FAIRFIELD COUNTY
BUSINESS JOURNAL July 7, 2014 | VOL. 50, No. 27
BILL FALLON
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FCBJ this week PLAY BALL A field house rises in Fairfield … 9 GET WELL The Nathaniell Witherell facility in Greenwich marches on … 10
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THAT SPARE BEDROOM Starting a home business involves challenges … 8 FCBUZZ All work and no play makes for dull coworkers … 14
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BUSINESS COUNCIL AND TELECOM CHIEF CONNECT AT ANNUAL MEETING BY BILL FALLON Bfallon@westfairinc.com
THE BUSINESS COUNCIL OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY elevated the bar for annual meetings recently at the Stamford Marriott when, seemingly without effort, it hosted a lunch for 280 executives, provided a national-caliber keynote speaker and attended to parliamentary matters in the span of two hours. Maggie Wilderotter, chairwoman and CEO of Stamford-based Frontier Communications Corp., which serves 30,000 nonurban mar-
kets in 27 states and is acquiring AT&T’s landline business, delivered the keynote address. Among the parliamentary matters, Reyno Giallongo Jr., who heads First County Bank and its 15 branches in Fairfield County as its chairman and CEO, remains atop the Business Council’s board of directors for another three-year term, and accounting firm O’Connor Davies L.L.P., with a Stamford office, remains the council’s auditor. Giallongo opened the event by thanking, in particular, companies assisting the Business Council’s education initiative, » Business Council, page 6
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South Norwalk is hip and booming F.D. Rich Co.’s Sono Pearl Apartments break ground.
n a first-of-its-kind agreement for Westfair Communications Inc., publisher of the Fairfield County Business Journal, the White Plains-based company has entered into a news-sharing agreement with Hearst Connecticut Media Group. Hearst’s properties include regional dailies the Connecticut Post based in Bridgeport, The News-Times based in Danbury, The Advocate in Stamford and Greenwich Time, plus five local weeklies. “This is a great opportunity to better serve our readers with more news and more information about the economy of our region,” said Executive Editor Barbara T. Roessner, who oversees editorial content for Hearst Connecticut’s news operations. “Business coverage is essential to our communities.” Under the terms of the agreement, bylined articles from the Fairfield County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal and WAG magazine will now reach Hearst’s 500,000 Connecticut readers. In turn, articles written by Hearst staffers will be featured in Westfair publications. The Westfair Communications group also includes HVBiz, a section of the Westchester County Business Journal dedicated to businesses and events in the Hudson Valley counties of Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Ulster and Dutchess. Westfair publications reach a cumulative 150,000 regional readers. » Business Journal, page 6