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The Company That Turned the Dinner Lecture Into a Compliance Machine
L&M built a business around the least glamorous parts of pharmaceutical education - contracts, dinner limits, speaker training, audit trails - then made the machinery valuable enough for Fingerpaint Group to buy it.
The Design Agency That Outgrew the Word Design
For forty years, JK kept adding answers to the same question: how do you make people care? In 2026, its name finally caught up with the work.
The Agency That Tried to Own the Whole Problem
Star Group sold a seductive idea: the best agency should solve more than the ad. For 30 years it kept widening the assignment - until the machinery built for growth met a cash crisis it could not out-create.
Coyne PR Put Its People Before Its Pitch Deck
Tom Coyne built an independent agency around a suspiciously simple equation: look after the people, and the pitches will look after themselves. Thirty-five years and more than 1,000 industry honors later, the equation is meeting its strangest test yet - teaching brands to be understood by machines without sounding like them.
The Agency Built Like a Shock Absorber
Most agencies sell attention. CMA Results also runs associations and stages the rooms where industries meet - a deliberately odd mix that has helped it weather nearly four decades of changing media.
The Small Agency That Learned to Make the Invisible Visible
Impact Consulting Enterprises has spent more than three decades translating institutions into language people can use. Its edge is not volume. It is knowing which details an audience will trust.
The Agency That Survived the Press Release
R&J began when a press release still traveled by mail. Forty years and five identities later, the New Jersey agency has learned a useful trick: treat every good story as a system, not a stunt.
The Scientists Had the Breakthrough. TellMed Had to Make Anyone Care.
A New Jersey agency found a business in the awkward distance between a scientific result and a human reaction. Its product is not publicity so much as translation - with enough regulatory discipline to survive the trip.
AKCG Rehearses Your Worst Day
The Glassboro consultancy has spent more than four decades preparing leaders for the phone call they hope never comes. Its real product is not publicity. It is a head start.
The Small-Town Money Machine Hidden in a Clifton Office
Bruno Associates sells something local government rarely has enough of: time to hunt, write, win and manage grants. The payoff shows up as fire gear, safer streets, cleaner buses and projects that might otherwise wait years.
The $1.7 Billion Wealth Firm That Sold the Plumbing - and Kept Its Name
US Financial Services spent three decades building a planning practice around life transitions. Then it made a counterintuitive succession move: join a larger platform, preserve the local brand, and turn the firm itself into a home for other advisers.
The Company That Sells America Its Fun, One Arcade Cabinet at a Time
How a Greenwich Village jukebox route became the quiet backbone of the American arcade - and why the machines eating your quarters probably arrived in a Betson truck.
The Bernardsville Shop That Makes Your Smart Home Actually Work
A musician started a mobile recording business in 2005. Twenty years later, Tim Manning runs one of North Jersey's go-to smart-home shops - and the pitch is still 'it's not about us, it's about you.'
The Jersey Factory That Still Makes Its Own Light
For 50 years Princeton Tec has done the unfashionable thing: keep the whole flashlight - the plastic, the tooling, the assembly - under one New Jersey roof. Here is why a 40-person shop still bets on American-made light.
The Firm That Buys Boring and Sells Big
For 40-plus years, DFW Capital Partners has made its money on the companies nobody puts on a magazine cover - fleet washers, infusion clinics, surgical centers - and turned quiet cash flow into a $2 billion track record.
Ocean Casino Resort
Ocean Casino Resort took Atlantic City's most conspicuous white elephant and turned it into a business built on the one thing rivals cannot copy: the view. Now a fresh owner, another renovation cycle and a wider entertainment portfolio are testing how far that advantage can travel.
K9 Resorts Luxury Pet Hotel
Two brothers turned a teenage dog-walking hustle into a cage-free pet-hotel franchise now worth more than $128 million a year - and the dogs get private suites.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
It started with baking soda in 1846. Nearly two centuries later, the quiet New Jersey company behind Arm & Hammer has turned buying other people's brands into a business worth more than $25 billion.
