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 The sun rises over the Downtown Pittsburgh skyline.

In The Lead: An introduction to the Post-Gazette's special section

4 years ago

What is propelling the Pittsburgh region into the future is an understanding that resting on past successes is a path to obsolescence.



 Heather Doyle-Conley is manager of the Peoples Natural Gas call center of the North Shore. The company is rolling out a system that utilizes a customer service app for smart phones.

In The Lead: Pittsburgh rediscovers the payoff in taking risks

4 years ago

If you’re looking for a list ranking Pittsburgh as one of the top cities for startups, you likely won’t have long to wait.



 The view looking north from the top windows of the Masonic Hall in Carnegie.

In The Lead: Carnegie / The comeback continues

4 years ago

The borough is rebounding from a devastating flood and an economic downturn.



 The FNB building at the corner of Morgan and W. Main streets in Uniontown.

In The Lead: Uniontown / Fayette County business leaders lament area's image problem

4 years ago

Residents see little to praise in an area rich in history and natural beauty



 Florri Ladov from Reading is Fundamental assists kindergarten students from the Helen S. Faison Arts Academy leaving the RIF Storymobile van after a program earlier this year.

In The Lead: Reading is Fundamental rebounds

4 years ago

In 2009, Reading is Fundamental was close to closing. A for-profit management style attracted funding and expand programs.



 Matthews International CEO Joseph Bartolacci made a “strategic decision” to acquire Schawk Inc. for $600 million last year.

In The Lead: Matthews International grows with merger

4 years ago

Seizing the opportunity to buy Schawk Inc. for $600 million and bring the businesses together made Matthews International twice the size.



 Clearview Federal Credit Union CEO Mark Brennan at its office in Moon.

In The Lead: Former US Airways credit union reinvents itself for different future

4 years ago

Facing a crossroads in 2004, the US Airways Federal Credit Union decided to change its name to Clearview and has enjoyed success since.



 Devenee Schumacher, a founder and director of marketing for SDC Nutrition, and CFO Ray Boyer at the company’s headquarters and warehouse facility in Coraopolis. SDC, a health supplement manufacturing company, specializes in powdered sports nutrition products.

In The Lead: Findlay firm SDC Nutrition goes global with nutrition supplements

4 years ago

Today, SDC Nutrition employs close to 40 people and recently moved into a new 60,000-square-foot facility.



 Anne Conrad of Murrysville does a final test on the G1 Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) in the final assembly area. MSA’s G1, the redesign of respirators made for firefighters, was the largest R&D effort in the company’s 101-year history.

In The Lead: Redesigned respirator is breath of fresh air for MSA Safety

4 years ago

MSA invested $40 million into a five-year initiative that became the biggest engineering project in the 101-year-old company's history.



 From left, Edward Marc Brands co-CEOs Dana Edwards Manatos and Chris Edwards, employee Jackie Tomasic, COO Mark Edwards and employee Leigh Hartmann work on the inaugural run of the assembly line of their new Snappers factory in Lawrenceville. They were working on a version of the snack combining pretzels, peanut butter and chocolate.

In The Lead: Small candy-maker Edward Marc Chocolatier fulfills Costco's wishes in a snap

4 years ago

Edward Marc Chocolatier created a milk chocolate/pretzel/caramel confection in resealable bags that could easily be shared by a group.



 Industrial Scientific Corp. president and CEO Justin McElhattan at the entrance of the company’s offices in RIDC West Park. Industrial Scientific, a maker of gas detection equipment, has developed a software segment that focuses on inspections and predictive analysis of hazardous conditions such as in coal mines. The analysis products are being sold internationally and are helping fuel the family-owned company’s rapid growth.

In The Lead: Family's bold gamble on high-tech system gives Industrial Scientific bright future

4 years ago

Industrial Scientific saw opportunity to reduce job hazards by providing technology-based safety solutions.



 Helen Volkov Behn, right, teamed with seamstress Jennifer Rocket to create the Revive Tank, a zip-up garment with pockets for hot or cold packs for back pain, that can be worn under clothing.

