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Vol. 46, # 42 | October 15, 2007
 
Cover Story
 
 

For a specialty food company, a distribution contract with Whole Foods Market Inc. represents the Holy Grail. In her search to find it, Margaret West left a career with the church.

West’s Tokeneke Foods has begun selling gourmet cookies at Whole Foods Markets in the New England region, hand-making them in a small Bridgeport kitchen, along with frozen appetizers and bar snacks.

 

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Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. is quietly shopping in the Danbury, Conn., area once more for a corporate headquarters, sources say.

As its parent company restructures, GMAC Mortgage LLC is closing a Shelton loan office at a cost of 60 jobs.

 

Earlier this week

 

  
 
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Todd Ingersoll is one of those guys you would buy a used car from – if you could find him on the car lot that is. He really isn’t there or in the new-car showroom much anymore. He’s too busy running his Saturn of Danbury and Saturn of Watertown dealerships – Saturn calls them retail stores – or helping run a minority-owned Chevrolet/Cadillac/Saturn showroom in Harlem, or sitting on the board of directors of the General Motors Minority Dealers Association.

 

Golfers always expect to encounter a hazard or two as they make their way around a golf course.

 

A Manhattan private equity firm and an India-based outsourcing firm have established offices in Stamford as employers continue to buoy the region’s real estate market despite the problems in residential mortgages.

 

On the 10th anniversary of a model program, Xerox Corp. has donated $1 million to create engineering “academies” in 110 high schools across the country.

 

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has sold seven helicopters to Bristow Group Inc., a United Kingdom company that shuttles personnel and materials to offshore drilling platforms.

 

In a $110 million contract, Canada-based CGI Group Inc. will continue running Oce North America’s information systems for the next 10 years.

 

Two Manhattan companies recently moved to Fairfield County.

 

Despite signs of continued business expansion, 51 percent of respondents to an August survey of Connecticut businesses expect the national economy to worsen, up from 25 percent in the second quarter.

 

A Texas-based property management company has spent $51 million to purchase Maritime Yards, a residential complex in South Norwalk.

 

A jury in Bridgeport awarded a widow and her husband’s estate $22.5 million in a wrongful death suit, believed the largest such verdict in Connecticut history.

 

Gov. M. Jodi Rell established an economic advisory council led by Don Klepper-Smith, chief economist and director of research at DataCore Partners L.L.C.

 
     
     

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