2012

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• 7/23/2012 Gov. Malloy: Back9Network will Cover the Links from Hartford

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that a new company has established its corporate headquarters and will launch a multi-platform cable golf network in Hartford, a project that is expected to create hundreds of jobs over time and breathe new life into the downtown area.

• 6/17/2012 Gov. Malloy: Small Business Express Program Leading the Way to a Stronger Economy

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that five small businesses from around the state are receiving assistance through the state's Small Business Express Program (EXP). To encourage business expansion and job growth, the program was part of the bipartisan Jobs Bill passed during last year's jobs special session.

• 1/17/2012 Gov. Malloy: First Company Funded by Small Business Express Program to Double its Workforce

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the first company to be funded by the state’s new Small Business Express Program (EXP) – South Windsor-based Oxford Performance Materials, LLC – will allow the company to double its workforce by adding 12 positions.

• 2/15/2012 Gov. Malloy: Small Businesses are Crucial to Growing Our Economy

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that five additional small businesses have qualified for grants through the state’s Small Business Express Program (EXP) to expand their businesses and create jobs.

• 6/18/2012 Gov. Malloy: Small Business Program Cultivating Economic Growth

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced five Connecticut small businesses in Ashford, Bethel, Clinton, Cromwell and Rocky Hill are receiving assistance through the state's Small Business Express Program (EXP).

• 10/5/2011 Gov. Malloy Announces Launch of Startup Connecticut

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today joined with business leaders to announce the launch of Startup Connecticut, a new initiative that will help to reinvent Connecticut by assisting high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the state. Startup Connecticut will be part of a national network of state and regional efforts coordinated by the Startup America Partnership, the national organization working to help young companies grow in order to create jobs in the country. Connecticut becomes the third state in the nation to adopt its own regional initiative.

• 6/19/2012 Gov. Malloy: Small Business Express Program is Helping Connecticut Businesses Grow

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced five Connecticut small businesses are receiving assistance through the state's Small Business Express Program (EXP). The program was created as a part of the bipartisan Jobs Bill passed during last year's jobs special session to encourage business expansion and job growth.

• 3/26/2012 Gov. Malloy: Small Business Program Assists Expansion & Job Growth

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that five more small businesses in Bridgeport, Cheshire, Marlborough, Middletown and Mystic have qualified for grants through the state’s Small Business Express Program (EXP) to expand their businesses and create jobs.

• 7/5/2012 Gov. Malloy: Connecticut's Small Businesses Growing Jobs

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced five Connecticut small businesses in Norwalk, Stamford, Sterling, Suffield and West Hartford are receiving assistance through the state's Small Business Express Program (EXP) to support their growth and create and retain jobs.

• 9/12/2012 Gov. Malloy Appoints Three to CT Housing Finance Authority Board

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy has appointed three state residents to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA). Kathleen Corbet of New Canaan, Nuala Droney of West Hartford and Richard Orr of West Hartford joined the board at the end of August.

• 1/4/2012 Gov. Malloy: Jackson Laboratory Plans Approved; Connecticut "Ready to Claim Our Share" of $284B Personalized Medicine Industry

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that a final agreement between the state and Jackson Laboratory (JAX) has been fully negotiated and approved by the relevant boards. To commemorate the event, the Governor hosted a ceremonial bill signing at the UConn Health Center (UCHC), the site where the new billion-dollar, personalized medicine laboratory that will create more than 6,800 permanent jobs will be located.

• 9/25/2012 Gov. Malloy: Infinity Music Hall Coming to Hartford

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has requested $1.3 million in bond funding to assist Norfolk's Infinity Music Hall and Bistro in opening a second, larger location in the Front Street District of Hartford.

• 6/18/2012 Gov. Malloy Announces Alexion Pharmaceuticals to Expand in New Haven

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that leading biopharmaceutical company Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will establish its global headquarters at a new facility to be built in New Haven by 2015. The state will support the project through the First Five program, Governor Malloy's signature economic initiative that is creating jobs by spurring large-scale business development projects. The company will relocate its existing Connecticut workforce of more than 350 employees to the facility once it is complete and expects to create 200-300 new jobs in the state by 2017. In addition, hundreds of jobs in service industries are expected to be created as a result of Alexion's move to New Haven.

• 12/12/2012 Gov. Malloy Announces New Tenant at Colt Gateway

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Foley Carrier Services, LLC has relocated its operations from Glastonbury to a 17,000 square foot space in the South Armory of Colt Gateway in Hartford. The move brings 110 jobs to Hartford immediately, with plans to add up to 70 new jobs within three years.

• 7/26/2012 Gov Malloy New Distribution Center in Windsor will Create 200 Jobs

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Dollar Tree, Inc., which recently acquired a site in Windsor, will build a one-million-square-foot, $104 million distribution center and hire a minimum of 200 people within the next five years.