What are your most significant accomplishments in the past 12 months?Our family business has refurbished our dock for social events. We are also completing the restoration of our 70-foot vessel Sunbeam VII to be added to our fleet.How do you instill your family values in your employees?Most of our employees have been with us for […]
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What are your most significant accomplishments in the past 12 months?
Our family business has refurbished our dock for social events. We are also completing the restoration of our 70-foot vessel Sunbeam VII to be added to our fleet.
How do you instill your family values in your employees?
Most of our employees have been with us for many years and are treated as family. Their safety is dependent upon trusting each other as they do.
How can Connecticut improve its family business environment?
The services our family business offers are optional or discretionary. Our customers don't have to use us; they choose to. So, when the economy is bad (as it has been) and people stop spending money, we lose much needed business. What compounds this problem is when we get additional state regulations and taxes imposed on us. The net result is we get fewer customers and a higher cost per customer to operate. Connecticut can help improve its family business environment by being more sensitive to the needs of our industry that is hanging on by only the thinnest of threads, and encouraging the state's tourism agency to promote family businesses more aggressively.
