Werner Werner & Associates, a new financial advisory firm, hosted a grand opening July 26 at 625 Interchange Road in Lehighton.

A community bank led by a former executive from National Penn Bank has expanded into the Upper Montgomery County market by opening a Pottstown branch today.

A Lower Nazareth Township company that makes equipment for the storage industry is moving to larger quarters and adding employees thanks to a financing package arranged by Lehigh Financial Group of Allentown.

Industry leaders, professors, students and professionals will explore emerging technologies in alternative energy and discuss ways to incorporate them into their business.

A recent report by Creditsafe USA Inc., a South Whitehall Township-based business intelligence supplier, shows troubling economic figures.

All former National Penn Bank branches in the Greater Lehigh Valley now are branches of BB&T after what the bank’s regional president is calling a fairly seamless transition.

First Niagara bank, which has 46 branches in the Greater Lehigh Valley, will become part of Cleveland-based KeyCorp now that the Federal Reserve Bank approved the acquisition Tuesday.

A financial services company looking to expand farther north into the Lehigh Valley has now also started to grow south and east. Souderton-based Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania, parent company of Univest Bank and Trust Co., has completed its acquisition of Fox Chase Bancorp Inc. of Hatboro.

About two dozen students at Muhlenberg College spend much of their free time figuring out how to help the school increase its endowment.

Two Lehigh Valley manufacturers will be expanding with the help of low interest loans from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority.