ARDENT DISPLAYS CAPTURES INDUSTRY
AWARDS, INKS NEW DEAL WITH STAPLES
Two point-of-purchase displays from Ardent Displays & Packaging, an East Hartford design and manufacturing firm, were recently honored at the 2012 Outstanding Merchandising Achievement contest presented by Point of Purchase Advertising International in Las Vegas. A floor display developed by Ardent for Ultimat Vodka and a floor display designed for Pilot Pen’s line of writing instruments, Bottle2Pen, were honored.
In related news, Ardent has teamed up with Staples to design and manufacture an exclusive display for a line of home office goods created by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Avery-Dennison, Inc.
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TWO UTC FELLOWS ELECTED TO CASE
United Technologies Research Center, the research and innovation arm of United Technologies Corp., recently announced the election of two senior fellows, Dr. Sergei Burlatsky and Dr. Om Sharma, into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. The academy provides information and advice about science and technology to the government, industry and people of Connecticut and encourages an interest in science, engineering and technology in young people.
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WATERBURY FIRM EARNS BROKERAGE AWARD
Matthews Commercial Properties in Waterbury has been named one of the top leasing firms for 2011 in the Westchester & Southern Connecticut market area by the CoStar Group, an award based on the firm’s 2011 leasing transaction volume. Gerry Matthews and Ed Godin, Jr., partners in the firm, have been selected CoStar Power Broker winners based on their individual total industrial leasing transactions for 2011.
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SHEA NAMED TWAIN HOUSE BOARD SECRETARY
Jeanmarie B. Shea, an attorney in the Individual clients practice group at Robinson & Cole, has been elected to serve as secretary on the board of trustees for The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford. Shea’s practice focuses on estate and tax planning, probate, trust administration and charitable giving. She has experience representing both individual and corporate fiduciaries in complex estate, trust, tax, and related matters involving the probate courts, the Internal Revenue Service, the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services and other regulatory authorities.
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St. JOSEPH COllege GRADS TO BE HONORED
Five St. Joseph College graduates will be honored with distinguished alumnae/i awards for outstanding work in their fields on April 27 at the Wampanoag Country Club in West Hartford. Honorees include: Patricia Rehmer, state commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services, who was in the first master’s program in nursing at the college; Pamela K. Atwood, director of life enrichment and dementia care at Hebrew Health Care, who received a master’s in gerontology; George G. Ducharme, who received a master’s in special education and went on to establish programs to help the disabled; M. Jane Ryan, a retired kindergarten teacher who has been active in improving standards for early childhood education since receiving her bachelor’s degree in 1954; and Mary P. Mitchell, who started college at 50 and went on to become an expert in helping the elderly write their life stories.
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VANTIS LIFE’S TEDONE NAMED ‘EMT OF THE YEAR’
Peter L. Tedone, president and CEO of Vantis Life Insurance Co., a Windsor-based firm of 94 employees which he has guided toward record growth since he took the helm in 2000, has been recognized as “EMT of the Year” for his dedication to the Simsbury Volunteer Ambulance Association, where he has volunteered as an emergency medical technician for the past 23 years.
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