The Pepsi Bottling Group, the world’s largest manufacturer, seller and distributor of Pepsi-Cola beverages, has received a 2007 Green Power Leadership award from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency. The Somers-based bottler purchased Renewable Energy Certificates that represent 100 percent of the company’s electricity needs. Pepsi Bottling Group is fourth on the EPA’s Top 25 Green [...]

Haights Cross Communications Inc. of White Plains announced its third-quarter results and named a new president and chief executive. Company founder Peter J. Quandt resigned as chairman, president and chief executive in August following sweeping changes at the company. The new president and CEO is Paul J. Crecca, who was named interim president and CEO [...]

A several-million-dollar makeover that’s been in the planning for four years is almost complete at the Rye Ridge Shopping Center. The popular Rye Brook plaza-style shopping center has new storefronts and awnings, lighting, landscaping and improvements to the parking area. Erin Hinchey, leasing agent for Ridge Realty LLC, the owner of the shopping center, said [...]

Maxx Properties, an apartment owner and manager, has sold its office building in Mamaroneck and moved to new offices in Harrison. Maxx Properties sold its 32,000-square-foot office building at 875 Mamaroneck Ave. to KOSL Building Corp. The company has leased the fifth floor at 600 Mamaroneck Ave. in Harrison. It occupies 24,000 square feet at [...]

White Plains-based Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. plans to open the second Element hotel in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The hotel giant has an agreement with an affiliate of The Buccini/Pollin Group to open the hotel at the Dulles Parkway Center in Dulles, Va., in February 2010. Element Dulles North will incorporate ecologically [...]

The Pepsi Bottling Group, the world’s largest manufacturer, seller and distributor of Pepsi-Cola beverages, has received a 2007 Green Power Leadership award from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency. The Somers-based bottler purchased Renewable Energy Certificates that represent 100 percent of the company’s electricity needs. Pepsi Bottling Group is fourth on the EPA’s Top 25 Green [...]

Chappaqua-based Reader’s Digest Association and its online recipe site, Allrecipes.com, have created the Food Advertising Network RDA. The network is designed to serve small and medium-sized companies that want to advertise in the online food category. The network includes the food sites Allrecipes.com, TasteOfHome.com, RachaelRayMag.com and ChefsCatalog.com. Allrecipes.com has 15 million annual visitors. The new [...]

EpiCept Corp., which develops drugs to treat cancer, reported results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. The Tarrytown-based company said it lost $7.7 million, or 20 cents a share, in this year’s quarter, compared to a loss of $5.5 million, or 22 cents a share, a year ago. On Oct. 10, EpiCept said it [...]

Nutrition 21 Inc., a Purchase-based maker of nutritional supplements, is introducing new nutritional supplement called Core4Life Advanced Memory Formula. The supplement combines chromium picolinate, phosphatidylserine and DHA, ingredients Nutrition 21 says play an important role in helping improve memory and maintain brain health.

Universal American Financial Corp., an insurance holding company in Rye Brook, said that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have approved its bids to offer Medicare Advantage HMO plans in six markets in 2008. Those include the Texas communities of Houston, Beaumont and Dallas; Oklahoma City and Tulsa in Oklahoma; and Milwaukee, Wis.

The medical condition of Thomas E. Hales, the chairman and chief executive officer of Union State Bank in Orangeburg, has been upgraded from serious to good following last week’s double lung transplant, a spokesman at University of Maryland Medical Center said yesterday. Bank officials could not be reached for comment. Hales, 71, is the bank’s [...]

Debt Resolve Inc., a White Plains company that provides a way for lenders and debtors to settle disputes online, said that it has reached a settlement of a pending patent infringement lawsuit with Apollo Enterprise Solutions. The parties have agreed that Apollo’s Intelligent Debt Solutions system does not infringe on Debt Resolve’s U.S. patents. Debt [...]

Frank Lalli has been appointed editor-in-chief of international editions and magazine development for The Reader’s Digest Association Inc. Lalli will report to Mary Berner, RDA’s president and chief executive officer. Lalli is replacing Conrad Kiechel in an expanded role. Kiechel, the editorial director, international, plans to leave Reader’s Digest after he helps with the January [...]

South Salem teen Laura Côté, one of just 30 young businesspeople competing in a national entrepreneurship contest, made it to top 10 semifinals but wasn’t among the top 3 winners. Côté, 18, took her idea for a child-friendly haircutting business to the second annual Smith Barney/NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge event in New York City [...]

Purchase resident Robert Wolf, the chairman and chief executive of UBS Group Americas, is receiving the Corporate Leadership Award from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation at a fund-raising gala on Oct. 27. The award honors business leaders who have supported the foundation and its mission. Wolf, who is a former member of the foundation’s board [...]

A Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant is opening on the fourth floor of the Palisades Center in West Nyack. The grand opening will be Oct. 7 at noon, when the first 100 customers will receive free wings for a year as an opening gift. The restaurant features a plethora of big-screen TVs for sports fans who [...]

AFP Imaging Corp. of Elmsford has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its NewTom VG Cone Beam Computed Tomography Scanner. The imaging system allows dentists to see detailed three-dimensional, radiographic images of the teeth and jaws. Patients can stand, sit or remain in their wheelchairs while being scanned. The unit [...]

Generic drug giant Par Pharmaceutical Cos. said today during an event for analysts and investors in New York that it will catch up with its financial filings by the end of the year and is working on completing its quarterly results for the first and second quarters of 2007. Par said it expects to report [...]

The new NBC TV series “Bionic Woman� and the PBS show for younger viewers, “WordGirl,� are the inspiration for the theme of this year’s Association for Women in Communications 2007 Matrix Awards. Unlike a lot of male superheroes who have sidekicks (think Batman and Robin), female superheroes tend to go solo — just like women [...]

Citizens in China will soon be able to stop at the grocery store and pick up a bottled Frappuccino or DoubleShot espresso thanks to an expanding partnership between Purchase-based PepsiCo Inc. and the Seattle-based coffee drink giant. Starbucks and PepsiCo will bring Starbucks’ ready-to-drink beverages around the world with the first stop being China, where [...]