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Byline: Hugh R. Morley Oct. 16--New Jersey awarded tax breaks totaling $29.6 million on Thursday, aimed at preventing two North Jersey companies from leaving the state with 445 jobs. The [...]

Byline: Richard Newman Dec. 17--The regulatory issues that have held up M&T Bank's acquisition of Hudson City Bancorp for more than two years have, at least temporarily, benefited scores of [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Nov. 13--The decision by two Paramus malls to open on Thanksgiving for the first time is another sign of a new holiday tradition: retailers fighting for the [...]

Byline: Hugh R. Morley Jan. 21--UPS has abandoned its plan to move more than 900 employees from its Paramus technology campus to Woodland Park, as the package delivery giant instead [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Dec. 09--Westfield Garden State Plaza's 55,000-square-foot addition, set to open in March, will include a mix of European retailers who are opening their first U.S. mall stores, [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Feb. 15--Paramus Park mall wants to get into the movie business. The mall is asking to be allowed to build a 12-screen, 2,234-seat movie theater as part [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Feb. 09--Mall closing update: The Shops at Riverside closed at 5 p.m. The rest of the malls in North Jersey closed at 6 p.m. Earlier today: Stores [...]

Byline: Bill Ervolino Jan. 26--For me, the story of a certain mural in Paramus actually begins on Long Island, circa 1971, when I turned 16 and got a part-time job [...]

Byline: Linda Moss Jan. 03----Mycell Technologies is betting on a new line of palatable omega-3 products. A Paramus company is doing its best to make heart-healthy omega-3, which in capsule [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Nov. 20----Mega-size PGA Tour Superstore blends store with services. At a time when many national retailers are shrinking their stores, the PGA Tour Superstore chain believes in [...]

Byline: Patricia Alex Oct. 07--Things are taking shape in a former graphics company off Route 17 in Paramus, where 18 adults with developmental disabilities practice life skills such as answering [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Sept. 29--Check out photos of the store here. Uniqlo wanted to open its flagship mall store with a bang, and the retailer succeeded, as more than 800 [...]

Byline: Patricia Alex Sept. 22--Bergen Community College on Friday opened its new aviation education center -- complete with state-of-the-art flight simulators and a wind tunnel -- and is welcoming students [...]

May 19----The high-end brand will occupy the former Levitz site on Route 4. The Stickley furniture company, known for the Arts and Crafts and Mission designs of founder Gustav Stickley, [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon April 06--* Plus-size chain combines its men's wear stores. The big and tall men's wear shopper can be a tough customer to figure out. But the Casual [...]

Byline: Kathleen Lynn Aug. 06--PARAMUS -- Health food company Smart Balance Inc. has bought a Quebec gluten-free food company for $66.3 million. The Quebec company, Importations DE-RO-MA, owns the Glutino [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon June 09--An Illinois-based art supplies retailer has opened its first New Jersey store, in Paramus, and is hoping its 100-year-old reputation as a mail-order company, as well [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon May 06--Susan Low Sauer of Wyckoff, who took over two Paramus shopping centers after the death of her developer husband, and who learned late in life that [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Dec. 21--Venture capital investor Charlie Federman took his daughters to a Paramus mall one day and came home with an idea for an Internet business with the [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon May 29--In a sign that mall leasing activity in North Jersey is picking up momentum, Westfield Garden State Plaza opened five new stores this week, four of [...]

Byline: Richard Newman May 28--Texas banker, real estate investor and high-rolling poker player Andy Beal recently expanded his Beal Bank branch network into North Jersey to add to a $2.35 [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Mar. 12--BCBGeneration -- the lower-priced, more youthful version of designer Max Azria's BCBG label -- opened its first retail store in New Jersey on Thursday afternoon at [...]

Byline: Prashant Gopal Jul. 21--H. Lundbeck A/S, Denmark's second largest pharmaceutical company, is moving its U.S. headquarters from Manhattan to Paramus, where it already has a research office, company officials [...]