Vermont Business Magazine back issues from February 2006:
The town manager as CEO: Brattleboro's Jerry Remillard
Feb 01, 2006; ... When he's seated at his desk and looking out the window, Jerry Remillard can see the house where he grew up. "I always tell people I didn't get very far," he jokes. But the truth lies somewhere else. With an $11.5 million budget, 140 employees and a job consumed by budgets, ...
Vermont ranks first in trade openness
Feb 01, 2006; ... Driven by technological progress, strong gains in productivity, reduction in costs and quality improvements provide an unparallel advantage to companies selling their goods abroad. According to the findings of a recent survey conducted by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, the United States ...
HMC Advertising gets a women's touch
Feb 01, 2006; ... HMC Advertising in Stowe, which company founders, Brian Harwood and Brad Moses handed over the management of to Anne Loecher and Veronica Williams a year ago, is growing. According to Loecher, "we have added to our core capabilities and are expanding our web capabilities." HMC, said ...
JDK thinks out of the Xbox
Feb 01, 2006; ... JDK Design in Burlington is riding a wave of success in design into 2006. Last year the company had a major coup as its design expertise was a major component in the launch of the new Microsoft Xbox 360 game, which premiered in November. According to David Kemp, who handles marketing for ...
KSV takes off
Feb 01, 2006; ... The advertising industry in Vermont has changed dramatically, says Yoram Samets managing partner at Kelliher Samets Volk, a Burlington advertising agency in its 29th year in business. This, he believes, is a reflection of the general business climate in the state. Samets sees an ongoing ...
Vermont Conference to Address Energy-Saving Buildings
Feb 01, 2006; ... This winter, as Vermonters look for ways to reduce energy costs, a Vermont conference will offer solutions. On February 8-9, 2006, Efficiency Vermont's Better Buildings by Design Conference will present construction and building design professionals with training and information about creating ...
Building or Renovating?
Feb 01, 2006; ... When Middlebury Natural Food Co-Op decided to construct a new building, owners wanted to make it as energy-efficient as possible, within their budget. Building owners worked with Efficiency Vermont and project designers to identify energy-efficient approaches that will save about $13,000 in ...
Bright Ideas
Feb 01, 2006; ... Lighting is a significant part of business energy costs," says Heather Condon, Project Manager at Efficiency Vermont. "These costs can be reduced with cost-effective energy- efficient lighting. Today's fixture styles give owners and designers great flexibility in matching energysaving lighting ...
Tips for Reducing Your Energy Bills
Feb 01, 2006; ... While Vermont's top construction and design professionals attending the Better Buildings By Design 2006 Conference learn energy-saving techniques to help you with equipment upgrades, construction and renovations, there are simple actions that you can take to reduce energy use and costs on a ...
Hurry Up And Wait
Feb 01, 2006; ... High-speed Internet connections are becoming more prevalent in Vermont as the percentage of homes and businesses relying on dialup access steadily shrinks. But Vermont appears to lag significantly behind the nation as a whole in the accelerating switchover from slower telephone-based Internet ...
Cutting federal program could hurt rural service
Feb 01, 2006; ... The roughly 65,000 Vermont customers of local independent telephone companies could see their phone bills balloon if Congress approves pending proposals to weaken or eliminate a subsidy program for rural telecom providers. A national coalition of small independent phone companies warns ...
RFID: This really could change everything
Feb 01, 2006; ... A decade-old technology known as radio frequency identification (RFID) is starting to take off with the same burst of acceleration that propelled bar codes into the American marketplace in the 1980s. And at least a few Vermont companies are getting in on the action. Like bar codes, RFID ...
Comcast brings more broadband to the hinterland
Feb 01, 2006; ... Nine of every 10 Vermonters would be able by the end of next year to receive cable television programming and high-speed Internet service under a deal with Comcast Corp recently approved by state regulators. The agreed-upon extensions of cable lines will take place in every Vermont ...
RFID: Be careful what you wish for
Feb 01, 2006; ... Radio frequency identification technology holds the promise of greatly enhanced efficiency in product distribution and inventory tracking, but civil liberties advocates are warning that RFID also poses threats to individual privacy. Vermont's senior senator is leading the effort to alert ...
Sovernet sale still leaves several local ISPs
Feb 01, 2006; ... The pending sale of Sovernet to a company based in the Virgin Islands Massachusetts marks the end of the Vermont ownership of one of the state's pioneering Internet service providers. The Bellow Falls company's purchase by Atlantic Tele-Network, if approved by state and federal ...
Just try finding a trend in this busy place
Feb 01, 2006; ... Lamoille County has experienced a surge of interest in high speed internet service in the county's smallest towns this past year. Along with a major power line upgrade in the works bringing more electricity to Stowe, along with a healthy wellness industry, and a booming cultural and arts ...
Rigel Instruments carves its own niche
Feb 01, 2006; ... Where would a member of Dolly Parton's band go to buy a high end mandolin? For that matter, who sells old country stars such as Tom T. Hall a virtuoso instrument? If you guessed Rigel Instruments in Cambridge, you're right. As one of the top five manufacturers of high-end mandolins in ...
Stowe's power causes static
Feb 01, 2006; ... With Stowe Mountain Resort in a building boom, and having added new high tech lifts and snow making equipment, power in the Stowe area Is maxing out. Add to that a transmission system that required upgrades 30 years ago and still hasn't go them, and Stowe has one charged up issue on its ...
Q&A: Ian and Margo Baldwin Chelsea Green Publishing
Feb 01, 2006; ... Chelsea Green Publishing was established by Ian and Margo Baldwin in 1984, with the publication of The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giano. Today, Chelsea Green is considered the major publisher of books on sustainable living. Ian, 67, served as CEO from the company's beginning until the ...