May 20, 2019Edition

News

🔒Panera Bread franchisees raise money for Foodshare

As part of its Community Breadbox program, nine Hartford-area Panera Bread bakery-cafés, members of the Howley Bread Group franchise, recently donated $9,000 collected from its customers to Foodshare. The donation […]
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🔒Johnson Brunetti lauded by Manchester Elks

Gerry Gallo, of the Manchester Elks Lodge 1893, recently presented a plaque to Johnson Brunetti in gratitude...
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🔒Tunxis joins Connecticut Science Center STEM showcase

Tunxis Community College participated in the Connecticut Science Center’s first ever STEM Career Showcase on March 26....
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🔒Tips for creating a successful business-communication strategy

“Make Some Noise — The Unconventional Road to Dominance” by Ken Schmidt (Simon & Schuster, $28).
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Economy & Labor

🔒Financially fit employees boost company productivity

For many people who have been deskbound all winter, spring brings a renewed focus on fitness and wellness: the sunshine, blooming flowers, and pleasant climate encourage us to get moving and trade sedentary pursuits for outdoor activities.
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🔒A new vision for a downtown Union Station

It’s long overdue, but for the first time, Hartford has caught a glimpse of what life might look like without the I-84 viaduct downtown.
Economic Development

🔒CT is average, and that’s not so bad

We’re No. 21! We’re No. 21!
Energy

🔒Amid FuelCell Energy’s capital crunch, Doosan reports steady progress

Connecticut’s homegrown fuel cell industry suffered a major blow last month when Danbury-based FuelCell Energy announced it would eliminate nearly one-third of its 431 jobs here.
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Economic Development

🔒Lehman talks CT’s regulatory environment, public-private partnerships

In an interview with Hartford Business Journal, new Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner David Lehman discussed myriad topics. Here’s a Q&A on some of them. Answers have been edited due to space constraints.
Economic Development

🔒DECD Commissioner David Lehman airs his early plans to jumpstart CT’s economy

David Lehman, Connecticut’s newest economic-development commissioner, sees himself as a life-long learner. Two books on the credenza in...
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🔒How to tell if the cloud is right for your business

For some business owners and professionals, the cloud is still a bit of an abstract concept. You may have a general sense that the cloud could help your business in some way, but have questions about security, cost, and how it all works.
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🔒Proactive steps to protect your business from a cyberattack

Countless companies unwittingly do risky things everyday that put their business in imminent danger of hack attacks.
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Health Care

🔒With Hartford insurance vet at helm, insurtech Covr sees major hiring, fundraising opportunities downtown

Covr Financial Technologies may be new to Hartford, but its chief executive has long been a fixture of downtown’s growing insurance-technology ecosystem.
Real Estate & Construction

🔒Hartford’s Stark Building signs leases

Two Cromwell tracts have been acquired for $400,000 on which a 12,960-square-foot building will be constructed to house NIC Systems Corp.’s eventual relocation of its Rocky Hill-based operations.
Real Estate & Construction

🔒Scannell’s ‘spec’ investment bet in Cromwell

On acreage barely visible from I-91 North, near Exit 23/West St. in Cromwell, construction workers are putting the finishing interior-exterior touches on a real estate development rarely seen these days in Greater Hartford’s commercial-industrial market.
Economy & Labor

🔒Yankee Institute pres. pans tolls, state’s pension crisis

From toll proposals to state pension liabilities, there are many policy issues in Connecticut for Carol Platt Liebau to weigh in on. And weigh in, she does.
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