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Blue Wolf Capital Purchases Colson Group Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC, a New York-based private equity firm, has acquired Colson Group, a providor of caster and wheel product services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “With its global scale and long-standing roster of blue-chip customers, Colson is the global leader in the highly stable and growing casters and wheels market. In addition, Colson’s large domestic manufacturing footprint combined with its impressive product port...

PayScale and Payfactors combine into 600-person company, eyeing big market for compensation data March 2, 2021 at 10:56 am PayScale CEO Scott Torrey. (PayScale Photo) Seattle-based compensation data and technology company PayScale is merging with Payfactors, a compensation data management company based in the Boston area, joining forces in a new effort to capitalize on growing demand from corporate leaders grappling with issues of employee pay equity and remote work. “They’ve been a great c...

Not surprisingly, the rankings include a number of roles that filled unprecedented health care, transportation, tech and essential service needs during months of illness and social distancing. The fastest-growing job in 2020 was health screeners, a group of workers that grew by 136% compared with 2019, as state and local governments, health-care facilities and places of business implemented new measures to help protect against the spread of the virus. The share of personal shoppers this year ju...