Community Bank of Orange said that it expects to open a branch at 715 Route 304 in Bardonia around Nov. 1. The bank received federal regulatory approval to open the branch as part of the recently completed recapitalization that raised $23.4 million in new capital.

People’s United Bank recently opened its fourth branch in Westchester County at 59 Kensico Road in Thornwood. The branch includes a free self-service coffee bar, a stock quotation machine, a free self-serve coin-counting machine and plasma television sets airing financial news.

Bunge Ltd., the White Plains-based agribusiness giant, and Itochu, a Japanese trading company, expect to invest $800 million in two joint ventures that will produce sugar and ethanol in Brazil.

In one project, Itochu will buy a 20 percent stake in a sugar-cane mill in Santa Juliana, Brazil, that Bunge bought last year. Bunge and Itochu plan to expand the production capacity from 1.6 million tons to 4.2 million tons within four years.

In a second project, the companies said they will build a new sugar and ethanol mill in Brazil.

IBM Corp. has opened a Global Service Delivery Center in Egypt, Big Blue’s first in the region. Initially, IBM will have 100 employees there but expects to have 1,000 in a few years.

The center provides business consulting and software-related services to clients in the region as well as in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

IBM’s Samuel J. Palmisano has been meeting recently with top officials from Egypt to discuss his company’s role in helping create new initiatives focused on scientific research and the country’s economy. Palmisano, IBM’s president and chief executive officer, met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as well as Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif.

The Armonk-based computer giant has also signed a deal with the government to create a nanotechnology research center in Cairo, where Egyptian scientists and engineers will work side-by-side with IBM scientists and engineers. The work there will be coordinated with IBM Research labs in Yorktown Heights as well as in California and Switzerland.

“Egypt faces a major opportunity; the seat of one of the world’s oldest civilizations is now an emerging player onto the world stage of a new, globalized economy. I am impressed and optimistic about its future because of the way it is nurturing its talent, its human resources and its technical potential,” Palmisano said in a written statement.

One to One Leadership, a management and consulting company in Pelham, has started a new recruiting division called One to One People. The division, started by Sean O’Neil, a One to One principal, will recruit professionals for businesses across any industry and of any size. To help manage the new divsion, the company has appointed Philip Myers executive vice president. He has more than 20 years of experience working with international brands, including Citigroup, IBM, Xerox and Microsoft. One to One also has an office in Florida.

The recent departure of Lubin’s Men’s & Boy’s World and a Chinese restaurant from a White Plains strip mall has resulted in the 6,000-square-foot expansion of Wine Warehouse, according to Goldschmidt & Associates, the agency that negotiated the deal.

In addition, three new tenants, Carpet World, Bushido Karate and Royal Beauty Supply, occupy the remainder of the vacated space in the Loehmann’s Shopping Center on Route 119.

With the expansion and the additions, the strip mall is fully leased, the Scarsdale-based leasing agent said.

IBM Corp. of Armonk plans to build a $360 million data center at its plant in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

The data center will include new technologies and services that will enable the computing giant to provide individuals with access to information and services from any device with high levels of quality and availability, IBM said.

IBM will renovate an existing building at the North Carolina campus to create one of the most technologically advanced and energy-efficient data centers in the world, it said.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has opened a new Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Levis, Quebec, the hotelier said today.

The hotel, situated across the river from Quebec City, has 150 rooms and a 15,000-square-foot conference center.

White Plains-based Starwood operates 130 Four Points hotels in 22 countries.

The United States Playing Card Co., a division of Rye-based Jarden Corp., will invest more than $30 million to establish a new manufacturing, distribution and headquarters campus in Boone County, Ky., near Cincinnati. The playing card company has operated in the Cincinnati area since 1901. The 570,000-square foot complex also will serve as the headquarters for Loew-Cornell, another Jarden company and a major player in the art and craft supply market.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. reports it has opened its first aloft brand hotel in the United States in Southern California.

