Lehigh Valley Business Journal

Lehigh Valley Business is the highly regarded business newspaper for the Lehigh Valley region. It offers extensive information, insightful analysis, and valuable advice tailored to the local business community, surpassing any other media source in the area. As the leading local business publication, it attracts a wide readership that includes entrepreneurs, corporate boards, middle managers, and CEOs. Essentially, the key decision-makers in the business world turn to the Business Journal for their news and insights.

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LVB In the Lead 2025 : Legacy Businesses

1 week ago | lvb.com | Bekah McClelland

The challenges facing those who own businesses are many and varied. Even for such companies that have been around for a long time, there are new obstacles such as modernizing, rising salaries, shrinking workforce, supply issues, and increased competition from other businesses, both local and national. And yet, so many make it work and not only survive, but thrive. Credit their energy, talent, intelligence and perseverance – the qualities shared by most successful business leaders.
Alvin H. Butz, Inc.

1 week ago | lvb.com | Bekah McClelland

Founded by Alvin Butz, Alvin H. Butz, Inc. aims to deliver high-quality projects with integrity and reliability as part of the Butz Family of Companies. The company is a six-generation family business driven by the mission to prioritize quality, integrity, and continuous improvement. Greg L. Butz serves as president and CEO. “Our collaborative approach ensures projects meet client needs through open communication and teamwork,” the company stated.
Barry Isett & Associates, Inc.

1 week ago | lvb.com | Bekah McClelland

Barry Isett & Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned firm that offers comprehensive engineering and consulting services. In 1977, Barry Isett opened a private practice leveraging his 13 years of design experience in architectural and engineering firms. By 1978, the firm became a full-time business with Isett and four other employees, headquartered in Trexlertown. In 2024, Andrew Lawler became COO with a succession plan in place for him to succeed president and CEO Kevin Campbell.
B. Braun Medical Inc.

1 week ago | lvb.com | Bekah McClelland

Bethlehem-based B. Braun Medical Inc. specializes in infusion therapy and pain management. According to Lehigh Valley Economic Development, B. Braun Medical Inc. has operated in the Lehigh Valley since 1979. B. Braun Medical is part of the B. Braun Group of Companies in the United States, which includes B. Braun Interventional Systems, Aesculap and CAPS. Globally, the company employs more than 64,000 employees in 64 countries. “B.
Albarell Electric Inc.

1 week ago | lvb.com | Bekah McClelland

Albarell Electric was founded in 1937 by Michael L. Albarell. In its early days, Albarell Electric Inc. served residential and light commercial customers. Michael M. Albarell succeeded his father in the early 1980s. During his tenure, Albarell grew the company and its physical operation to its current location in Bethlehem, as well as opening a second branch in Pottsville. In 2008, company leadership transitioned to its new management team, Michael Conkey & Curt Hoyak.
American Bank in Allentown

1 week ago | lvb.com | Bekah McClelland

In 1997, Fred and Mark Jaindl founded one of the country’s first internet banks. Now headquartered in Allentown, American Bank has served customers in the Lehigh Valley for 28 years, offering a full selection of deposit and loan products. Mark Jaindl serves as chairman and CEO of the company, overseeing its 67 employees.
Shift4 extending offer for Swiss company

1 week ago | lvb.com | Stacy Wescoe

Center Valley-based Shift4 Payments, Inc. is extending its previously announced all-cash tender offer through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, GT Holding 1 GmbH, a Swiss limited liability company, to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Global Blue Group Holding AG. The transaction is expected to close by the third quarter of calendar year 2025, as previously announced. Global Blue is a Switzerland-based company that offers tourism shopping tax refunds.
LVIA ranked second in Newsweek’s Best Small Airports list

1 week ago | lvb.com | Stacy Wescoe

For a second consecutive year, Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) has been ranked among the “Best Small Airports” by Newsweek Readers’ Choice Awards. It came in as number two out of 16 airports that were named as finalists, right behind Huntsville International Airport in Huntsville, Alabama. The airport was also up against airports including Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming and Bangor International Airport in Maine.
Is your business ready for Trump Tariffs?

1 week ago | lvb.com | Bekah McClelland

Tariffs are simply a tax on imported products and services. Until very recently, little conversation has been spent on them and businesses just viewed and dealt with tariffs as a “fact of life” or a cost of doing business. Lately, discussion of tariffs (and the economy in general) seems to center around talk of “uncertainty” and “volatility.” The current U.S. Administration is threatening (and imposing) significantly higher tariffs than any of us can remember.
Up to 350 Lehigh Valley Mack workers face layoffs

1 week ago | lvb.com | Stacy Wescoe

As many as 350 Mack Truck workers may lose their jobs at the company’s Macungie facility in what State Rep. Josh Siegel, D-Lehigh, is blaming on the economic instability caused by ever-changing tariff policies. In a release, Siegel said that Mack Trucks is laying off between 250 and 350 workers at its Macungie facility and called it a devastating blow to Lehigh Valley workers. “Once again, American workers are being sacrificed at the altar of political theater.