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UNION COUNTY OFFERS FREE NEW SERIES TO HELP LOCAL BUSINESSES
MyCentralJersey.com January 23, 2012 UNION COUNTY – If you own or manage a business in Union County, or if you are planning to start one, come to the free Union County Means Business networking break…
Read More >NJ AND CITIBANK OFFER FOREIGN TRADE LOANS
By Hugh Morley/The Record January 22, 2012 * State authority teams with Citibank to offer low-interest loans to help businesses expand international reach. Small businesses looking for help in going …
Read More >LABOR DEPT. REVS ITS NEW SEARCH ENGINE, SAYS IT WILL HELP JOBSEEKERS CUSTOMIZE RESUMES
By Stacy Jones/Star-Ledger January 20, 2012 Landing an interview and landing in the recycling bin can depend on how job applicants sells their skills and experience. People who have been unemployed f…
Read More >RUTGERS ECONOMIST JAMES HUGHES SAYS NJ REGAINING ITS FOOTING
By Michael L. Diamond/Asbury Park Press January 12, 2012 New Jersey’s private sector for a decade failed to keep up with even the nation’s anemic job growth. But on pace in 2011 for its best performa…
Read More >BANK PROVIDES $50,000 GRANT TO HELP STABILIZE PERTH AMBOY NEIGHBORHOOD
NJToday.net January 12, 2012 PERTH AMBOY – Wells Fargo announced today that it will provide a $50,000 grant to the Jewish Renaissance Foundation (JRF) of Perth Amboy through its Leading the Way Home …
Read More >NEW JERSEY BANKS EXPECT STABLE EMPLOYMENT IN SECTOR, SLOW GROWTH FOR ECONOMY
By Ed Beeson/Star-Ledger January 10, 2012 The New Jersey banking sector this year looks to be a lot more stable than its investment banking counterpart across the Hudson River. According to a new sur…
Read More >SURVEY: HALF OF SMALL BUSINESSES PLAN HIRES IN 2012
By Jared Kaltwasser/NJBIZ January 3, 2012 Small-business hiring decreased slightly in 2011, according to a new survey, but small-business owners are cautiously optimistic they’ll be able to reverse t…
Read More >NEW WEBSITE OFFERS N.J. NONPROFITS ONE-STOP ACCESS TO STATE GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
By Tom Hester Sr./New Jersey Newsroom December 30, 2011 New Jersey’s nonprofit organizations now have one-stop access to state resources with the creation of a new state Department of State website, …
Read More >EDA STRENGTHENS LENDING PROGRAMS, FORMS NEW PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS
Action Demonstrates Christie Administration’s Commitment to Growing Small Businesses in the Garden State TRENTON, N.J. (Dec. 13, 2011) – In support of the Christie Administration’s commitment to econ…
Read More >NONPROFIT CENTER HOPES TO CREATE 800 NEW JOBS
By Bill Bowman/Asbury Park Press December 5, 2011 More than twice the number of jobs originally expected could be created during the next five years by a nonprofit organization formed to replace the …
Read More >IMPORTANT UPDATE REGARDING TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR COMPETITIVE SOLICITATION
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Read More >MANUFACTURER RELOCATING HEADQUARTERS OPERATIONS TO N.J.
By Melinda Caliendo/NJBIZ December 2, 2011 With manufacturing plants in New Jersey, Wisconsin and Arkansas, RathGibson announced it is moving some of its headquarters operations from Lincolnshire, Il…
Read More >STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICIAL ASKS LOCAL BUSINESSES TO ROOT FOR NJ
By Sergio Bichao/Home News Tribune December 1, 2011 The head of the state’s so-called “bank for business” called on Somerset County business leaders to become cheerleaders for New Jersey in an effort…
Read More >SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS WILL TEAM WITH BUSINESS ACTION CENTER
By Melinda Caliendo/NJBIZ November 29, 2011 The New Jersey Small Business Development Centers announced Tuesday a collaboration with the state’s Business Action Center, in which the NJSBDC will be ab…
Read More >THREE N.J. NONPROFITS AMONG RECIPIENTS AS TD BANK FOUNDATION AWARDS $2.5M IN GRANTS
By Mary Ann Bourbeau/NJBIZ November 29, 2011 Three New Jersey charitable organizations were among 25 chosen by the TD Charitable Foundation in its sixth annual Housing for Everyone grant competition….
