Neal L. Sullivan, president of Sullivan Financial Group in Mahopac, has been elected chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc.

As chairman, Sullivan oversees the statewide organization’s activities, serves on its executive committee and reports to its board of directors, IIABNY said.

Sullivan’s one-year term began May 9 when the association held [...]

Money manager Christopher Conover, a New City native, has opened Hudson Valley Wealth Management in his hometown at 151 N. Main St.

The fee-only investment advisory firm has three employees.

The firm’s Web site is www.hudsonvalleywealth.com.

Debt Resolve Inc. told regulators today that it can’t file its quarterly earnings statement due to delays in collecting information required for the report.

The White Plains-based company, which helps to settle payment disputes online, said it expects to file the quarterly report by June 5, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Shares [...]

AFP Imaging Corp. reported today its fiscal third-quarter loss grew 262 percent to $1.37 million from $378,929 a year ago.

On a per-share basis, the Elmsford-based supplier of imaging equipment to medical and dental offices reported it lost 8 cents a share during the three months that ended March 31, greater than the 3 cents a [...]

Prestige Brands Holdings Inc. reported net income rose in the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, which ended March 31, to $10.4 million, up 24 percent from the $8.4 million it reported a year ago.

On a per-share basis, the Irvington-based maker of familiar household products reported it earned 21 cents a share, compared to 17 cents a [...]

ITT Corp. promoted vice presidents Angela Buonocore and Aris Chicles to senior vice presidents, the Harrison-based company said yesterday.

Buonocore, 50, joined ITT in 2007 and serves as chief communications officer, having come from the Pepsi Bottling Group in Somers, where she was vice president of corporate communications. Chicles, 46, hired in 2006, is ITT’s director [...]

Oasis Day Spa, which has locations in Manhattan and Kennedy Airport in Queens, plans to open a 7,000-square-foot spa in Dobbs Ferry at 50 Livingstone Ave. this fall.

The spa is part of a redevelopment of the former Akzo Nobel chemical plant site, just off Exit 16 of the Saw Mill River Parkway.

Oasis Day Spa will [...]

Haights Cross Communications Inc., a White Plains-based educational and library publisher, today reported a net loss of $9.8 million during the first quarter, less than the net loss of $12.4 million a year earlier.

Revenue of $51.8 million fell 2.1 percent from a year earlier, reflecting declines in the company’s K-12 supplemental education and medical education [...]

Tompkins Financial Corp. used $21 million of a $25 million credit line with JPMorgan Chase Bank to finance its $30.2 million purchase of Sleepy Hollow Bancorp Inc., Tompkins disclosed in a regulatory filing today.

The deal, which merged Mahopac National Bank with Sleepy Hollow Bancorp, closed Friday.

The six Sleepy Hollow banks, in Pleasantville, Ossining, Yonkers and [...]

The Epilepsy Society of Southern New York and Capabilities Partnership Inc. have moved to larger offices in the JCC Rockland complex at 450 West Nyack Road in West Nyack, the groups said today.

The organizations, which have a satellite office in Tarrytown, provide services to those with epilepsy and developmental disabilities.

The groups were previously housed in [...]

The International Imaging Industry Association has opened an office in Gargilesse, France, and hired a coordinator to lead outreach efforts in Europe, the trade group, known as I3A, said today.

Jean Barda, an imaging industry veteran, will lead the association’s efforts in Europe to promote growth of and establishes standards for photographic equipment such as lenses [...]

At its annual meeting of shareholders in Tarrytown today, ITT Corp. reiterated it expects to earn $4 to $4.10 a share in 2008 on revenues of about $11.5 billion.

In other business, shareholders re-elected nine of 10 board members on its board of directors, the Harrison-based defense contractor said.

Raymond LeBoeuf, an ITT director since 2000, is [...]

Shares of EpiCept Corp. were higher by a penny a share in afternoon trading today, at 48 cents a share, after reaching a 52-week low of 44 cents a share Friday, following news that the company’s shares face renewed scrutiny by Nasdaq officials.

The Eastview-based biotechnology company said Friday it was notified two days prior that [...]

Prudential Rand Realty has agreed to acquire Nelson Vrooman Real Estate, a White Plains-based firm established more than 50 years ago that has become victim of the downturn in home sales in the Lower Hudson Valley.

“This is a very competitive market, and I knew that the best way to serve my clients and associates was [...]

For consumers who pay for prescription drugs out their own pockets, a new price study by Yonkers-based Consumer Reports finds it pays to shop around.

The consumer publication’s research showed that not only that prices vary from store to store for the same, but the differences can be dramatic — even within the same chain, depending [...]

Assemblywoman Sandy Galef, D-Ossining, will host a forum aimed at helping Lower Hudson Valley residents to start their own businesses.

Galef will be joined by a panel of more than half-a-dozen experts to discuss small-business start up and growth opportunities in Westchester and Putnam counties.

In addition, participants will explain how local and state organizations can assist [...]

Two consumer-advocacy organizations are criticizing a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation into a generic version of a popular, once-daily dose antidepressant, calling the regulatory agency’s review “inadequate.”

White Plains-based ConsumerLab.com and The People’s Pharmacy, of Durham, N.C., faulted a affirmative determination by the FDA that a generic version of Wellbutrin XL 300, manufactured by Impax [...]

IBM Corp. acquired Diligent Technologies Corp., a Framingham, Mass., technology company, the Armonk-based computing giant said today.

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Diligent, which has operations in Tel Aviv, Israel, develops “de-duplication” software that helps organizations reduce the amount and cost of of physical storage needed in data centers. Diligent will be folded into Armonk-based IBM’s [...]

The North Rockland Business Alliance is sponsoring a job fair and career expo tonight and tomorrow at North Rockland High School at 106 Hammond Road in Thiells.

The event starts at 6 p.m. this evening and runs until 9 p.m. Tomorrow, hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Admission is free.

The event allows visitors to learn about [...]

HomeGoods, a discount home-furnishings retailer, plans to open its first Rockland outlet in Nanuet, according to Metro Commercial, a commercial real-estate firm.

HomeGoods signed a lease to occupy the bulk of the space Office Depot once occupied in the Rockland Center shopping center at Route 59 and Smith Street, said Metro Commercial, which represented the landlord, [...]