Biz Buzz

Long Island

Nassau plaza lining up tenants

The Gallery at Westbury Plaza, a new Garden City shopping center to be completed later this year, has added a Bloomingdale's Outlet store to its list of well-known tenants. Bloomingdale's Outlet store will join Nordstrom Rack and Saks Off Fifth, both of which are moving from the nearby Mall at the Source. The Gallery at Westbury Plaza, a 330,000-square-foot retail, banking and restaurant center constructed by Equity One Inc., already has Danny Meyer's Shake Shack, Trader Joe's and the Container Store on its tenant roster. Bloomingdale's Outlet is a relatively new concept launched by parent company Macy's Inc. in the fall of 2010. The Westbury location is one of five new stores of this type scheduled to open in 2012. The stores will be about 25,000 square feet in size and employ about 35 associates, Macy's Inc. said. -- Keiko Morris

CPI lands $12.7M Boeing order

Edgewood-based CPI Aerostructures Inc. has received its first new purchase order of the year: a $12.7-million deal from Boeing's defense, space and security division. CPI will provide wing parts for the A-10 Thunderbolt -- also known as the Warthog -- a combat support aircraft first produced in 1972 and deployed in both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The order is linked to a previously announced long-term contract to support Boeing's A-10 wing replacement program. The entire contract is worth up to $84 million. In its announcement yesterday, CPI Aero also said new business awards for 2011 totaled $83.6 million, compared to $61.7 million the previous year. CPI Aero last month moved into a new space in Edgewood; it's triple the size of its previous location across the street. -- Joseph Mallia

Nation

Airfare hikes after new rules

Within days of new European rules on carbon emissions produced by passenger jets, two major airlines say they will raise fares. Delta Air Lines Inc. began adding $6 per round trip to the price of tickets sold in the United States for travel to Europe. And Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it will raise prices but not right away. Under European regulations that took effect this week, airlines flying in and out of Europe must get certificates to pay for the carbon dioxide emissions produced by their flights. They will get free credits to cover most flights this year but must buy or trade for credits to cover the rest. -- AP

WSJ-Europe cleared of charge

There is no clear evidence that The Wall Street Journal's European edition fudged its circulation figures in a series of elaborate deals involving its subscribers, Britain's newspaper circulation watchdog said yesterday. The Audit Bureau of Circulations said in a statement that an exhaustive review of the Journal's circulation arrangements found that while they may have been "complex and at times circuitous," investigators had turned up nothing to show that the deals broke the rules. In October, former Wall Street Journal program manager Gert Van Mol accused the company of artificially inflating its European circulation figures by effectively paying for its own newspapers via a third party company. The allegation was disputed by the Journal. -- AP

Beckham briefs line for H&M

English soccer icon and former Emporio Armani underwear model David Beckham is designing his own briefs in partnership with Swedish cheap n' chic fashion retailer Hennes and Mauritz. The collection, dubbed Bodywear, will be up for grabs both online and in 1,800 H&M stores worldwide as of Feb. 2 and is the first step in a planned long-term cooperation between H&M and the LA Galaxy midfielder. -- AP