March 24, 2008 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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CBRE Preps For Proxy Showdown | Credit crisis, loan losses expose REIT to upheaval

Stung by loan losses to Manhattan real estate investor Harry Macklowe and by dangerously illiquid credit markets,...

Manufacturing

Comcast To Compete With AT&T’s Small Biz Bundles

Comcast is the latest communications giant to compete with telecom giant AT&T for services geared to small-...

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SUPPORT FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

The Allstate Foundation presented EntrepreneursNOW with a $30,000 check to support its after school entrepreneurial course for...

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Pagani Wrong: Public Campaign Financing Funds Are Not Abused

In a recent column, Dean Pagani publicly worried about the potential for “waste, fraud and abuse” in...

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Why Customers Buy From You

When a customer is ready to make a buying decision, you, naturally, want to be the one...

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COAT COLLECTION

Marriott Hartford Downtown in Hartford collected 53 coats in its coat drive and donated them to the...

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March 24, 2008 — Movers & Shakers

Christine Finck was named associate director for academic affairs in the department of pediatric surgical sub-specialties at...

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GIVING TO GRIEVING CENTER

The Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving donated $18,000 to Mary’s Place in Windsor. The funds will support...

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A Partner In Abuse Prevention

Whether she believes it or not, Kate Antonucci is a teacher. As much as she thought she...

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Million-Dollar Real Estate Still Strong | Although sales of high-end Hartford County homes have fallen, prices remain stable

Sales of high-end homes in the Hartford region slipped 34 percent in the first two months of...

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Plan Could Help Spur Home Refinancings

The government’s action last week to reduce the level of capital that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

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March 24, 2008 — OF NOTE

• Andy Fulmer won a 2007 Jaguar X Type from the South Windsor Chamber of Commerce car...

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‘Coworking’ Trend Comes To State | Urban, office-sharing concept to launch in Simsbury

Two marketing entrepreneurs are preparing to open a coworking center on Route 10 in Simsbury to offer...

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Citibank To Close 10 Branches In Northern Connecticut | Parent company hurt by subprime losses

Citigroup has confirmed that it will be closing 10 Citibank branches in northern Connecticut, and it has...

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Otis Lands Trump Building Deal In Toronto

Farmington-based Otis Elevator Co. has won a contract valued at more than $10 million to provide elevators...

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RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY

Avant Business Services celebrated the grand opening of its new facility in Hartford with a ribbon-cutting ceremony....

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MICRO MEETING

The Community Economic Development Fund has signed on as a presenting sponsor for the upcoming Micro Enterprise...

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Fourth Estate Flight

As newspaper advertising revenues and circulations continue to decline, veteran reporters are being asked to leave the...

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Signs Of Spring: The Marriage Debate

It’s become another rite of spring — the annual debate in the legislature about same-sex marriage. Since...

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Contrast In Styles

Gov. M. Jodi Rell was among those present last week as David Paterson was sworn in as...

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March 24, 2008 — State Contracts

Here are the latest bids for products and services received by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services...

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Prudential Adding 275 Jobs | State to loan insurer $4.6 million to improve Hartford headquarters

After flirting with out-of-state locations, Prudential Retirement has reaffirmed its commitment to Hartford. Thanks in part to...

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Index Suggests Economy Is Slipping Into Recession

A gauge of future economic activity dropped for the fifth consecutive month in February, suggesting that the...

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Opportunities Created By Chums And Chance

For one summer in high school, ESPN SportsCenter Anchor Scott Van Pelt stepped into the sweaty, steel-toed...

Manufacturing

Home Work In Harwinton

People speak often of cottage industries, but it’s not usually a machine shop inside of a house...

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When Stress Turns To Distress

Aren’t vacations wonderful? But returning to work following a vacation can be stressful. Fighting traffic in the...

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Marketing The God Business

So, if the publisher wants to double the circulation of the Hartford Business Journal, she buys huge...

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AT&T Swats Away Proposals

AT&T filed its 2007 proxy this month and, in what’s becoming an annual ritual, swatted away several...

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Dailies In Danger | JRC, parent company of New Haven Register, Connecticut Magazine, in financial crisis

The finances of the Pennsylvania parent company of 75 Connecticut publications, including the New Haven Register and...

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