Fairfield County Business Journal

1. Bridgeport to Manhattan in 17 minutes
You're a high-priced Fairfield County executive working on Wall Street whose time is valuable. Your commute to lower Manhattan? A total of 17 minutes each ...
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2. Chocolatiers expand to meet demand
When Deborah Ann and Mike Grissmer were planning to start a candy-making business in Ridgefield in 1998, they thought they'd be opening something unique in ...
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3. Starwood Capital Group to launch luxury hotel brand
Starwood Capital Group of Greenwich plans to launch a new international luxury brand called the Crillon through its Societe du Louvre affiliate. The company will ...
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4. Health-Conscious Menus Gain in Popularity
Hotels and conference centers in the area are implementing new menus as a way to cater to their business customers. The health-conscious Hilton Rye Town ...
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5. Lodging industry on a fast track for 2006
Less than five years after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the debilitating recession hobbled the hospitality industry, the outlook at the 5th annual ...
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6. Retail recruiter hunts up stores for Stamford
To get more retail space occupied in downtown Stamford, the city's Downtown Special Services District has a real estate professional with experience recruiting companies. "My ...
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7. Ridgefield struggling with loss of major downtown landowner
Ridgefield officials are scrambling to deal with the fallout from the closing later this year of the town's second-largest taxpayer, the sale of its 45 ...
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8. Urban makeover, chapter 2
Mayor Mark Boughton's vision for reviving Danbury's downtown reads like a how-to manual. One reason is that the former high school teacher has been "doing ...
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9. Cut taxes, red tape, groups ask lawmakers
When the General Assembly starts its short, 12-week session on Wednesday it should use the expected budget surplus to get the state government's fiscal house ...
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10. Liftoff
Today, David Adler, vice president for worldwide customer service at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, oversees operations that employ 3,000 people, but he learned about business ...
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