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Ben Ames

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
15
Latest publication
Sep 28, 2026
Outlet visibility, for DC Velocity
Top 5M sites
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Ben Ames

    Trade group criticizes California laws regulating cold chain warehouses (opens the original)

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    Legislation increases accountability by industry, following eight-day fire in June of a 500,000-square foot Lineage Logistics facility in Los Angeles. Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for trade journals including Cahners’ Design News and Modern Materials Handling magazines, and other magazines with PennWell and IDG. A native New Yorker

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ben Ames

    Private equity buyers whet their appetite for logistics real estate (opens the original)

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    EQT buys 5.2 million square feet of warehouses in Southern California, on same day that Link Logistics buys nearly 700,000 square feet in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta. Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for trade journals including Cahners’ Design News and Modern Materials Handling magazines, and other magazines with PennWell and IDG. A

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ben Ames

    Your artificial intelligence is creating real-world problems (opens the original)

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    If you want to hire workers from Generation Z to replace the retiring Boomers, you'd better curb the impulse to sprinkle AI fairy dust over every corporate function. Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for trade journals including Cahners’ Design News and Modern Materials Handling magazines, and other magazines with PennWell and IDG. A na

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Ben Ames

    Vecna Robotics raises $31 million as demand soars for U.S.-built robots (opens the original)

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    Funds will drive expansion as the Massachusetts company leverages its “strategic role in North American robotics” in the wake of an FCC policy banning the import of many foreign-made robots. Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for trade journals including Cahners’ Design News and Modern Materials Handling magazines, and other magazines wi

  5. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Ben Ames

    Fortna to be sold from one private equity firm to another (opens the original)

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    Systems integrator was purchased in 2019 by Thomas H. Lee, merged with MHS Global in 2019, and will now be acquired by Ares Management. Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for trade journals including Cahners’ Design News and Modern Materials Handling magazines, and other magazines with PennWell and IDG. A native New Yorker, Ames went to

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