Read More >REALOGY ANNOUNCES FUTURE HEADQUARTERS LOCATION
Residential Real Estate Leader to Relocate to an Environmentally Efficient Facility in Madison, New Jersey, by Early 2013 MADISON, NJ–(Marketwire – Nov 28, 2011) – Realogy Corporation, a leading prov…
Read More >MORE NEW JERSEY COMPANIES SAY STATE IS A GOOD PLACE TO DO BUSINESS
By Kevin Post/Atlantic City Press November 26, 2011 Business owners think New Jersey still has a long way to go before it’s a good state in which to do business, but they were much more positive abou…
Read More >STRONG BLACK FRIDAY SALES HELPED SMALL JERSEY SHORE BUSINESSES
By David P. Willis/Asbury Park Press November 28, 2011 While people poured through the automatic doors of big stores like Target and Best Buy on Black Friday, the start of a holiday shopping weekend,…
Read More >INVESTORS BANCORP SWEETENS DEAL FOR BROOKLYN BANK
By Richard Newman/The Record November 24, 2011 * Short Hills-based Investors says path cleared for takeover. Investors Bancorp Inc., which has been expanding rapidly in North Jersey, has sweetened its…
Read More >EDA RENEWS PARTNERSHIP WITH UCEDC TO SUPPORT CHRISTIE ADMINISTRATION EFFORTS TO SPUR SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
TRENTON, N.J. (Nov. 22, 2011) –Enhancing Governor Chris Christie’s commitment to economic growth and entrepreneurial development, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) recently entered i…
Read More >BUSINESS OWNER SPEAKS HIGHLY OF GUADAGNO AS 100-COMPANY TOUR CLOSES
By Mary Ann Bourbeau/NJBIZ November 21, 2011 A visit to Switlik Parachute, in Trenton, last week was the final stop for Kim Guadagno’s 100 Business Initiative, which has given the lieutenant governor…
Read More >NORTH JERSEY COMMUNITY BANK RIDES TECH INVESTMENT TO STRONG RETURNS
By Melinda Caliendo/NJBIZ November 21, 2011 North Jersey Community Bank has been keeping up with larger institutions in integrating technologically advanced consumer products into the bank’s offering…
Read More >ECONOMISTS SAY NEW JERSEY, REGION POSITIONED FOR RECOVERY
By Kevin Post/Atlantic City Press November 19, 2011 TRENTON — Prominent economists say New Jersey is a bit better positioned for the slow recovery facing the nation, and two see additional reasons fo…
Read More >MICROLOANS GIVE OVERLOOKED SMALL BUSINESSES ROOM TO GROW
By Patrick May/San Jose Mercury News November 19, 2011 SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Caitlin McShane looks down San Francisco’s Mission Street, she doesn’t see taco joints and bodegas bulging with ripe fru…
Read More >NJ UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS AND JOBS INCREASE AS STATE SHARES IN SLOWLY GROWING U.S. ECONOMY
By Eliot Caroom/Star-Ledger November 17, 2011 New Jersey’s unemployment rate dropped to 9.1 percent last month as private businesses added 4,000 jobs, state officials announced today. It was the thir…
Read More >STATE APPROVES $60 MILLION TO GROW TECH/BIO TECH INDUSTRY IN NEW JERSEY
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Read More >ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY CHIEF URGES LOCAL BUSINESSES TO REMAIN POSITIVE
By Bridget Clerkin/Trenton Times November 14, 2011 What’s the best way local business leaders can help New Jersey? By becoming the state’s biggest cheerleaders, according to Caren Franzini, CEO of th…
Read More >TIM LIZURA, EDA SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, SPEAKS TO ABC-7 ABOUT EDA’S AVAILABLE FINANCING TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND NOT-FOR-PROFITS
Click here to watch EDA Senior Vice President of Finance & Development Tim Lizura’s interview with ABC-7 about EDA’s available financing to small businesses and not-for-profit organizations….
