Philadelphia Business Journal articles from October 1988

Philadelphia Business Journal archives from October 1988

Lender-liability suit hits Horizon; threatened second suit could snag Bucks bank in $106 million case.
October 31, 1988... Lender-liability suit hits Horizon A Pittsburgh developer has filed a lender-liability lawsuit against Horizon Financial FA, opening the door to what could become the largest case of its kind in Pennsylvania history. George Mowl, 45,...

Motorworks revs up to roll out franchises. (company profile)
October 31, 1988... Motorworks revs up to roll out franchises After four years and six tours of duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, Navy Machinist Joe Robinson came home to Philadelphia in 1969. With an $80 GI check in his pocket, he decided to...

Quaker Chemical Corp. (proxy report excerpts) (company profile)
October 31, 1988... Quaker Chemical Corp. Quaker Chemical Corp. develops, produces and markets formulated chemical specialty products for applications in the manufacturing, institutional and heavy industrial sectors. The Conshohocken-based company in June 1987...

Ketron gets pact to provide logistics help.
October 31, 1988... Ketron gets pact to provide logistics help Years ago, before the start of a new school year, a school administrator would sit down with a list of the students, a map, pushpins and multicolored yarn. The pins would dot the map where the...

The business of bodywork for the mind. (Gravity Services Inc.) (company profile)
October 24, 1988... The business of bodywork for the mind Life's strains pulling you down? For Robert Toporek, who wrestles with an invisible enemy in gravity, it's not a rhetorical question. Toporek's Gravity Services Inc. puts to use a technique aimed...

Largest newspapers in the Philadelphia area. (directory)
October 24, 1988... LARGEST NEWSPAPERS IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA (Ranked According to Audited Circulation) Name, Publi sher Address ...

Phila. brokerage firm likes to keep it local. (Boenning & Scattergood Inc.) (Section 2) (company profile)
October 24, 1988... Phila. brokerage firm likes to keep it local While some brokerage firms may have marked the first anniversary of Black Monday solemnly, Philadelphia's Boenning & Scattergood Inc. partied. The firm threw a private party recently at...

Cricket Software gets $4 million financing.
October 17, 1988... Cricket Software gets $4 million financing Cricket Software Inc. of Malvern received mezzanine financing, which sources say totaled $4 million, from a Boston venture capital firm recently to fund the company's rapid expansion. The...

Gist-Brocades moves U.S. HQ to Gulph Mills.
October 17, 1988... Gist-Brocades moves U.S. HQ to Gulph Mills Gist-Brocades Food Ingredients Inc., a division of a Dutch biotechnology company, is moving its corporate headquarters to the Philadelphia suburbs. The headquarters, which will employ about...

Largest Philadelphia-area enclosed shopping malls. (directory)
October 17, 1988... LARGEST PHILADELPHIA-AREA ENCLOSED SHOPPING MALLS (Ranked by Gross Leasable Area) Gross Name leasable Address, ...

Checkpoint Systems Inc. (proxy report excerpts) (company profile)
October 17, 1988... Checkpoint Systems Inc. Checkpoint Systems Inc., based in Thorofare, N.J., develops and makes electronic article-surveillance tags, labels and detection equipment, which are used to alert users to the pilferage of items, such as merchandise in...

Memotec raises its holdings of Infotron stock.
October 10, 1988... Memotec raises its holdings of Infortron stock Acquired shares worth $1.6 million A Canadian telecommunications company has raised its stock stake in Infotron Systems Corp. to 9.2 percent and has not abandoned its interest in...

Alco health service considers its options.
October 10, 1988... Alco Health Service considers its options On Oct. 4, McKesson Corp. and Alco Health Service, the country's first and third largest wholesale drug distributors, said they would drop merger plans. The decision came a day after the...

Deb Shops Inc. (proxy report excerpts) (company profile)
October 10, 1988... Deb Shops Inc. Deb Shops Inc., based in Philadelphia, is a retailer of women's junior sportswear which is moderately priced. The company runs nearly 280 shops mainly in enclosed shopping centers in 32 states, from the Eastern Seaboard to as...

Largest privately held firms in the greater Philadelphia area. (directory)
October 10, 1988... LARGEST PRIVATELY HELD FIRMS IN THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA AREA (Ranked by Annual Sales) Part III Name Address, Annual sales Phone ...

Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. (proxy report excerpts) (company profile)
October 3, 1988... Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp., based in Danboro, Pa., makes self-clinching fasteners, alloy inserts for plastics and small electric motors at its facilities in Winston-Salem, N.C., and...

Largest privately held firms in the greater Philadelphia area. (directory)
October 3, 1988... LARGEST PRIVATELY HELD FIRMS IN THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA AREA (Ranked by Annual Sales) Part I Name Address, Annual sales Phone ...