Packing his bags. Making more bags. Staying put.
From the Business Today section of today's Buffalo News:
- KeyBank’s WNY chief moving to Maine - Jonathan D. Epstein/The Buffalo News
KeyBank’s Western New York district president is leaving to take a higher position as president of the bank’s operations in the State of Maine.
Sterling Kozlowski, who has been head of the bank’s Buffalo region since 2006 but has been in the area for more than a decade, will become Maine District president for KeyBank as of next Tuesday.
- ECIDA approves expansion financing - Jonathan D. Epstein/The Buffalo News
The Erie County Industrial Development Agency on Monday approved $2.7 million in bond financing to help Flexo Transparent expand its custom-printed poly and plastic bag-making operation in Buffalo.
- Battistoni sold to firm that will keep it here - Samantha Maziarz Christmann/The Buffalo News
Battistoni Italian Specialty Meats, a food company born in Buffalo in 1931, has changed hands again, but with an assurance that it will stay local.
Battistoni, which was acquired by Rich Products Corp. in 2005, has been sold to Providential Foods. That company, owned by East Aurora native Eric Naber, will keep operations in Buffalo with no changes to operations or the Dingens Street facility’s 30 workers.
- Local partners buy natural gas unit - David Robinson/The Buffalo News
Constellation Energy Group has sold the New York and Pennsylvania portions of its NewEnergy Gas Division to a partnership between local energy entrepreneurs Gary Marchiori and Timothy Wright and the energy marketing business of South Jersey Industries.
EnergyMark LLC, the new name of the seven-employee business, will still be based at 300 Corporate Parkway, Amherst, Marchiori said. The energy services firm provides natural gas services to several hundred local companies, including the Hamburg and Depew village natural gas utilities.
-- George Pyle/The Buffalo News