Read More >SMALL BANKS MAKE HIGH PERCENT OF SMALL BUSINESS LENDING, STUDY FINDS
By Ed Beeson/Star-Ledger November 4, 2011 It may take a small bank to lend to a small business. A study of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data finds that many of New Jersey’s smallest banks devote t…
Read More >SUSTAINABLE JERSEY ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Trenton, NJ (November 1, 2011) – Sustainable Jersey announced today its 2011/2012 Board of Trustees led by Chairperson, Pam Mount, who is a Lawrence Township Councilwoman and the former Chair of the N…
Read More >MORE WOMEN HOLD TOP BANKING JOBS, BUT NUMBERS ARE STILL LOW
By Richard Newman/The Record October 30, 2011 When Michelle Y. Lee, Wells Fargo’s regional president for retail and business banking in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, was growing up in Newar…
Read More >EDA ENHANCES PROGRAM TO EXPAND ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR NEW JERSEY SMALL BUSINESSES
TRENTON, N.J. (Oct. 27, 2011) – As part of the Christie Administration’s ongoing effort to support small business growth and community investment, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) h…
Read More >N.J. BUSINESS OWNERS ANTICIPATE IMPROVING SALES, MORE HIRES
By Phil Gregory/WHYY Newsworks October 27, 2011 Business owners in New Jersey say they are more optimistic about the future. Seventy percent of the business executives surveyed by the New Jersey Cham…
Read More >AT CHAMBER BREAKFAST, BUSINESS OWNERS TAKE UPBEAT TONE
By Melinda Caliendo/NJBIZ October 25, 2011 The mood was decidedly optimistic at the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce Economic Outlook Breakfast this morning. “People in the state of New Jersey ar…
Read More >NEW BRUNSWICK-BASED INTERSECT FUND HELPS LOW-INCOME ENTREPRENEURS
By Bob Makin/myCentralJersey.com October 25, 2011 CENTRAL JERSEY — New Brunswick increasingly is a tale of two cities: development and opportunity for some, employment challenges and other economic h…
Read More >FREE FINANCIAL SEMINAR FOR BUSINESSES SET
Clifton Journal October 21, 2011 Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders announced that Passaic County Department of Economic Development and William Paterson University Small Business Development…
Read More >ANOTHER NEW JERSEY BANK PAYS OFF TARP
By Richard Newman/The Record October 20, 2011 Pascack Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Pascack Community Bank, said Wednesday that it has repaid the $3.9 million it received in 2009 from the fed…
Read More >NORTH JERSEY COMMUNITY BANK EXPANDS TO MONMOUTH COUNTY
By Richard Newman/The Record October 19, 2011 Fast-growing North Jersey Community Bank in Englewood Cliffs is expanding its reach beyond North Jersey. CEO Frank Sorrentino hosted a ribbon cutting cer…
Read More >STATE OFFICIALS CLOSE CRANFORD-BASED FIRST STATE BANK OVER POOR ASSET QUALITY
By Eliot Caroom/Star-Ledger October 17, 2011 State officials yesterday closed Cranford-based First State Bank and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced Northfield Bank of Staten Island …
Read More >DESPITE CRANFORD LENDER’S FAILURE, N.J.-BASED BANKS STILL STRONG, OBSERVERS SAY
By Beth Fitzgerald/NJBIZ October 17, 2011 The failure Friday of the two-branch First State Bank, in Cranford, and its takeover by Northfield Bank was the 79th nationwide for the Federal Deposit Insur…
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