May 5, 2025 - Hartford Business Journal

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒CT PR pro: Blue Origin’s space stunt fell flat

Blue Origin’s performative space stunt last month was an embarrassment.It was an embarrassment to the concept of female empowerment, to those of us in the PR profession (who should have known better), and to the women who allowed themselves to be used as clickbait.The event included a group of high-profile women — such as pop […]

Small Business

🔒Here’s how federal tariff policies are already impacting CT small to midsize businesses

There are small businesses all around Connecticut that are heavily reliant on overseas trade, and for them,...

Banking & Finance

🔒Wealth management industry consolidation is ‘happening at breakneck speed,’ experts say

The wealth management industry has been consolidating for the past decade, but the pace of merger activity...

Banking & Finance

🔒This Middletown company finances the timeshare industry; sector consolidation poses a major challenge

Colebrook Financial, a Middletown-based lender to the timeshare industry, is witnessing a consolidation trend in the sector...

Agriculture

🔒Restaurant and food brand backed by CT dairy farmers eyes aggressive growth

Two decades ago, six Connecticut dairy farms came together to launch The Farmer’s Cow milk brand, aiming...

Energy

🔒CT company loses federal contracts for solar EV chargers amid Trump admin. rollback

Guy Mannino founded electric vehicle infrastructure company Verdek in 2008, during the Great Recession, when oil cost...

Health Care

🔒Durand returns to CT from Rhode Island to lead New Britain’s Hospital for Special Care; reimbursement rates, worker burnout among key challenges

When Lynn Ricci, the longtime president and CEO of New Britain-based Hospital for Special Care (HFSC), announced in June last year...

Politics & Policy

🔒Fintechs try again to ease restrictions on ‘earned wage access’ services in CT

If you’re not familiar with companies such as Brigit, DailyPay, EarnIn or Payactiv, you’ve likely never faced...

Economic Development

🔒After nearly half-century in Hartford, auto body shop eyes $5M expansion under second-generation ownership

Zane Ruzzi paid many childhood visits to his father’s 3,000-square-foot auto body shop in Hartford, where longtime...

Economic Development

🔒State incentives, including support from new quasi-public development agency, spurring major multifamily projects in Waterbury, Enfield

A long-vacant, 145,656-square-foot office complex in downtown Waterbury could be transformed into more than 100 apartments thanks...

Politics & Policy

🔒Proposed reforms to JobsCT hiring incentive program would broaden small biz access

When it was enacted as part of state budget revisions in 2022, the JobsCT tax rebate program...

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