August 3, 2011 (1:03 am EST)
Filed under: Business by News Staff
FRAMINGHAM, MA - Most people who have lived in Framingham for more than 30 or 40 years refer to the ice cream production facility on Old Connecticut Path, (across from the top of Speen Street), simply as "Sealtest" -- even though it hasn't produced Sealtest ice-cream for many years.
In-fact, no ice-cream at all has been made at the Framingham plant since April 31, 2011. That's when Unilever, the multi-national consumer product manufacturing conglomerate which owns the Sealtest, Breyer's and Good Humor ice-cream brands finally shut down the factory.
It wasn't a sudden closing, for a couple years Unilever had been warning the last 200 or so employees they would be shifting production to other facilities where utilities, taxes and wages would cost the company less.
After hearing the final days for the plant were numbered, in March (2011), Michael Montville who grew up in Bellingham, (and now lives in Danielson CT), made ...[read more]
August 1, 2011 (8:59 pm EST)
Filed under: Business by Randy Harris
The Princeton Review, Inc, 111 Speen Street, Suite 550, Framingham, MA 01701
FRAMINGHAM, MA - The Princeton Review, Inc., (NASDAQ:REVU), is a Framingham, MA based company which markets college preparatory materials, (training test for PSAT, SAT, LSAT and other tests), and offers online and in-person courses, tutoring, software, books and related products and services in 41 states in the USA and in twenty other countries.
The company has recently come under fire and faces an impending class action lawsuit by investors.
On July 29, 2011, Attorney Theodore M. Hess-Mahan of ...[read more]
FRAMINGHAM, MA - With no final vote having taken place, and no actual legislation enacted, some camps are claiming victory, some decrying losses and most just knocking the process of raising the nation's debt ceiling so the country can continue to pay its bills.
President Obama released a 2 minute, 20 second YouTube video with his thoughts on the agreement the two major political parties have made.
There is still a slight chance that a Congressman or State Representative, possibly from the Tea Party -- or even a dissenting ...[read more]