Connecticut Business News Wire
Business Buyers Less Wary
After four somnambulant years, M&A activity heats up in state
Starting a business is fraught with stress and uncertainty, but also a sense of naïve optimism. You’ve broken free of the cor...
Job-Training for Real Marketplace Needs
NEW HAVEN — Services at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s main location on York Street are supplemented by a number of facilities throughout the region. Among them are blood-drawing sites. All must ...
Yale Nursing School To Move
Will occupy former Bayer site by fall 2013
NEW HAVEN — The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will be moved from New Haven to the university’s recently acquired campus in Orange and West Haven next...
$343K for Lefty Center Sparks Flap
NEW HAVEN — A proposal to give more than $300,000 in state assistance to a New Haven community center with ties to the Communist Party was pulled abruptly off the State Bond Commission agend...
Cafe Chain Eyes Connecticut
Franchise plans to open 22 stores in southern New England
DALLAS, Tex. — Corner Bakery Cafe, a franchise whose signature fare is grilled panini, baked sweets and breakfast “scramblers,” says...
QU Med School Teams with MidState
HAMDEN — The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University has formed a five-year clinical affiliation with MidState Medical Center , a Hartford HealthCare partner, in Meriden.
As ...
Drones To Fly Over UConn
STORRS — It looks like there will be a different set of wings over Storrs.
The University of Connecticut was granted authority by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly drone aircraft...
Hoping for Capital Gains
With bank lending still hard to come by, small companies seek financing alternatives
As the recession stubbornly refuses to g...
We Have Met The Solution and It Is Us
For those that would worry about the future and our ability to solve our pressing environmental problems we offer you proof t...
A Westerner Takes the Reins at Southern -On the Record May 2012:
Papazian hopes to broaden SCSU’s community engagement
On February 1 Mary Papazian became president of the Southern Connecticut...
Boost Bottom Line Through Energy Efficiency
The week of May 20-26 is National Small Business Week — a week to honor small-business owners nationwide and a time to recogn...
Indigo By The Water to open in former Cabo Restaurant Location
Attached please find a press release regarding the opening of the new restaurant, Indigo By The Water. Indigo By The Water wil...
UTC To Exit Wind Business
HARTFORD — United Technologies Corp . is finalizing negotiations for the sale of its Rocketdyne space unit, a transaction that ...
New & Improved Technologies to Treat Patients
Health-care providers leverage next-generation technologies to treat patients
There are few things that seem more of-the-futur...
So How We Doing?
It could be worse as commercial construction moves ahead "cautiously"
The downturn in the nation’s economy has affected constr...
New Trade Group Looks to Hartford
Alliance of Small Manufacturers calls on lawmakers to take action
NEW HAVEN — A new trade group has been organized to represen...
Going to Where the Patients Are
Increasingly downtown hospitals rely on satellite facilities to reach consumers beyond the city center
For someone living outs...
Malloy Gets Sunday Sales (Sort Of)
Lawmakers approve partial package pushed by governor
HARTFORD — The topic of the revision of Connecticut liquor laws remains i...
OPINION: Courant Profits From Pimping Children
Should Connecticut try to prevent the Tribune Co. — publishers of the Hartford Courant , the New Haven and Hartford Advocate , Fai...
CII Rocks Raditaz’s World With Pre-Seed $$
SOUTH GLASTONBURY — Streaming music platform Raditaz is getting a $150,000 boost from Connecticut Innovations Inc. (CII) to adv...
Mothers of Invention
State St.’s MakeHaven the newest ‘co-working’ space
NEW HAVEN — “Co-working” space is on the rise, and New Haven certainly is ...
The New Math for Hospitals
Reflecting industry-wide realities, both New Haven and Waterbury will see their two major hospitals become one
If current plan...
YNHH Plans No. Haven Outpatient Center
NORTH HAVEN — Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) will move ahead with its plans to develop an outpatient center in the former AT&...
Tech Women Honored
EAST HARTFORD — Several local women were given top honors from the Connecticut Technology Council as part of its annual Women ...
