CSIT Awards $3M to 41 New Jersey-Based Start-Ups through Round 3 Catalyst and Clean Tech Seed Grant Programs
NOTICE OF CCRC BOARD MEETING
Adding to Robust Suite of Clean Energy Programs, NJEDA Board Approves Garden State C-PACE Program
NJEDA Expands NJ Cool Eligibility Requirements
NJEDA, Kean University & ICIC Partner to Bring National Education Program for Underserved Construction Contractors to New Jersey
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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 >NOTICE OF FORT MONMOUTH ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION AUTHORITY SPECIAL MEETING
A special meeting of the FMERA Board has been scheduled for Monday, December 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm at the Tinton Falls Municipal Building, 556 Tinton Avenue, Tinton Falls, NJ. No formal action will be t…
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 >NOTICE OF FORT MONMOUTH ECONOMIC REVITALIZTION AUTHORITY MEETING
A meeting of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority has been scheduled for Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7:00 pm at the Eatontown Municipal Building, 47 Broad Street, Eatontown, NJ 07724…
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 >NOTICE OF NEW JERSEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD MEETING
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s next public Board Meeting will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 36 West State St., Trenton, NJ 08625. A copy of the proposed a…
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…
Read More >BANK OF AMERICA HIRES SMALL-BUSINESS BANKERS AS IT CUTS WALL STREET JOBS
By Kirsten Grind/Portfolio.com October 14, 2011 If you were waiting for a sign that small business—and not Wall Street—is the economic growth engine of the United States, here it is. Bank of America …
Read More >NJ CREDIT UNIONS CAMPAIGNING TO RAISE BUSINESS LENDING LIMIT
By Richard Newman/The Record October 14, 2011 New Jersey’s credit unions, locked in a perennial turf war with banks, ramped up their marketing efforts this week to present themselves as potential job…
Read More >NORTH JERSEY NON-PROFITS GET HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS
By Harvey Lipman/The Record October 14, 2011 Eleven non-profits in Bergen and Passaic counties received federal grants of as much as $75,000 each to be used to improve security at their properties, t…
Read More >CHRISTIE ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES FUNDING TO SPUR SMALL BUSINESS LENDING AND JOB CREATION IN NEW JERSEY
TRENTON, NJ – Governor Chris Christie today announced that the State of New Jersey has been approved by the U.S. Department of Treasury for $33.8 million in funding through the State Small Business Cr…
Read More >FINANCIAL PLANNING ESSENTIAL FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
By Dan Serra/McClatchy-Tribune News Service October 12, 2011 Small businesses are the lifeblood of the American economy. And the people who run them are the heart that pumps out successful stories. B…
Read More >PARTNERSHIP FOR ACTION WORKS TO KEEP GOYA FOODS IN NEW JERSEY
TRENTON, N.J. (Oct. 11, 2011) – The Board of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) today approved an award to Goya Foods under the Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Program to encourage the c…
Read More >CREDIT UNIONS AIM MARKETING AT DISSATISFIED BANK CUSTOMERS
By Jared Kaltwasser/NJBIZ October 11, 2011 The head of a North Jersey credit union says increasing consumer frustration with banks is helping credit unions gain a greater foothold in the Garden State…
Read More >HISPANIC OWNER OF PATERSON COMPANY WINS SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
By Richard Newman/The Record October 6, 2011 Paterson small-business owner Odilo Vazquez, 66, emigrated from Galicia, Spain, to Newark more than 40 years ago to pursue the American dream. He earned a…
Read More >LT. GOV. GUADAGNO TOUTS N.J. BUSINESSES IN VISITS TO TWO NORTH JERSEY FIRMS
By Karen Sudol/The Record October 3, 2011 Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno continued to show the state government’s support for Garden State businesses by visiting two companies in North Jersey on Monday as …
Read More >PRINCETON POWER SYSTEMS UNVEILS ‘AN ISLAND IN THE SUN’ DEMONSTRATION SITE, NEW MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN NEW JERSEY
PRINCETON, N.J. (Sept. 29, 2011) – Flanked by industry colleagues and key dignitaries, Princeton Power Systems (PPS) yesterday unveiled its ‘An Island in the Sun’ demonstration site that boasts a 200 …
Read More >NOTICE OF FORT MONMOUTH ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION AUTHORITY MEETING
A meeting of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 7:00 pm at the Tinton Falls Municipal Building, 556 Tinton Avenue, Tinton Falls, …
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