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New England Confectionery Co. Sells For $18.8M At Auction

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Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We The candies are made in a suburb of Boston, where the company has a little more than 200 employees. Following an auction in a U.S. bankruptcy court, Massachusetts’ New England Confectionery Co.

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CVS Health Unveils Atlanta HealthHUBs; Target’s Digital Sales Rise Despite Slow Growth

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The stores are part of the retailer’s strategy to have up to 1,500 locations operating throughout the country by the conclusion of next year. According to previous reports, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020.

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Tim Hortons And The Innovative Donut

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Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. We felt it was going to cause a lot of chaos from the operations side.”. There was variety of course- but within limits. Moving To Mobile Payments .

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Why Google Ditched Perishables

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In addition to adding the service to those seven markets, Google will also be enhancing services currently on offer in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Michigan, Wyoming, Iowa, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Ohio. First on the list is apparently getting the cooperative deal it’s worked out with Target in other U.S.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

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New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B. ServiceTitan.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). The restaurant has 12 current locations, in New York, LA, Providence, Boston, and most recently London, and another 20 are planned. In Boston, Oleana founder Ana Sortun opened the lunch and takeout venue Sofra. table of contents. Automatic food: Cafe X.

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OpenGov’s Growth Partly Thanks To President Trump

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The city of Boston is one of the largest municipalities to use OpenGov’s software, which created Analyze Boston thanks to OpenGov. Analyze Boston is an open data portal that lets the city publish open data sets and make them available to citizens. and the state of Ohio. Kenton County, Ken.

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