PepsiCo Inc., the Purchase-based beverage giant, announced that it has purchased V Water, a vitamin water brand in the United Kingdom. V Water, launched in 2005, is sold in six flavors and includes several added vitamins, minerals and herbal extracts. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

“V Water provides us with a strong platform for [...]

Drew Industries Inc., a White Plains-based manufacturer of parts for recreational vehicles, is buying an manufacturer of RV furniture and products.

Drew’s wholly owned subsidiary, Lippert Components Inc., said that the purchase of Goshen, Indiana-based Seating Technology Inc. adds a new product line for Drew.

Seating Technology’s products include folding sofas for toy hauler RVs, upholstered [...]

More than 1,000 high school students from Rockland, Westchester, Orange and Putnam counties learned today how to weld pipes, operate an excavator, fashion a brick wall and perform many other trades at the eighth annual Hudson Valley Construction Career Day.

During the event at the Rockland Community College Field House, students also met with leaders from [...]

MarineMax, the nation’s largest boating and yachting retailer, recently opened its newest outlet in New Rochelle. The dealership is at 2 Pelham Road next to the New Rochelle Municipal Marina.

Four companies based in Westchester County ranked among the top 50 companies for diversity in a list compiled by the publication DiversityInc.

PepsiCo Inc. of Purchase, Pepsi Bottling Group of Somers, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. of White Plains and IBM Corp. of Armonk made the list.

The rankings evaluate companies on diversity measures that [...]

The Women’s Enterprise Development Center Inc. of White Plains has been awarded a three-year grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to support its mission of training low and moderate income women and men in the Lower Hudson Valley to achieve economic sufficiency. The center was awarded $100,000 for the first year of the three-year [...]

Simply Slenda, a body wrap spa, recently opened at 139 Maple Ave. in New City. The business said it offers customers the opportunity to lose weight using a mineral body wrap process.

Total compensation rose 44 percent last year for Alberto Weisser, the chief executive officer of Bunge Ltd., the White Plains agri-business giant that benefited from a worldwide boom in agricultural commodities.

Weisser’s compensation of $10.4 million in 2007 was up from $7.2 million the previous year, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange [...]

Mark Day has been named senior director of cognitive neuroscience at PsychoGenics Inc., a biotechnology company based in Tarrytown. Day previously oversaw programs aimed at developing treatments for schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease at Wyeth Neuroscience and GlaxoSmithKline.

John Librie has been named senior vice president of sales and marketing at Acorda Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company based in Hawthorne. Librie, who has more than 25 years experience in the industry, joined Acorda in October 2003 as executive director of marketing and commercialization. He was promoted to vice president of sales and [...]

IntegraMed America Inc., a Purchase-based operator of fertility centers and vein clinics, said that the OU Physicians Reproductive Health in Oklahoma City, Okla., is the newest addition to its network of fertility centers. OU Physicians Reproductive Health is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The IntegraMed fertility network includes 31 contracted centers [...]

Opticon Inc., an Orangeburg-based developer of barcode scanning technology, announced that it was the winner of the AT&T Wireless Developer Program Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards 2008 in the best network compatible Device category. This award recognizes new cellular network devices that are compatible on the AT&T wireless network.

Questar Assessment Inc., a Brewster-based educational products company, reported a net loss of $1.66 million during its fiscal first quarter, compared to a net loss of $444,433 a year earlier. Revenues totaled $4.9 million, down from from $9.6 million a year earlier.

Retailer TJX Companies Inc. agreed to pay up to $24 million to settle claims made by MasterCard issuers related to hackers breaching the retailer’s computer system in 2006.

Under the settlement, banks that issued MasterCard-branded cards can recover costs and losses they claimed to have incurred in connection with the breach, according to MasterCard.

TJX, the [...]

On2 Technologies Inc. of Tarrytown said that it has delayed the filing of its 2007 annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company, which creates advanced video compression technologies for desktop and wireless systems, said it will wait to file the report until its board audit committee completes a review focused [...]

Haights Cross Communications Inc., a White Plains-based educational and library publisher, reported a net loss of $16.4 million during the fourth quarter, less than the net loss of $22.3 million a year earlier.

Revenue of $57.5 million was up 5.1 percent over a year earlier as the company benfited from growth in its test preparation, [...]

Denise Coll has been promoted to president of the North America division at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. of White Plains. It is the largest of Starwood’s operating divisions with more than $9 billion in annual revenue. Coll began her career in the hospitality industry as a reservation manager at the Sheraton Boston Hotel [...]

Four Points by Sheraton is accelerating its expansion in Asia Pacific with plans to open six new hotels in the Asia Pacific region this year.

The hotel brand, operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. of White Plains, said that the investment will include four hotels in China and its first hotel in Malaysia. [...]

Home foreclosure judgements soared 80 percent in Westchester County during the first quarter as local residents felt the fallout from a slowing economy and weakening housing market.

There were 243 foreclosure judgements across the county during the quarter, up from 135 a year ago and 76 in 2005, according to statistics released by the Westchester County [...]

Coastal Federal Credit Union of Raleigh, N.C., agreed to a five-year contract that calls for IBM Corp. to provide mortgage loan fulfillment services. As part of the agreement, Armonk-based IBM will provide Coastal with a range of lending services, including loan application processing, underwriting, vendor management and document preparation. Coastal has 172,000 members [...]