TRANSIT Cumberland commissioners reinforce their push for regional transit. Page 3 MARCH 31, 2017 • Vol. 33 • No. 14 • $2 www.CPBJ.com FOOD BUSINESS A JUMP INTO JUICE By Lenay Ruhl [email protected] Infatuated with the food culture in his native Lancaster County, Cullen Farrell felt more could be done to pay homage to the vegetable side of the county’s agriculture, instead of the usual focus on food from cows, pigs and other livestock. He asked himself, “What’s the most of this place that I can put into something?” The answer came in a bottle. A few years ago Farrell quit his job as a commodity trader for a Chicago company to make organic, cold-pressed juice. please see JUICE, page 11 Kyle Ober, left, and Cullen Farrell are founders of ríjuice, a cold-pressed juice company with a production facility at Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative in East Hempfield Township. PHOTO/AMY SPANGLER HEALTH CARE Despite federal impasse, costs remain target By Lenay Ruhl designed to cut the state’s Medicaid spend- which has seen positive results, according to $25.9 billion. Medicaid spending has [email protected] ing while increasing enrollment. to MedExpert. been growing steadily for the past 10 years, Martin is looking for help from health Medicaid blends federal and state fund- according to the state’s Department of Hu- No matter what the federal government care management firm MedExpert. ing to insure children, poor adults and man Services. does about health care, Pennsylvania should Based in California, MedExpert uses others. In fiscal year 2015-16, the federal More than half of all health care services look for ways to spend less on Medicaid, ac- technology to collect data and monitor government spent about $15.3 billion on and procedures are inappropriate, unnec- cording to Sen. Scott Martin (R-Lancaster), patients to improve care. It is currently Medicaid in Pennsylvania, while the state who is preparing to introduce legislation working with Alaska’s Medicaid program, spent about $10.6 billion, bringing the total please see ACA, page 11 FEATURES INDEX INSIDE BUSINESS High costs, changing Awards . 19 Business Record . 19 guidelines open door for Inside Business . 13 private flood insurers. Lists & Leads . 17 Newsmakers . 18 Page 13 Off The Clock . 27 On The Move . 18 Opinion . 10 Trending . 25 2 www.CPBJ.com • Central Penn Business Journal • 717-236-4300 MARCH 31, 2017 NEWS IN BRIEF Your Medicare plan is out there. Harrisburg company in Centre County, near State College, while Let’s find it together. Hauck was in Lancaster County. The acquisi- making beer documentary tions added a Wormleysburg office and a GK Visual, a photography and video pro- State College-area office to ParenteBeard, duction company known for its “Brewed in which now has six locations in Lancaster, the Burg” film in 2015, has launched a new York, Dauphin, Centre and Berks counties. “Poured in PA” film project that will Brew Crumberland’s Best highlight the beer industry across adding second location Pennsylvania. The owners of Brew Crumberland’s Best Principal filming will on Bridge Street in New Cumberland plan begin later this month and continue through to open a second location by early or mid- the fall, said Nate Kresge, the company’s April at 4902 Louise Drive in the Rossmoyne executive producer and co-owner. The film- Business Plaza in Lower Allen Township, makers will look to interview everyone from the former site of a Cuppa coffee shop. Medicare Made Simple brewers and beer drinkers to hop growers, Co-owner Wade Weiser, who opened Brew malters and bar owners. The company’s Cumberland in 2014 with his sister, Laurel, Take the confusion out of Medicare when you start with goal is to have the film ready for release by a trained pastry chef who worked at The Medicareful’s easy-to-use online plan finder. April 2018. GK has launched a crowdfunding Hotel Hershey and Hilton Harrisburg, said campaign through Indiegogo to support the the new Rossmoyne location will be compa- Compare plans on your own or connect with a local, venture. rable to the New Cumberland location. The independent agent who will help you answer: shop’s niche is homemade food, including • What is the plan’s premium? • Are your doctors and hospitals in the network? Harrisburg chamber VP pastries and other sweets, as well as special- ty drinks. Plus, it has a drive-thru to capture • What are the copays and deductibles? • What’s the plan’s CMS star rating? leaving in April work traffic. The Rossmoyne location will Patricia Bucek has announced she will be mirror that menu and also have the drive- Visit Medicareful.com today leaving her position as vice president of the thru to serve a daytime office crowd. Harrisburg Regional Chamber and Capital Region Economic Development Corp., in Medicareful.com | 2600 Commerce Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17110 | 844-762-2733 Veteran leader retiring ©2017, Ritter Insurance