Startups Get Accelerator Cash
NEW HAVEN — Six local startups have been selected to receive $25,000 each in funding from Connecticut Innovations Inc.’s (CII...
Hate Gas Prices? Electricity’s Next
The media have been claiming so for years. And in 2011, their assertion was finally accurate.
Last year’s average gasoline pri...
Compromised Minimum Wage Bill Moves Forward
HARTFORD — Connecticut’s minimum wage is one step closer to going up.
A bill passed by the state Labor and Employees Committee March 15 would raise the state minimum ...
Compromised Minimum Wage Bill Moves Forward
HARTFORD — Connecticut’s minimum wage is one step closer to going up.
A bill passed by the state Labor and Employees Committee March 15 would raise the state minimum ...
SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - The Grove
From The Grove flows a ‘river’ of innovation and collaboration
The times certainly are a-changin’, and the way we view and conduct business is, too.
Whether it’s the e...
Bespoke To Go Moroccan
NEW HAVEN — Bespoke Restaurant and Lounge, the popular College Street eatery known for its French-inspired cuisine and long-running property dispute with Yale Univer...
Business Buyers Less Wary
After four somnambulant years, M&A activity heats up in state
Starting a business is fraught with stress and uncertainty, but also a sense of naïve optimism. You’...
Sales April 2012
Master of Disaster
BRANFORD –– Milica Sekerovic has purchased a 2,354-square-foot commercial condominium unit at 65-6 North Branford Road in the Millbrook Business Cond...
RESIDENTIAL GREEN PROJECT: Holly Street Homes/Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust
240 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport
Elizabeth Torres, executive director
10 employees
A Green Roof Over Their Heads
Green mission: Helps families with low to modera...
Big Guns Honored
Angel Commercial, LLC, Press/Cuozzo Commercial Realtors and Cushman & Wakefield are among the Westchester (N.Y.)/southern Connecticut winners of the 2011 CoStar Pow...
Minority Contract Audit
BRIDGEPORT — An independent law firm will conduct a review of and examine Bridgeport’s adherence to its minority-contracting ordinance, Mayor Bill Finch has announce...
Rosa’s Not in the Red
Working-class hero DeLauro among richest members of CongressNEW HAVEN — That staunch champion of the 99 percent is herself a member of the one percent.
That’s right: ...
It’s the Jobs, Stupid
But will Connecticut’s new ‘jobs bill’ actually put people back to work?
In August, during a visit to New Haven as part of his jobs tour, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy (pictu...CT Plays ‘Start Me Up’
Malloy plans initiative to encourage entrepreneurs
HARTFORD — While the hundreds of millions awarded to corporate giants like ESPN and UBS as part of his “First Five...
OPINION: Courant Profits From Pimping Children
Should Connecticut try to prevent the Tribune Co. — publishers of the Hartford Courant , the New Haven and Hartford Advocate , Fairfield County Weekly newspapers and owner...
2011: The Year in Review in Marketing
A good early indicator of which way the economy is trending may be found in marketing budgets. And many early indicators point to a growth trajectory, according to ...
Devil’s Gear Recognized by Trade Publication
NEW HAVEN — Bicycling Magazine has named the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop one of the 100 best bicycle shops in the United States. In a September article headlined “On Hallowed...Curtis Goes ‘Green to Gold’
NEWTOWN —
Curtis Packaging
of Sandy Hook is cited in Daniel C. Esty’s and P.J. Simmons’ recently released
Green to Gold Business Playbook
as an exemplar of implementing ...
Put the Pedal to the Metal
Spectra Energy of Houston, Tex. has proposed a $500 million expansion of the existing Algonquin (Natural) Gas Transmission pipeline. The goal is to augment the carry...
Pratt &Whitney Hits Milestone with Turkey
EAST HARTFORD — Pratt & Whitney ’s Turkish Engine Center recently delivered its 100 th overhauled CFM56 jet engine to Turkish Airlines .
The engine center is a joint ve...
UTC To Exit Wind Business
HARTFORD — United Technologies Corp . is finalizing negotiations for the sale of its Rocketdyne space unit, a transaction that is expected to take place at the end of ...
