Mercer Business

Ask a Busy Person: Liz Tindall

The group has organized business-oriented luncheons and dinners, hosted seminars and speakers on a wide array of topics, participated in trade shows, and in general been involved in just about every facet of the business community in Mercer County.

Greater Trenton Eitc/Abc

The campaign includes aggressive outreach and workshops hosted by banks and the various social agencies, with more than 30 mobile centers throughout Mercer County to help filers with their tax returns, according to Tarry Truitt, project and communications manager for the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness and co-chair of the coalition. The EITC is a targeted income tax benefit that lessens the burden of payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.

Green Marketing: Every Day Can Be Earth Day

Naturally, their marketing strategy is one of combined strengths, meaning the product has been successful for so long because it is high-quality building material, but it also leaves a lesser impact on the environment - something that competitors are often unable to claim. Hotels and conference centers that opt for electronic materials to cut back on paper materials, use china services instead of paper utensils and dishes, institute linen reuse systems and enforce recycling programs, clearly...

It's All About the Cause

With all of the different ways that Baxter Construction supports HSP, from sponsorship and employee volunteerism, to donations of equipment and supplies, to on-site workers at events, the company is an example to other corporations of how corporate philanthropy can permeate an entire organization and benefit an entire community.

They Can Help You Today at the Ymca

Scattered about the county in urban and suburban settings, several of the Y's are immersed in ambitious expansion plans; the Hamilton YMCA broke ground on a 23,000-square-foot addition last month, while at least two other Y's in Trenton and Hopewell Valley are getting closer to breaking out the ceremonial shovels as they continue to raise funds and present building plans to local planning officials. The Hamilton Y, with 13,000 members, will be working in conjunction with Princeton Health Car...

Shelter From the Storm

The company provides a full suite of direct marketing services including database marketing, printing, lettershop, laser and other personalization, fulfillment, interactive voice response, inbound/outbound telemarketing, and extensive prospect and response analytics.

'Power Hubs...Transit Villages Advancing Inward Migration'

Chris Paladino, president of New Brunswick Development Company (DEVCO), an urban real estate development company responsible for initiating redevelopment projects in New Brunswick, is looking forward to tearing down the seven-acre parking garage across from the train station and converting it into usable office, retail, and housing. The third project revolves around the seven acres of publicly owned parking garage that will he redeveloped into a million square feet of office space, a quarter...

Mercer County's Bankers Deplore Liberal Lending Practices

(2) Add to the mix the current subprime mortgage debacle, the shrinking value of the dollar overseas, record high unemployment figures and housing prices rapidly declining, and the impact on the global financial markets as well as the economy is clear and the outlook grim, at least in the near term. In a move intended to stem inflation and stimulate growth, on March 18, its policy-setting arm, the Federal Open Market Committee, lowered its target for the federal funds rate 75 basis points to...