May 28, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Manufacturing

Asia Emerges As Prime UTC Market | UTC head: China, new energy technologies key to company’s growth

United Technologies Corp. is positioned to capitalize on strong growth potential in Asian markets and to make...

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Taking A Scalpel To Med-Mal Premiums | Insurance company wants to cut malpractice rates by 24 percent

An Indiana insurance company that raised medical malpractice rates 90 percent three years ago is now asking...

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Walk It Off

Foodshare’s Walk Against Hunger raised $421,508 for hungry people in the Greater Hartford Region. Members of The...

Manufacturing

Energy Project Stalled Again | CCEF getting lease bill for inoperable equipment

The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund’s March completion date to get a nearly $2.5 million biomass gasification project...

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Gap Between Rich, Poor Is Generational

Prashant Tungare arrived in the United States in 1984 with a wife, a child and $500 in...

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Airline Chiefs Disagree On Best Market Strategy

A surprising slowdown in the growth of demand for airline seats this year had the CEOs of...

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State Is Committed To Bringing Polluted Properties Back To Use

Several articles about brownfield redevelopment have appeared in various newspapers across the state in recent weeks. While...

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Best Foot Forward

Centrian Life Insurance donated $10,000 to the CT Breast Health Initiative Inc. at the 2007 Conn. Race...

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Pfizer Research Chief, CFO To Leave By End Of Year

Jeffrey Kindler, the chief executive of the world’s largest drug maker Pfizer Inc., continued to clean house...

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Eatery Aims For Peas Of Mind | Local foods for upscale menu, with upscale prices

Hartford’s Firebox Restaurant’s managers want future patrons to know: When you eat here, your meal will not...

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Finding The Perfect Sales Rep

Every time I speak to an audience of sales people, as part of my preparation, I ask...

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Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a major trend in marketing management. Put simply, Customer Relationship Management means...

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Hillary For President?

I do not want Hillary Clinton to be president, but I am getting more comfortable with the...

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From Janitor To Parking Czar

When James Kopencey, director of the Hartford Parking Authority, started working as a teenager, the experience did...

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Money Maze

Lyman Orchards donated $36,710 from 2006 Corn Maze ticket sales to the American Cancer Society. Pictured, from...

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College Housing Investors Plan Big Development Push | Avon company lures key Konover Properties exec to its fold

An Avon company that’s made a niche business of investing in housing for college students says it...

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Fed Proposes Changes For Credit Cards’ Fine Print

Lenders and retailers offering credit cards and other forms of open-ended credit would have to give consumers...

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The Tug Of War

Strategy versus execution. Sales versus operations. Increasing income versus reducing costs. Every entrepreneur faces a constant tug...

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State Contracts — May 28, 2007

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

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Hartford Small Businesses Unite, Lobby Lawmakers

About 200 small business owners have joined together to fight tax bills that unfairly shift Hartford’s tax...

Manufacturing

A Past And Future Written In Steel

One often gains a sense of how a town looked years earlier by the businesses that later...

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Capital Connection

The Aetna Foundation donated $10,000 to Capital Workforce Partners in support of its youth employment and learning...

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Man On A Mission | How service as a Marine changed one young Hartford lobbyist

It was like any other morning for M. Randall Collins Jr. Off to the state Capitol in...

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Poliner Picked For Post | Rell taps lawyer to become first property rights ombudsman

Gov. M. Jodi Rell nominated a Middletown attorney to become the first property rights ombudsman in Connecticut,...

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Ski Resort Owner Rejects Takeover

The owner of the Powder Ridge Ski Area says efforts by the town and the owner of...

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Movers & Shakers — May 28, 2007

CW 20 appointed Todd Desroches account executive. Previously, he was account director for Madison Square Garden Connecticut.The...

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Up In The Clouds

It was the ’70s and everyone was flying, but Ann McClure was really up in the clouds,...

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Retailers Rout Bankers In Fraud Liability Fight

If you shop at T.J. Maxx or Marshalls department stores frequently, you might remember where you were...

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A Toque-n War

NOTE TO EDITOR OF HARTFORD BUSINESS JOURNAL: According to the Toronto Star newspaper, the only U.S. news...

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Branching Out

Citizen’s Bank held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new branch in West...

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Of Note — May 28, 2007

OF NOTE • CONCORA artistic director Richard Coffey was presented with the lifetime achievement award. Coffey is founder...

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State: Charity Chief Used Money For Cruise, Beauty Treatments | Attorney General seeking restitution and civil penalties

Connecticut’s attorney general filed suit last week against the former executive director of a Bridgeport charity, accusing...

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Make-Believe Governing

Nearly a century ago, filmmaker Mack Sennett knew where to draw good source material for successful farce....

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