Competitiveness Agenda

Permitting, healthcare costs drive State Chamber’s Competitiveness Agenda

Peter OsborneBusiness, Government, Headlines

The business community is paying close attention to what the General Assembly will do in the current session. Still, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce President Michael Quaranta isn’t wholly convinced that legislators are paying attention to what the business community needs. “If you walked around Legislative Hall and asked the 41 members of the House if they could name the …

State Chamber announces new board members for 2025

Staff WriterBusiness, News Briefs

The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce approved the following new members to its board of directors and Board of Governors, effective January 1, 2025. The State Chamber welcomed three new board directors: Greg Smith, Chemours Ann B. Wayne, BSN, RN, SUN Behavioral Delaware Bob McGuckin, Verizon The following business and community leaders were elected to the State Chamber’s Board of …

TSD Review Sept 26

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – September 26, 2024

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Stories Include Pedestrian/bicyclist pathway sought under Concord Pike Hanover Foods gets $1 million to upgrade Clayton plant Concord Diner in North Wilmington is for sale – on Facebook Carney vetoes assisted suicide bill, Dems could try override 5 schools win Sapphire Award for counseling success Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

CSC Delaware State Chamber of Commerce Rod Ward III

CSC’s Rod Ward to keynote State Chamber’s annual dinner

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Business

CSC President and CEO Rod Ward III will give the keynote speech at Jan. 13’s annual Delaware State Chamber dinner on Jan. 13. The event, one of the best-attended business gatherings of the year, draws 1,100 politicians and business leaders together for a cocktail hour and then a dinner at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington. The evening …

TSD Review Aug 29

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – August 29, 2024

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Stories Include Delaware’s guide to Labor Day Weekend 2024 State $$$ to help Newark dairy upgrade filling machines Sleeping Bird Doughnuts opens on Concord Pike Round 1 of early voting for Sept. 10 primary opens Wednesday Pritchett Academy opening rocks Wilmington with celebration Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

Delaware superstars in business

Chamber’s Business Superstars include Nature Society, Surf Bagel

Betsy PriceBusiness, Headlines

  The Delaware Nature Society, Courageous Hearts, RiversEdge Advisors and Surf Bagel have been named the 2024 Superstars in Business by the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce. The honorees will be recognized at an awards ceremony Nov. 6. Joining them will be Award of Excellence recipients Down Syndrome Association of Delaware (nonprofit); Jack Lingo Asset Management (1-14 employee category); Tevebaugh Architecture …

paid leave

Proposed Family leave changes: Have contractor determine eligibility

Betsy PriceGovernment, Headlines

Changes continue to Delaware’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program, which became law in 2o22, and was sold as a way to give all employees, not just those at big companies, paid leave for emergencies and become a parent. Originally called the Healthy Delaware Families Act, it created a statewide insurance program to provide up to 80% of wages for …

Coolest thing manufacturing

Coolest Thing Made in Delaware offers 50 choices for voters

Betsy PriceBusiness, Headlines

A contest meant to highlight the diversity of Delaware’s manufacturing — and raise that business sector’s profile — has opened its first round of voting. Fifty items  — including candles, Dogfish Head beer, doggie doughnuts, eco-plastic tables, and an outer-space habitat — have been entered in The Coolest Thing Made in Delaware contest. It received more than 100 nominations. “This …

chamber

Chamber dinner celebrates jobs, involvement, Incyte’s growth

Betsy PriceBusiness, Headlines

A night to celebrate all things business and jobs started Monday with a call for Delaware to ready itself to become a manufacturing hub. China long has been a magnet for manufacturing, but its decision to limit couples to one child soon will mean there’s not a big enough workforce to man factories, said Mike Quaranta, president of the Delaware …

Coolest thing Delaware State Chamber of Commerce

Think you make the coolest thing in DE? Enter this contest

Betsy PriceBusiness, Headlines

A new state contest seeks the coolest thing manufactured in Delaware. The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce  and the Delaware Manufacturing Association have started the Coolest Thing Made in Delaware contest to highlight Delaware’s vibrant manufacturing industry and promote the sector as a top career path. Manufacturing now employees 28,000 Delawareans. The contest will be structured in a bracket format …