March 20, 2023 - Hartford Business Journal

Cannabis

🔒New accelerator program seeks to help launch social equity cannabis startups

On Jan. 10, recreational cannabis sales officially became legal in Connecticut. Already, consumers age 21 and older have shown there is demand for adult-use pot products. Through the end of February, recreational cannabis sales surpassed $12 million. As the marijuana industry gears up to meet that growing demand, the state’s Social Equity Council has helped […]

News

🔒More transparency needed on pharmacy benefit managers — the health insurance middlemen

Escalating healthcare costs affect the budgets of everyone — from young families with children to senior citizens...

Health Care

🔒Bordonaro: Lobbying spending highlights key focus on health care this legislative session

Need a tell-tale sign the state legislature is in session?Look out for published reports that tout an...

Health Care

🔒Hartford HealthCare at forefront of outpatient surgical center expansion trend

As Hartford HealthCare seeks to expand its footprint in Fairfield, Windham and Litchfield counties, it’s facing some...

Health Care

🔒Lamont’s top healthcare advisor Gifford leads efforts to rein in escalating costs

When Gov. Ned Lamont seeks out advice on healthcare issues he turns to a number of advisors,...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Torrington homebuilder Ugalde gains national industry stature

In New England, the name Greg Ugalde is synonymous with the National Association of Home Builders, which...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒In Vegas, CT homebuilders sort through industry headwinds, opportunities

Choices. Choices. Choices. When more than 70 members of the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Central Connecticut...

Agriculture

🔒Small CT farms diversify with agritourism to survive, grow

John and Carolyn Torello are looking to add a new revenue stream to their farm by building...

Banking & Finance

🔒Amid consolidation wave, CT has lost 45% of its credit unions in 15 years

Fifty-seven years after it was founded to provide financial services to Danbury Hospital employees, Western Connecticut Federal...

Economy & Labor

🔒CT companies use unlimited time-off policies as recruitment tool

With companies competing for talent in a still-tight labor market, some are turning to more generous time-off...

Manufacturing

🔒New CONNEX website links state’s manufacturers and suppliers

Jill Mayer, CEO of Bead Industries, describes the last several years as “feast or famine” when it...

Manufacturing

🔒Three years after pandemic disrupted flow of goods and services, supply chains begin to ‘normalize’

Supply-chain issues have plagued many executives of Connecticut small, midsize and global manufacturers in recent years. New Britain-based...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Up for auction, nearly 300,000-sq.-ft. Wallingford office building reflects industry struggles

Construction of a large-scale Wallingford headquarters for Mortgage Lenders Network ground to a halt in 2007, leaving...

Education

🔒UConn student-led venture fund bets on sustainability, insurtech, edtech startups

When Aria Penna enrolled at UConn as a finance major she was eager to begin her coursework,...

Economic Development

🔒Expanding real estate investor has high hopes for apartments in former Hartford hotel

One of the new owners of a 19th-century, Gothic Victorian-style brick apartment building near Hartford’s Bushnell Park...

Economic Development

🔒DORO Marketplace eyes new Wethersfield location

Well-known West Hartford restaurateur Dorjan Puka is looking to expand his European-inspired cafe and bakery DORO Marketplace...

March 20, 2023Edition

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