K. Hovnanian® Homes
For 65 years the Hovnanian family has been putting keys in first-time buyers' hands and building 55-and-up communities where the lawn mows itself. Here is how a New Jersey homebuilder turned patience into a business model.
CORXEL Pharmaceuticals
CORXEL Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. Spun out of RTW Investments in 2019 (formerly JiXing Pharmaceuticals) and dual-based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey and Shanghai, CORXEL is advancing a pipeline led by CX11, a differentiated oral small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist for obesity and type 2 diabetes, alongside JX10 for acute ischemic stroke and JX09 for hypertension. In January 2026 the company raised up to $287 million in Series D1 financing to push these programs through late-stage clinical trials.
Thea Energy
Thea Energy is a New Jersey fusion power company building a simplified, mass-manufacturable stellarator. Instead of the exotic, millimeter-precise 3D magnet coils that defined earlier stellarators, Thea uses arrays of small, planar high-temperature-superconductor electromagnets steered by software - shifting complexity from hardware fabrication to control code. Spun out of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 2022, the company is building Eos, a neutron-source stellarator meant to prove power-plant-relevant performance and generate near-term revenue, ahead of its first commercial plant, Helios.
ANJA
ANJA (ANJA Life LLC) is a minority-owned, state-licensed adult-use cannabis dispensary in Highland Park, New Jersey. Founded by a team of New York- and New Jersey-based entrepreneurs, it opened in January 2024 as the first recreational cannabis dispensary in Highland Park. ANJA pairs a curated retail and delivery experience with an education-first mission - normalizing cannabis through reliable information, community events like ANJA Fest, and partnerships with local New Jersey cultivators. The name is a play on the cannabis synonym 'ganja' and a Sanskrit term meaning 'to manifest.'
BodyBio
BodyBio is a family-owned, third-generation supplement company based in Millville, New Jersey that builds health at the cellular level. Founded in 1998 by biochemist Ed Kane, it grew out of a blood-chemistry diagnostics practice into a maker of phospholipid, electrolyte and short-chain fatty acid products - most notably BodyBio PC (phosphatidylcholine) and e-lyte electrolyte concentrate - manufactured in-house and sold to consumers and to a network of more than 35,000 healthcare practitioners.
Boxcar Transit
Boxcar is a New Jersey-based commuting company that turns the suburban trip into Manhattan into something you can book on a phone. It started in 2017 as an 'Airbnb for parking' - matching commuters with unused driveways and lots near train stations - then added business-class commuter buses with reserved seats, Wi-Fi and curbside drop-off across Midtown. Today it runs seven bus routes, manages over 1,000 daily parking spaces near roughly 50 train stations across NJ, NY, CT and beyond, and has folded in local services like at-home auto detailing.
InSite Health
InSite Health is a New Jersey-based behavioral health company building an integrated mental health and wellness platform for K-12 schools, families, colleges, and organizations. Founded in 2022 by Christopher Gaeta, it pairs a software platform with in-person and virtual clinical services - therapy, outpatient psychiatry, medication management, behavioral threat assessments, and school-based screenings - aiming to replace the patchwork of point solutions districts juggle with one holistic, clinically-run program.
Tidal Metals
Tidal Metals is a Trenton/Hamilton, New Jersey deep-tech company that extracts primary magnesium metal from seawater and desalination brine using nothing but renewable electricity and physical processes - no ore mining, no carbon emissions, and no waste stream. Founded by three plasma-physics PhDs who met at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the company aims to rebuild a domestic U.S. magnesium supply chain currently dominated by China, serving aerospace, defense, and next-generation automotive manufacturing.
Smith
Smith is an Asbury Park-based hospitality group that grew out of a 1990s branding and design studio. Beginning in 2006 with Brickwall Tavern, its partners helped restart a stalled downtown, then built a collective of restaurants and bars - Porta, Pascal & Sabine, Homesick, and Lovesick - that pair scratch kitchens with art-filled rooms. Smith treats hospitality as an instrument of urban renewal, designing, branding, and operating each venue in-house.