Recently added articles from Vermont Business Magazine:

Reynolds and Son Selected as Vermont's 2008 Family-Owned Business of the Year

Jun 01, 2008; Herrington, Kate ... Having worked his way from the bottom up and being the owner's only son, Bruce Seel expected to one day own the business, Reynolds and Son, in S. Barre. Starting in his junior year of high school, he worked summers, weekends and holidays in what was then the Reynolds warehouse in Barre. Seel ...

Don Padgett Wins Financial Award

Jun 01, 2008; Johnston, Cecile ... If you've thought about starting a small business in central Vermont, there's a good chance you've spoken with Don Padgett. For eighteen years, Padgett has worked as a business counselor with the Micro Business Development Program (MBDP) at Central Vermont Community Action Council, ...

Fletcher Allen: What's in a name?

Jun 01, 2008; Edelstein, Art ... By late this year Fletcher Allen Health Care will have a new name, although at this time what it will be is undetermined. Public relations head Mike Noble said that whatever the new name eventually becomes, "we're going to retain Fletcher Allen." The name change is the result of ...

PEG-TV Director Wins Award

Jun 01, 2008; Herrington, Kate ... Michael Valentine, Executive Director of Rutland Region Community Television, has been selected as the 2008 SBA Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year. Valentine was chosen for the award based on his support and advocacy of programming far veterans. Rutland Region Community Television is an ...

Coco's Frame Shop And Gallery Receives Vt Microenterprise Award

Jun 01, 2008; Herrington, Kate ... For more than 20 years, creative expression has been Coco Dowley's ticket to success. It landed her a job at Hallmark Cards, it guaranteed the success of her design licensing business, and it was instrumental in starting her picture framing company in Stowe. Coco Dowley, owner of Coco's ...

Keeping the green in the Green Mountains

Jun 01, 2008; Blake, Catherine ... URS Corporation opened a new office in Rutland in 2007. It provides engineering and consulting services in the environmental, health & safety, and transportation sectors. Maureen Alvarez and Lee Gustafson of URS Corporation in Rutland were interviewed by Catherine Blake. VBM: What is ...

SBA winner Sharon Gutwin and the RehabGYM

Jun 01, 2008; Kelley, Kevin ... A visitor might initially regard the RehabGym in Colchester as a typical training facility. It's got all the usual exercise machines along with the requisite studio for yoga and Pilates classes. There's also a pair of small heated pools, one with a current to allow simulated lap ...

In It for the Long Haul

Jun 01, 2008; Marcel, Joyce ... It's just like alchemy. With enough hard work, a person can turn dross - or in this case, scrap metal -into gold. With an American consumer economy gone shaky and a global marketplace hungry for commodities, Vermont's recycling industry, like the rest of the country's, is booming. Paper ...

Q&A: Sandy Blitz, Regional SBA Administrator

Jun 01, 2008; Smith, Robert ... Sandy Blitz was appointed regional administrator for the US Small Business Administration's New England Region on October 15, 2007. As regional administrator, Blitz is responsible for the delivery of the agency's financial assistance, technical assistance and government contracting activities ...

Montague Wins 2008 Women in Business Champion Award

Jun 01, 2008; Herrington, Kate ... Colleen Montague, Program Manager for the Vermont Agency of Transportation's (VTrans) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program, has been selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the 2008 VT Women in Business Champion of the Year. The DBE Program is a certification and ...

County focuses on transpo, downtowns to stem tide

Jun 01, 2008; Barna, Ed ... It's hard to go up a down escalator. Rutland County leaders had already been concerned about lackluster business growth, stagnant population growth, and the youth drain that has threatened to hit much of Vermont with a demographic tsunami when the Baby Boomers retire. Adding on the war effort ...

Exports rebound 7.4 percent in Vermont

Jun 01, 2008; Simos, Evangelos Otto ... The latest monthly numbers on international trade show that foreign sales from Vermont's companies rose confirming that foreign demand stays on track to its current brisk trend. Like here at home, consumers abroad - in countries doing business with Vermont's exporters - are feeling the ...

Hospitals struggle to maintain revenues

Jun 01, 2008; Edelstein, Art ... Most businesses would not have a price disparity that accepted a 60 percent bill payment from some clients while charging others as much as 132 percent of their payment. Neither would a viable business seek donations to stay afloat. It is also unlikely that any business would plan its annual ...