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Windows on the World
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Business New Haven
7/9/2001
By: BNH
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Each year in Business New Haven's annual "Report on the Region," we typically profile the latest business news and trends in each of our six market areas - New Haven, the shoreline, Waterbury, the Valley, Meriden/Wallingford/Cheshire and greater Bridgeport/Fairfield.
This year we took a different approach. We decided instead to take a look at an individual company in each area whose triumphs and travails we thought best exemplified its home community.
You can't discuss the development boom of the lower Naugatuck River valley, without taking into account its prime mover and shaker, the aforementioned Bob Scinto. Likewise, as New Haven seeks to hang its hat on biotechnology, a closer look at Science Park stalwart Genaissance and its remarkable founder and CEO, Gualberto Ruano, seemed logical.
Filtration giant Cuno has helped ease Meriden's evolution from old-line manufacturing into the New Economy. Similarly, young entrepreneur A.J. Wasserstein of ArchivesOne was deliberate in his selection of Waterbury for the Brass City's skilled workforce eager for a renewed productivity in the wake of a management decline.
Despite its June 29 "restructuring" announcement, Internet kiosk industry leader Netkey, founded in New Haven but now in Branford, typifies the shoreline's growing economic importance to the larger region. Finally, although we don't intend to suggest that Bridgeport is staking its future on minor-league hockey, the Park City's experience with a new baseball facility has been nothing short of remarkable. So perhaps we should take the hockey boosters at their word.
Do we mean to imply that these half-dozen companies are the best and the brightest in their respective markets? Not really. But we hope readers can see the opportunities and challenges each community presents to business through the unique prism of each of these six.
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