July 27, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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🔒Graying CT creates business opportunities for diverse industries

They make nutritious home-delivered meals, residences more navigable and bodies more agile. They offer home care and companionship and legal and financial services.

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🔒Sheraton Hartford Hotel at Bradley Celebrates No. 1 Ranking

Employees at the Sheraton Hartford Hotel at Bradley International Airport recently celebrated their 2014 ranking as the...

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Hotels rebound from rough winter season

Q&A talks about the hotel industry with Karen Bachofner, vice president of sales and marketing of the Waterford Hotel Group Inc., which manages the Marriott Hartford Downtown, Hilton Hartford, Residence Inn by Marriott Hartford, Sheraton Hotel at Bradley Airport and Courtyard by Marriott Cromwell.

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒New owners plot former Avon Old Farms Inn’s future

When Nicholas Chabot, his mom and two siblings opened Farmington Gardens, an upscale wedding reception facility in Farmington in 2011, it was a bit of a gamble. They had no clients lined up and no industry experience.

Health Care

🔒Knee, hip surgery business flourishes amid aging population

Older residents are determined, more than ever, not to let age slow them down. To see the impact that's having look no further than doctors who do hip and knee replacements: They're busy, very busy.

Banking & Finance

🔒Biotech boosts CT’s 2Q venture funding

After a slow start to the year, venture funding in Connecticut surged in the second quarter thanks largely to continued investor interest in biotechnology companies.

Nonprofits

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Community Solutions Inc.

Capital Workforce Partners was recently awarded a $75,000 grant from the Travelers Foundation to provide programmatic support...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒W. Hfd. plans transit-oriented development on New Park Ave.

The West Hartford Housing Authority (WHHA), fresh off the debut of its newest mixed-market rate housing development in town, is readying its next building project.

Accounting

🔒Report: Family businesses not prepared for succession planning

Nearly four out of five family owned businesses are not prepared when current management retires, a new report says, indicating there is a major succession-planning gap for many U.S. and Connecticut companies.

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🔒Bristol Hospital receives business workforce star award

Bristol Hospital recently received the business workforce star award at Capital Workforce Partners' (CWP's) annual Workforce Star...

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🔒United Way hosts Day of Action

During the United Way Day of Action, 75 local volunteers joined together to promote healthy, active and...

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🔒How to get the right job to find you

Employment is on the up side. Employers are actively looking. Offers are getting better. Even so, many find themselves stuck where they are with no light at the end of the tunnel.

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🔒Stonemason finds new niche moving seniors

It was by accident that Scott Walker fell into his moving business helping seniors relocate.

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🔒CT Landmarks’ 5th annual Garden Gala raises $11,000

Connecticut Landmarks' 5th annual Garden Gala brought 125 guests to the Butler-McCook Garden to celebrate the beginning...

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🔒Data breaches threaten interconnected society

By now massive data breaches have become all too familiar to the millions of Americans who have been affected by them and whose private information has been stolen and consequences unknown. What's going on? The answer is, no one knows except the hackers, and they aren't talking.

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🔒Keys to managing change

“Triggers — Creating Behavior That Lasts” by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter (Crown Business, $27). Whether it's...

News

🔒Growing number of CT industries cater to older residents’ needs

In this final summer installment of HBJ's series, “Connecticut's Silver Tsunami,” reporter John Stearns takes an in-depth look at companies and entrepreneurs who are finding significant business opportunities providing care and other services to older residents.

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🔒Job growth is key to replacing aging workforce

This week Hartford Business Journal wraps up the latest installment of its “Connecticut's Silver Tsunami” series with a look at new business opportunities being created by the state's aging population.

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