Kimberly Bishop, an executive recruiter and career management expert, will speak on finding a job, recession-proofing your career, and transitioning to a new industry on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Doral Arrowwood in Rye Brook. Admission is free. BusinessWeek named Bishop to its list of World’s Top Recruiters. She has been featured on CNBC, CNN, The [...]

The Westchester County Association will host a networking reception for young professionals on Tuesday, July 28 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Elements Bar at 161 Mamaroneck Ave. in White Plains. Other sponsoring groups include the Young CPA/Westchester chapter of the New York State Society of CPAs and the New Lawyers Section of the Westchester County Bar [...]

“Coach Your Sales People Into Sales Champions” is the topic of the Westchester County Association’s Lunch & Learn program on Thursday, June 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mapleton Room at Good Counsel, 52 North Broadway, White Plains. Keith Rosen, president of Profit Builders and an award-winning columnist and author and an [...]

Broad questions involving intellectual property rights will be explored at a two-day conference sponsored by Iona College in New Rochelle next week. The Conference on Intellectual Property takes place Friday and Saturday, June 12-13. Keynote speakers are Joy Garnett, an artist who appropriates news and documentary photographs from newspapers, the Internet and other media and [...]

Mack-Cali Realty Corp. said that Fabrication Enterprises Inc. had signed a six-year lease renewal for 21,000 square feet of space at the Cross Westchester Executive Park in Elmsford, and was expanding into an additional 16,000 feet. The company makes and distributes products for physical therapy, rehabilitation, home health and sports medicine. It also renewed a [...]

The Westchester Medical Group said it will consolidate administrative offices at 32,000 square feet of space at 2700 Westchester Ave. in Purchase by the end of September. It will add 40 to 50 more employees at the site over the next 18 months. Chief Financial Officer Clark Yoder said the group was moving administrative offices [...]

A program scheduled for Wednesday, June 3, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division in White Plains on stress management in the workplace has been cancelled due to lack of registrants, the Business Council of Westchester said.

The Rockland Business Association will hold its second annual Green Council Seminar on Wednesday, June 3, from 8 a.m. to noon at Rockland Community College in Suffern. The program will focus on making businesses more profitable through the adoption of “green” principles. The association will unveil a Web-based toolkit that will help businesses become more [...]

Rockland Economic Development Corp. will hold a free program on how small businesses can obtain contracts with the Hudson Valley Municipal Purchasing Group. The program starts at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 11 at the Ellipse Room of the Technology Center of Rockland Community College at 145 College Road in Suffern. The program will discuss [...]

Rachele Rose Day Spa has opened at 110 S. Central Ave., Hartsdale. The business is run by sisters Rachele Nicoletti and Rosa Calabrese.

ITT Corp. shareholders at today’s annual meeting rejected a proposal by several church groups that would have required the global manufacturer to prepare a report on its foreign sales of military and weapons-related products and services. The proposal drew just 6.8 percent of the votes cast at the meeting, the company said. Its sponsors were [...]

The African American Chamber of Commerce of Westchester and Rockland Counties and QBR/The Black Book Review will host the West/Rock African American Book Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at Mount Vernon City Hall Plaza. The festival will hold an opening reception from 6-9 p.m. Friday evening at Lvsiadas Portuguese Restaurant in [...]

An impairment charge and a general decline in business led to a sharp first-quarter loss at Drew Industries Inc. of White Plains, a supplier of parts for manufactured homes and recreational vehicles. The company lost $36.7 million, or $1.70 a share, on sales of $71 million. For the comparable quarter a year earlier, Drew had [...]

Helping small business is this year’s theme for the annual Yonkers Business Week, starting Monday. Among the programs scheduled are a seminar on raising credit, starting a business and writing a business plan, buying a franchise, managing and transferring risk, and using social media Web sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Featured speakers include Stew [...]

Westchester County will host a free workshop, “Developing Job Skills in Hard Times: Alternative Ways to Career Success,” Thursday, April 30 at 4:30 p.m. at the YWCA of White Plains and Northern Westchester, 515 North St., White Plains. Employment experts will discuss such topics as volunteer work that can lead to a paying job, opting [...]

Tompkins Financial Corp. of Ithaca, the owner of Mahopac National Bank and Tompkins Trustco, said it had first-quarter net income of $7.74 million, or 79 cents a share, on net interest income of $25.9 million. For the comparable quarter a year earlier, it had net income of $7.54 million, or 77 cents a share, on [...]

Mack-Cali Realty Corp. said Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. has signed a five-year lease renewal for 28,000 square feet at 4 Warehouse Lane, at the Elmsford Distribution Center. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation provides technology-based products and services for the rail industry.

The Westchester Putnam Central Labor Body will hold its annual rally Thursday, April 30 in Valhalla to commemorate workers who have died on the job, and later will sponsor a fund-raising dinner for a memorial. Five local workers—Wayne Bleidner, Luis De Oliviera, Kenneth McGrath, Bruce Plunkett, and David Vasquez—will be remembered at the rally at [...]

Shareholders at Hudson Valley Bank in Yonkers will vote next month on allowing the board of directors to issue up to 15 million shares of preferred stock, a move that the bank said would provide it with more flexibility in future capital decisions. President and Chief Executive James J. Landy said yesterday there are no [...]

The Yonkers Downtown Business Improvement District will present a free seminar, “Secrets of Internet Marketing,” Tuesday morning from 8-9 at the Yonkers Riverfront Library at 1 Larkin Center. Speakers include Mara Rupners, communications director for ArtsWestchester; David Hoffman of Search Smart Marketing; and City Hall Director of Communications David Simpson.