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Community Farm Ready For Start-Up — December 4, 2009 - The Westport Board of Finance (BOF) unanimously voted Wednesday to make a positive recommendation to the Board of Selectmen regarding a lease agreement between the town and Westport GVI Town Farm Inc. to create an organic community farm ...
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Connecticut Town Starts by Banning Plastic Bags — October 11, 2009 - In September 2008, Westport became the first town in Connecticut to ban plastic shopping bags. Today, residents say, not only has the ban been successful but it has inspired a broader environmental awareness ... |
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Green Village Initiative Receives Awards — April, 2009 - Green Village Initiative (“GVI”), the local environmental/community organization founded and funded by Dan, has received the 2009 We Green Westport Award. This award, given annually by the Town of Westport ... |
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Economic Life/Grace of Innovating: E. F. Schumacher Society — January 28, 2009 - In October the Society bought a house for staff and interns. It was not a simple transaction, rather a complex and marvelous adventure weaving our work lives together with the story of a small manufacturing company ... |
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SVN Innovation Award Sponsor: Main Street Resources — January 2009 - Main Street Resources is a Social Venture Network Innovation Award Sponsor. Social Venture Network is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business
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Mavericks on Main Street — By Ellyn Spragins - May 2004 - Two financiers are rewriting the rules of Wall Street by recruiting entrepreneurs to invest their money and expertise in other entrepreneurs ... |
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Angels
from Main Street — By Robert S. Levin - July 15, 2004
- Who better to invest in tomorrow’s growing companies
than the savvy individuals who built today’s? That’s
the novel idea behind one Connecticut private equity firm ...
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For
Main Street Resources, It's People — By Joe Christinat
- November 3, 2003 - Perhaps the last thing you'd expect from
a group of accountants and economists is for them to form a
people- oriented private equity firm. Throw in ...
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Westport
firm invests the old fashioned way — By David J Glenn
- October 13, 2003 - The offices of Main Street Resources are
physically located on Wright Street in Westport. But philosophically,
the equity investment ... |
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12
U.S. CEOs Meet In Jerusalem — Pre-Spring 2004 - Dan
Levinson, of Main Street Resources, a Connecticut- based company,
his partner, Marshall Kiev, and twelve of their investors and
operating partners, recently traveled to ... |
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PORTFOLIO
COMPANY NEWS
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Shopping Spree
— April 2006 - Replacement parts for ground support equipment can come from a number of sources. however, there's more to the equation than simply the supply of GSE parts. OEM or not? It all depends on with whom you ... |
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Best
Acquires Artex — August 2004 - Best Manufacturing Group
LLC has acquired Artex International Inc., a manufacturer and
supplier of textiles and garments for the U.S. textile rental
and hospitality markets. ... |
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The
nuts and bolts of manufacturing — By Laura Ricketson
- July 19, 2004 - Vertex Fasteners has come a long way in its
122-year history. The Pawtucket-based company manufactured nuts
and bolts for weaving machines ... |
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The
Buck Stops Here — By Robert S. Levin - July 15, 2004
- This is not a test or is it? Ever get the feeling; that the
business gods are trying to see what you’re really made
of? Mark Pollack and Michael K. Bloomfield are no doubt ... |
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Vertex
Secures Its Place In R.I. — By Douglas Hadden - May
29, 2004 - PAWTUCKET – Vertex Fasteners has long made a
wide variety of products noted for their ability to keep one
thing securely fastened, with ... |
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