Greater Berks Development Fund

The Greater Berks Development Fund, an affiliate of the Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corp., was recently awarded a $250,000 Pennsylvania Community Development Bank investment for minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, disabled-owned and LGBT-owned businesses to grow. The loans come from the Diverse Business Financing Initiative, which was recently approved by the state Department of Community …

In 1991, Appeeling Fruit, Inc. was solely a processor of fresh bakery apples with no extended shelf life. The company started selling to bakeries throughout the northeast United States and with the help of a small group of employees, and family members they built a sustainable business supplying those bakeries. After eight successful years providing bakery slices, …