Small Business

Oxford Performance Materials First To Get Small Business Express Funds

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

Oxford Performance Materials (OPM), a biomedical company that produces plastic medical implant devices, recently moved into a newly leased facility with space for polymer processing and additional fabrication technologies in South Windsor.  State funding will be used to make facility improvements and purchase machinery and equipment.

“Small businesses are critical to reinventing Connecticut,” said Governor Malloy.  “Little by little, we must harness the can-do attitude of our state’s small companies, so that their success will spur our state’s recovery.  It was with this in mind that we created the Small Business Express Program.  When our small businesses succeed, Connecticut wins.” [Read More...]

The Connecticut Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is offering an opportunity for all food stores and pharmacies to apply for WIC authorization from January 3, 2012 – January 31, 2012.  Authorization is required for stores to be able to accept WIC checks and serve Connecticut participants in the WIC Program. 

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant’s and Children (commonly known as the WIC Program) is the nation’s largest supplemental nutritional provider for children in America.  WIC serves children to age five, including roughly 50% of all infants born in the United States, and 61% of WIC participants reside in families with incomes below the poverty level. WIC helps to ensure infants’ and children’s normal growth, reduces levels of anemia, increases immunization rates, improves access to regular health care and social services and improves diets.  In Connecticut, WIC serves approximately 58, 000 people.  From a vendor prospective, the State WIC Program currently authorizes approximately 500 grocery stores (large and small) and 112 pharmacies (both chain and independent), and 47 farms that redeem WIC checks exclusively for fresh fruits and vegetables. [Read More...]