In The Lead: Back pain frustration leads to new business

4 years ago

Helen Volkov Behn develops the Revive Tank ice pack product, a zip-up garment with pockets for hot or cold packs.



 FreshTemp founder and CEO Jeff Rieger found a niche within the food delivery industry that helped him build his East Liberty business.

In The Lead: TagSense technology aims to reduce spoilage when shipping foods and medicines

4 years ago

FreshTemp has created a wireless temperature monitoring system that sends temperature readings to an online dashboard with real-time data.



 HalenHardy founder Donny Beaver displays the MudFlinger, a device that helps scrape dirt from work boots.

In The Lead: Inventor Donny Beaver leans on other people's ideas for HalenHardy

4 years ago

HalenHardy, an oil and gas industry supplier, is building a product portfolio partly based on successful finds from other inventors.



 Emily A. Collins, executive director and managing attorney at Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, center, with staff members, from left, Megan Lovett, Kate Donatelli, Ryan Hamilton, Sara Winner and Oday Salim outside the company’s Lawrenceville offices.

In The Lead: Aiming to give clients, lawyers a Fair Shake

4 years ago

Fair Shake is a unique combination of a post-graduate legal residency program and an incubator for future firms.



 Nancy Bunt and Mallory Swartz of the Fred Rogers Co. with characters from the new cartoon series Peg + Cat, which introduces the concepts of math and problem solving to young viewers.

In The Lead: Fred Rogers' company carries on namesake's passion

4 years ago

Formerly known as Family Communications, the nonprofit was renamed the Fred Rogers Co. following the founder’s death in 2003.



 Carnegie Mellon University professor Paul Scerri, right, watches as grad student Alex Long, center, packs up one of the remote-controlled boats used to monitor water quality. At left is graduate student Jason Blum.

In The Lead: Robotic fleet to monitor bodies of water just needs a regulatory shift

4 years ago

Government rules require humans to physically collect data.



In The Lead: Innovation and corporate cash hordes can be strange bedfellows

4 years ago

Many businesses have been more interested in strengthening their balance sheets instead of taking on more debt to fund investments.



 Nina Wolf and Jason Barkley, co-owners of Animal Nature, a natural foods pet store in Regent Square, show off some of their pets.

Health food store for pets in Regent Square celebrates its anniversary

4 years ago

Animal Nature is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month.



 Bill Powers is president and CEO of PixController, the company behind the live streaming images of the bald eagle nest in Pittsburgh’s Hays neighborhood.

Eagles helped open oil and gas market to PixController technology

4 years ago

Murrysville company behind the bald eagle wildlife camera wins grant to develop technology for the shale gas industry.



 The Pittsburgh Party Pedaler, a “bicycle bar,” heads out for a bachelorette party tour of the North Side. The Party Pedaler can be booked for tours Downtown, on the North Shore and in the Strip District.

Pittsburgh Party Pedaler lets the good times roll

4 years ago

The local tour business uses a unique mode of transportation -- a bicycle built for 16 whose riders supply the power.



 Barber Jerry Cammuso cuts the hair of Stephen DeLong at Cammuso’s Salon in the Holiday Park Shopping Center in Plum.

Graying Pittsburgh market still finds a barber with Cammuso's Hair Salon

4 years ago

Cammuso's Hair Salon has signed on with about two dozen area nursing homes as clients.



 Jay Fanelli, 35, of Collier, one of the founders of Cotton Bureau, helps to pack a shipment of T-shirts from the company’s Strip District location.

Strip District company pushes back against 'terrible T-shirts' of the world

4 years ago

Cotton Bureau, whose offices are in The Strip, has been designated "the Internet's coolest T-shirt store."



 Street scene on Broadway in Beechview.

Beechview: Proponents hope neighborhood is finally turning a corner

4 years ago

In The Lead: The city community has seen significant improvement in the past several years.



 Jim Richter, executive director of the Hazelwood Initiative, and Rev. Leslie Boone, co-founder of Fishes and Loaves Cooperative Ministries, at the display of art outside the Initiative’s Second Avenue offices.

Hazelwood: Almono gives neighborhood a shot at recovery

4 years ago

Hope springs up due to a redevelopment at the LTV coke works site.



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