Marketing LLC. All rights reserved. early April for a nonprofit opportunity in her hometown of Pittsburgh. Bucek’s new gig at Carlisle’s Safe Harbour will be national director of marketing and Wendell Hollinger, president and CEO of talent attraction for Vibrant Pittsburgh, a Safe Harbour Inc. for 22 years, said he will nonprofit economic development organiza- retire from the organiza- tion established in 2010. It partners with tion this August, Safe companies and community groups to help Harbour officials recruit talent to Pittsburgh to fill jobs. The announced. The nonprofit chamber is currently taking applications to provides housing for the fill Bucek’s position. homeless and potentially homeless. In his time at ParenteBeard adds the helm for Safe Harbour, Hollinger Hollinger led a renovation two advisory firms of its Carlisle facilities and expanded its ParenteBeard Wealth Management has efforts to garner private help by creating a bought two small investment advisory community relations and development posi- firms. The firm, headquartered in East tion, a news release said. Hollinger said in a From the New York Tenors, Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, said statement that he has “reached the time in known to many as the 9/11 it recently bought SFC Asset Management my career where I am ready to step away N.Y.P.D. Singing Policeman. Inc. and Hauck Wealth Management. The from the day-to-day efforts and concen- acquisitions are ParenteBeard Wealth’s first trate on spending time with my wife, my as a standalone company. SFC was based family, my friends and my motorcycle.” Grain + Verse Bottlehouse . .3 . Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board . 3. COMPANIES INDEX Gunn Mowery . 13 Pennsylvania Restaurant Groups receiving significant mention Holy Hound Taproom . 3. and Lodging Association . 3 . in this paper and pages on which Hospital and Healthsystem Pizza Boy Brewing Co. 3. stories begin: Association of Pennsylvania . 1 rabbittransit . 3. Jeremy Sauvé Consulting Group . .14 . Red Rose Transit Authority . .3 . Join the Al’s of Hampden . .3 . McNees, Wallace & Nurick LLC . .1 ríjuice . 1 Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. 14. Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-Op . 1 Rillo’s . 3. conversation. Capital Area Transit . 3. Newport Beverage . 3. Stauffers of Kissel Hill . 1 Central Penn Business PennDOT . 3. Sheetz . .3 . Group on Health . .1 Pennsylvania Food The Coup Agency . 13 Cork and Fork Osteria . 3. Merchants Association . .3 . The Garlic Poet . 3. F.X. O’Brien Associates LLC . .3 . Pennsylvania Department Vrai . .3 . www.CPBJ.com Giant Food Stores . 3 . of Insurance . .13 York Traditions Bank . .4 CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS The Central Penn Business Journal will correct or clarify mistakes made in the publication. If you have a question, please call the editorial department at 717-236-4300. MARCH 31, 2017 717-236-4300 • Central Penn Business Journal • www.CPBJ.com 3 RETAIL from various trade groups representing res- taurants and retailers, as well as lawmakers and legal experts, about what tweaks could be coming next or are needed to improve the system. Takeout sales of hard liquor, similar to wine-to-go changes last year in supermar- kets and convenience-store chains, has al- ready been proposed. And beer distributors could get permission to sell wine. There is chatter, too, about streamlining the transaction process in supermarkets and convenience stores by allowing beer and wine to be sold at the same registers as food. Also on the table is creation of a new class of liquor license for large retailers and allowing restaurant liquor licenses to move across county lines to help control costs for restaurateurs and meet demand in growing areas. Distributors don’t really have a choice but to take what new piece of business the state gives them, Pluta said. If distributors don’t adapt, growing competition from su- permarkets and convenience-store chains, Rich Pluta owns Newport Beverage in Perry County. After the passage of Act 166, he converted a wall of shelving that once held cases of beer which are stockpiling high-priced restau- into a display of six-packs. PHOTO/AMY SPANGLER rant liquor licenses, will hurt them. Pluta, who supports liquor privatiza- tory and sell higher-priced beers that may tion, said that as larger food retailers add have sat longer in the past because of pack- more liquor licenses, it will put greater aging restrictions, Pluta also realizes it will pricing pressure on those with little else to Change on tap probably be a few years before he recoups sell besides beer. That could knock some recent investments made at his store — from traditional beer sellers in Pennsylvania out Traditional beer tors to sell beer in smaller quantities. new shelving to cooler changes — to accom- of business. “It’s a different world,” said Pluta, the modate the new options.