Sikorsky Gets Gold, Diamonds For Excellence
STRATFORD — Sikorsky Aircraft ’s Cherokee Nation Industries facility was certified as a UTC Supplier Gold site, making it the 15th Sikorsky supplier to be awarded for ...
Reducing Hospital Readmissions
NEW HAVEN — A local coalition called the Greater New Haven Coalition for Safe Transitions and Readmission Reductions (GNH CoSTARR) is one of 30 community-based progr...
MidState’s Dubin Earns Designation
MERIDEN — Howard Dubin , MD, director of the Hospitalist Service at MidState Medical Center , has earned the Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM) designation from t...
You Say It’s Your Birthday
NEW HAVEN —
A bevy of moms, babies and VIPs celebrated the first birthday of the Dr. Romeo A. and Lena B. Vidone Birth Center at the
Hospital of Saint Raphael
on Friday...
CHC Offers New HIV/Hep C Program
MIDDLETOWN — Community Health Center Inc . (CHC) has launched a state-of-the-art, evidence-based program known as CHC Project ECHO Hepatitis C/HIV. CHC is one of the ...
Drones To Fly Over UConn
STORRS — It looks like there will be a different set of wings over Storrs.
The University of Connecticut was granted authority by the Federal Aviation Administration (F...
CII Connects Innovators via Mobile App
ROCKY HILL — Connecticut Innovations Inc. (CII) has ventured into the mobile arena by releasing its own smart phone application, CT iHUB Mobile.
The app allows members ...
BioRelix Gets More Antibiotics Money
NEW HAVEN — Antibiotics developer BioRelix received a $269,160 follow-on investment from Connecticut Innovations Inc . (CII) for continued research.
The company is develo...
CyVek Gets $3M For Drug Research
WALLINGFORD — Biotech company CyVek Inc . has received $3 million in funding for its drug discovery research.
The company is developing a testing system for performing ...
Almanac May 2012
Steel Firm Faces Fine
TRUMBULL — Steel contractor American Building, LLC faces $51,700 in proposed fines ordered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safet...
New Adventures in Coworking
NEW HAVEN — Sure, working from home has its advantages. There are also, as Valeria Roncoli found, limitations.
“I was very alone. I was always complaining about being...
Calendar May 2012
SPECIAL EVENTS
Join the Crossroads Venture Group for Endowment & Foundation Venture Investing. Academic endowments and foundations are among the largest institution...
WHO’S WHAT, WHERE May 2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has nominated Arthur H. House of Simsbury to serve as a director of the state’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA). House most recently...
$343K for Lefty Center Sparks Flap
NEW HAVEN — A proposal to give more than $300,000 in state assistance to a New Haven community center with ties to the Communist Party was pulled abruptly off the St...
First Niagara Refinances Sports Center
SHELTON — First Niagara Financial Group has completed a $4.5 million commercial mortgage refinancing loan with the Sports Center of Connecticut, located on River Roa...
Hoping for Capital Gains
With bank lending still hard to come by, small companies seek financing alternatives
As the recession stubbornly refuses to go away, smaller companies are finding th...
So How We Doing?
It could be worse as commercial construction moves ahead "cautiously"
The downturn in the nation’s economy has affected construction in Connecticut as well, with new ...
Selling Out Our Kids
When push came to shove on public-school reform, we found out who really runs Hartford. And it isn’t the lawmakers at the Capitol
It’s the unions.
On March 26 it becam...
UNH Revamps Exec MBA Program
New themes, new location on tap this spring
NEW HAVEN — The University of New Haven’s College of Business will offer a restructured Executive MBA (EMBA) program in sp...
LEGACY AWARD 2011/12 - Hamden Hall Country Day School
Hamden Hall celebrates a centennial of molding young people into lifelong learners
It’s hardly unusual for a school to recruit students based on their athletic gifts....
Top Execs to Team-Teach Biz at QU
HAMDEN — Four of the nation’s most prominent corporate executives are heading back to the college classroom.Robert Castrignano, principal of Sandler O’Neill + Partn...
"Mitchell Young is the publisher of Business New Ha..."
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Posted on Thursday, 01 December 2011
