When Iwona Evans moved to the United States from Szczecin, Poland, in 2000, she expected to be here for only a year. Twenty-four years, three college degrees, and lots of experience as a finance executive later, she’s running a biotech company that aims to ensure humans, animals, and plants have safe and clean water and helps clients meet stricter environmental …
While Assurance Media will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a ribbon cutting and open house Friday in Milford, many of its employees have been working together for 20 to 35 years. The company installs low-voltage cabling as well as offering security, audiovisual systems and managed service solutions. Assurance sprang out of a Delaware information technology company, Info Systems, which included …
Ashlee Cooper was standing a chair taking photos of balloon decorations when a passerby told her she needed a drone. Now her company, Droneversity, has won $10,000 in the 12th Annual Swim with the Sharks Pitch Competition, held Wednesday at Penn Cinema on the Riverfront. The Emerging Enterprise Center’s competition showcases innovative entrepreneurs and celebrates the spirit of entrepreneurship in …
Some of Incyte’s biopharmaceutical drugs can help skin problems and one seems to be a cure for vitiligo, CEO Hervé Hoppenot said in an update Thursday. He also said the company plans to renovate the two downtown MBNA buildings in a way that will make them unrecognizable to the people familiar with how they look now. And he predicted that …
A Dover company run by an Air Force veteran and dedicated to cleaning communities has opened its first location in the state capital. Two Men and a Junk Truck opened in Dover last week, furthering its mission of junk removal. The company helps with everything from seniors looking to downsize, college students moving out, homeowners decluttering to businesses in need …
A Wilmington call center company that planned to focus on the medical industry while hiring part of its employees from special needs and disadvantaged communities has widened its focus and shifted its name. BlindSight Delaware Enterprise, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social business enterprise founded in 2021, received a $608,000 grant from the Delaware Strategic Fund last year to help it grow.. …
A woman-owned organic dairy headquartered in Newark has been given an $858,400 state grant to help update equipment. Stephanie McVaugh, who in January bought Natural Dairy Products Corp., where she had been working since 1991, will apply that money to $4.3 million in new equipment to support the company’s Shelf-Life Extension Project. The dairy will replace aging, inefficient filling machines, …
Delmarva Corrugated Packaging recently showed off its $90 million high-tech manufacturing facility in Dover that makes state-of-the-art packaging and has created jobs for 160 people. During its “open the box” event, it also announced a new solar panel project and a partnership with Autism Delaware. The 465,000-square-foot, rail-served facility is located on a 37.4-acre site at 1601 POW/MIA Parkway and …
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 …
Incyte will buy two former MBNA buildings in downtown Wilmington, Bracebridge I and Bracebridge III, which will allow the biopharmaceutical company to move about 850 jobs into the city, expand its laboratory space in Alapocas, and move 300 jobs into Delaware. The 517,307 square feet in the Bracebridge buildings will almost double the company’s Delaware footprint. Incyte will focus first …
