Michael Juliano joined the Hartford Business Journal in February 2025 as a staff writer covering Fairfield County. He has been a journalist since 1998, having worked as a US correspondent for TradeWinds, an international shipping newspaper, and as a business reporter for the Republican-American in Waterbury and the Stamford Advocate. Before that, he served as a general assignment reporter for a chain of weekly newspapers covering the towns of Darien, Westport and Fairfield.
Patriot Bank is abandoning traditional community banking to focus on wealthy clients, family offices and fintech firms, part of a strategic overhaul by CEO Steven Sugarman following years of losses and regulatory troubles at the Stamford-based institution.
Kubtec, a Stratford-based medical imaging manufacturer, is buying a 158,888-square-foot former Unilever building in Trumbull for $3.7 million to expand production and manufacturing capacity as demand for its digital X-ray equipment grows.