The aloft Ontario-Rancho Cucamonga is expected to appeal to Los Angeles area business travelers as well as tourists to destinations such as Joshua Tree National Park, the White Plains-based hotelier said.

Aloft hotels are marketed as affordable, fashionable inns that feature high-tech amenities.

Starwood said it expects to open 18 of the new-concept hotels this year in cities worldwide.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. said today it has plans to open a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under the hotelier’s St. Regis brand.

The 200 room luxury hotel, which would also have 200 residences as well as restaurants and meeting halls, is scheduled to open in 2014, White Plains-based Starwood said.

Shares of Starwood were lower in late-afternoon trading, down $1.07, or 2.2 percent, to $47.18 a share.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. said today its Le Meridien hotel division plans to open one hotel each in and Xiamen, China, in 2009, and Taipei, Taiwan, in 2011, as part of a planned expansion of the brand in the Asia-Pacific region.

The announcement follows plans released last year to open five Le Meridien brand hotels in Thailand, three of which are planned for this year. Le Meridien, which Starwood acquired in 2005, operates 110 hotels in 50 countries.

People’s United Bank plans to open a branch in White Plains later this month, the Bridgeport, Conn.-based financial-services company said today.

The new office, at 14 Mamaroneck Ave., across from the Ritz-Carlton Westchester, will open June 30, People’s United said in a written statement.

The downtown White Plains branch joins two existing branches in the county — in Scarsdale and Mount Kisco. In addition to those in Westchester, the company operates some 300 branches throughout Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts.

The White Plains office will employ six workers, People’s United said.

Trustco Bank recently opened its newest branch at 132 Fifth Ave. in Pelham. Parent company TrustCo Bank Corp NY of Glenville has assets of $3.4 billion and operates 112 branches in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Vermont and Massachusetts. A grand opening at the Pelham branch is planned for June 14 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Verizon Communications Inc. said that it will add more than 60 channels to the lineup of its cable television service this summer.

That service, known as FiOS TV, is available to 6.5 million homes in 13 states, including dozens of markets in Westchester and Rockland counties.

Included in the new offerings will be more than 25 high-definition channels, bringing the total number of HD channels to between 52 and 65, depending on the market, according to Verizon. Customers will be able to see popular channels in HD, including Lifetime, Animal Planet, TLC, Science Channel and Smithsonian Channel. Also planned are five new HD movie channels from Starz and Showtime.

Another new channel is Setanta Sports, which features European and international soccer and rugby matches. Verizon said that it will also add about 15 multicultural channels to the FiOS TV lineup, including channels for Arabic, Portuguese and Russian audiences.

The company added that the rollout of new channels will proceed region by region starting in early July.

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 Blue Hill office tower in Pearl River.

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 in cell phones and other electronic gear, said I3A, based in White Plains.

An expert in imaging and display processes, Barda has registered a dozen patents, some of which are still used in TV production, such as multilingual captioning, I3A said.

Barda also served on the group’s board and its predecessor organization, DIG, for six years, I3A said.

Hudson Valley Bank plans to open a new branch in Brooklyn, the Yonkers-based financial-services company said today.

The planned office, at 16 Court Street, will focus on serving the needs of attorneys and nonprofit organizations, as well as other businesses and individuals, in downtown Brooklyn, bank President and Chief Executive Officer James J. Landy said.

The branch is expected to open in early summer.

Hudson Valley Bank has 26 branches in Westchester, Rockland, New York City and Stamford, Conn. It is a unit of Hudson Valley Holding Corp., which also owns New York National Bank, formerly NYNB Bank.

Hudson Valley Bank has opened a new branch on Manhattan’s West Side, it said today.

The office, at 112 W. 34th St., near Herald Square and Penn Station, joins three others the Yonkers-based financial-services company operates in Manhattan.

Hudson Valley Bank is a unit of Hudson Valley Holding Corp., which also owns NYNB Bank.

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 in 101 locations nationally.