Recently added articles from Vermont Business Magazine:
LED Dynamics
Feb 01, 2009; ... A quiet revolution is occurring in the lighting industry. Until Thomas Edison's invented the incandescent lamp in 1887, man had only the campfire, candle, oil lamp or other forms of fire generated illumination to relieve the darkness of night. General Electric developed the fluorescent tube in ...
Vermont Fleece warms inauguration
Feb 01, 2009; ... Six hundred Obama inauguration goers were kept warm on January 20 thanks to the efforts of the Vermont Fleece Company in Hyde Park Village. This small clothing manufacturer, who's main product is Polartec (fleece) blankets and garments received an order from Loungewise a McLean, Virginia based ...
Q&A: Emmett Dunbar and Anjali Farms
Feb 01, 2009; ... Emmett Dunbar, 37, and his wife, Lini Mazumdar , are the owners and founders of Anjali Farms, an organic farm in Londonderry, as well as Lotus Moon Medicinals, which creates handmade herbal and medicinal body products from the farm, such as teas, bug repellents, salves, balms, creams, bath salts ...
Stowe Resort embroiled in suits
Feb 01, 2009; ... A number of lawsuits have been filed against the Stowe Mountain Lodge. The litigants signed contracts to buy accommodations in the resort's new housing complex reported several Vermont newspapers in early January. The lodge is part of the $400 million project that is Spruce Peak at Stowe ...
Lamoille County hoping to be into it up to their eyes
Feb 01, 2009; ... In a county where tourism and recreation are by far the most significant sectors of the economy, a strong winter ski season is essential. Ed Stahl at the Stowe Area Association pulls no punches when looking at economic prospects here. "If we had a choice of a soft economy or lots of snow, we'd ...
Falling demand from Canada leads to exports plunge
Feb 01, 2009; ... As the financial crisis unfolded around the world last fall and economic growth deteriorated, it became gradually clearer that Vermont companies would not be spared a profound and prolonged decline in the foreign demand for their products. According to the latest trade statistics, the demand for ...
The "i-s" have it: Competition returns to mobile telecom
Feb 01, 2009; ... The iPhone's arrival in Vermont does qualify as a big deal, tech analysts say, but they see it as only the glitziest example of the broader options now available in a small market that had previously attracted little competition among the titans of telecom. "It's a real positive thing ...
FairPoint on its own as competition builds
Feb 01, 2009; ... Even if it successfully completes a complex "cutover" of computer systems by mid-February, FairPoint Communications will still be facing formidable challenges in operating its landline telephone network in Vermont. "They understand they bought a legacy system," says Bill Shuttleworth, ...
A grocer without groceries: Rich Tarrant and MyWebGrocer
Feb 01, 2009; ... Back in the Wild West days of the Internet, before the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, new e-businesses were flying off the IPO shelves. They were supplying your pet with toys, booking your vacations and helping you trade stocks. The general feeling was, "If it moves and makes money in a ...
Vermont's news industry confronts the future
Feb 01, 2009; ... It's hardly news any more when a newspaper reports on its own cutbacks and layoffs. As in previous recessions, cashed-out businesses find it easy to cut back on advertising (after all, who has money to buy anything?) and those cuts, like toxins ascending the food chain, summate as major losses ...