Pennsylvania Business News

Employees who pack and ship blood for the American Red Cross in the Philadelphia area went on strike Thursday over wages and working conditions. The American Red Cross Blood Services Penn-Jersey Region obtained an injunction against the Teamsters Union in...

Teen apparel retailer American Eagle Outfitters Inc . said Thursday that sales at stores open at least a year fell 2 percent in November as it experienced "choppy" store traffic through the month. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters , on...

Luxury U.S. homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc ( TOL .N) reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday as revenue slumped and it wrote down the value of its land holdings, sending its shares down 5.6 percent. Toll's fiscal fourth-quarter net loss...

Exelon Power said Wednesday it will shut down four older generating plants near Delaware and Philadelphia in mid-2011, citing high costs and shrinking electricity demand. The cuts would take more than 900 megawatts of electricity off the regional power grid....

Harvard University has announced that Jay Light, the dean of its business school, will step down from the post next June. Light said on Wednesday that the decision to retire was not an easy one, but that the timing felt...

In an unusual coordinated rollout involving many of the biggest competitors, the cable industry is embarking on a project dubbed TV Everywhere aimed at shoring up its franchises in the Internet age. The basic idea behind the initiative is this:...

Social Networking for Authors: Untapped Possibilities For Wealth www.SellATonOfBooks.com By Michael Volkin Volkin Associates ISBN: 9780615299853 127 Pages Michael Volkin “practices what he preaches” in his latest book Social Networking For Authors! I loved this book and his complementary...

Burger King franchisees sued the company this week.It was over the $1 double cheeseburger promotion.The promotion forces restaurant owners to sell the quarter-pound burger with at least a 10 cent loss. The discounted burger went on sale nationwide last month....