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Alexander Soule

The new mommy track

Work places invite mother to stay

Oct-05-08, 07:00 PM

General Electric Co. and UBS AG rank among the top companies for working mothers, according to a new ranking by Working Mother magazine.

Earnings report

Aug-13-10, 02:29 PM

Earnings reports for Pitney Bowes, Frontier Communications, Harman International Industries, Ethan Allen Interiors, Star Gas Partners, Arch Chemicals, Bolt Technology, Information Services Group, XL Group, Genesee & Wyoming.

Collectibles deal still afloat

Concord Industries and Vegas outfit still talking

Jun-01-08, 07:00 PM

Promotional-products vendor Concord Industries Inc. extended a deadline to complete a proposed merger with Seaena Inc., a Las Vegas company that embosses crystal blocks with images from digital photographs.

Golden opportunities

New breed of seniors seek job training, return to the work force

Jul-13-08, 07:00 PM

As the Older Americans Act reaches middle age, the composition of seniors seeking job training under the law’s Senior Community Service Employment Program appears to be changing as well, as more aging white men and immigrants turn to the program to generate added cash.

GE Capital restructures

Action could be the first state to face, adviser says

Dec-07-08, 07:00 PM

General Electric Co. announced it will take a charge against earnings of at least $1 billion in the fourth quarter, with much of the restructuring slated for its GE Capital subsidiary that employs more than 3,000 people in Fairfield County.



DECD offers economic plan

Sep-25-09, 12:33 PM

The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development released a 550-page strategic economic plan for the state.

Real estate in brief

Jul-20-08, 07:00 PM

BioMetrics Inc., a prosthetics vendor, relocated its Trumbull office to 115 Technology Drive, just across Route 111 from its former building.

Environment ups presence on ledgers

Municipal recycling lags

Jul-06-08, 07:00 PM

A new survey suggests six in 10 Connecticut businesses are tightening their environmental policies, up from just under half a year ago, even as a new report indicated Connecticut municipalities must double their rate of recycling to meet state goals.

Golf’s moveable feast

Apr-06-08, 07:00 PM

Multicourse memberships prove hot



Anti-business bias in the House?

May-22-09, 04:12 PM

 As the Connecticut General Assembly finalizes its budget proposal, at least a few in the business community are already fed up with a perceived anti-business bias among freshman representatives.

Wilton attorney pleads guilty to mortgage scheme

Aug-17-08, 07:00 PM

A Wilton man pleaded guilty to defrauding banks and individuals of $8 million, by inflating the value of properties to obtain mortgages and using the funds for his own use and that of co-conspirators.

Commercial real estate in brief

May-28-10, 09:21 AM

New Canaan’s Maples Inn will be converted to condominiums.

Seeing double at the buffet table

Edible Arrangements settles with N.Y. competitor

Nov-16-08, 07:00 PM

Edible Arrangements L.L.C., a Wallingford-based company that is among the fastest-growing franchisors in the country, settled its food fight in federal court against a rival company that makes fruit baskets and centerpieces sculpted like floral displays.

P&G cuts loose Clairol site

Mar-04-10, 12:38 PM

Procter & Gamble Co. has sold its Clairol plant in Stamford to local developers.

Fuel cell momentum builds

Chemically induced current flew with Gemini missions

Mar-02-08, 07:00 PM

Companies working on fuel-cell technology have employed 1,150 new employees in Connecticut.

Quiescent times shore up insurance coffers

Despite nor’easter and West Coast fires, lots of cash

Dec-09-07, 07:00 PM

Even as Congress debated whether to extend a law that helped stabilize insurance rates following the 2001 terrorist attacks, brokers said that an absence of major catastrophes the past two years has produced a buyer’s market for property and casualty coverage.

New bank targets moneyed depositors

Dec-23-07, 07:00 PM

More than 30 investors have chipped in $36 million in support of a new private bank, and the company’s founders anticipate raising $9 million more as the bank anticipates a February launch.

Earnings in brief

Jul-23-10, 11:46 AM

ASML’s results improved significantly in the second quarter.

Real estate in brief

Oct-07-07, 07:00 PM

Antares Investment Partners has pre-leased 70 percent of the former UST Inc. headquarters at 100 West Putnam Ave. in Greenwich.

Gen-X2

Sikorsky’s chopper prototype pinned to Pentagon’s needs

Feb-08-09, 07:00 PM

As Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. continues testing a new helicopter prototype, the Department of Defense is weighing the creation of a massive effort to develop futuristic choppers.