now must be reviewed by the state Public Service Commission.

“It provides competition, which the city administration and officials have supported and it provides for [...]

Platt, Barth, Elson & Steinman P.C., an accounting firm based in Tarrytown, has merged with Marks Paneth & Shron LLP, a Manhattan accounting and consulting firm with an office in Tarrytown. The merged firm is operating as Marks Paneth & Shron and has offices at 660 White Plains Road in Tarrytown.

Michael A. Brennan has been appointed president of Reader’s Digest Europe and chief executive officer of Direct Holdings Worldwide, the Reader’s Digest unit that manages the Time Life business. The announcement was made yesterday by Mary Berner, president and CEO of The Reader’s Digest Association.

Brennan had been president of the company’s Latin America and Asia-Pacific [...]

Prudential Rand Realty announced yesterday that it has acquired Michael A. Gibbons Realty Inc. in Dobbs Ferry.

“We are building a formidable presence in the river towns and Michael and his associates are a great addition to our sales force there,� Arlyne Ashkinos, vice president of Prudential Rand Realty, said in a statement.

Prudential Rand, based in [...]