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A new telecommunications company run “by Bermudians for Bermudians” is setting out to gain a share of the domestic market dominated by larger firms.
LiveNet Bermuda is initially focusing on home internet and voice service for home phones and cellphon...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
A Bermuda shipping and storage firm is celebrating 60 years in business.
Bermuda Forwarders — founded as a two-strong customs clearance operation in 1955 — now has 50 full-time employees and has expanded into data storage, moving services and transpo...
DATE: Jun 22, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A new beauty and massage centre has opened for business.
Essentials@The Club — in the former Bersalon beauty salon — specialises in Thai treatments, some based on ancient techniques from the East.
The new venture is the brainchild of Gordon Gibbons a...
DATE: Jun 18, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A Bermuda investment company is banking on an upturn in the economy as its revenue and market value both fell year on year.
Bermuda First Investment Company — which holds shares in Island firms — posted its results for the nine months to the end of M...
DATE: Jun 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A supply store for the creative arts has moved to a new location.
But the DNA Creative Shoppe, run by husband-and-wife team of artist Lexy Correia and graphic designer and digital artist Dion Correia, has only moved a few yards at 129 Front Street to...
DATE: Jun 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Insurance firm BF&M earned more than $8 million in the first quarter of the year.
The firm reported earnings of $8.2 million to the end of March — representing an annualised return on shareholders’ equity of 13 per cent.
The figure was $3.2 million d...
DATE: Jun 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A company linked to a top Island law firm is to launch a new corporate services training programme for students.
Conyers Dill & Pearman-affiliated Codan Services will run the scheme, which gives graduates or those close to qualifying a head-start int...
DATE: Jun 12, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Nearly 50 aspiring entrepreneurs are to get the chance to learn how to set up their own businesses.
The Youth Enterprise Initiative (YEI) BizCamp will run twice over the summer in two seven-day sessions.
The students, aged between 13 and 18, will lea...
DATE: Jun 12, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A jewellery designer has teamed up with a vintage clothing firm in a new venture.
Eleanor Patton, of Bermuda Rocks, has joined forces with vintage clothing company Dolly Pop Bermuda’s Alice Bennett-Johnson to open a pop-up shop on Front Street.
But M...
DATE: Jun 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Hotel operators are likely to look at alternative ways of power generation, such as installing solar panels, in the wake of electricity price hikes proposed by Belco last week.
Commercial users face an average increase of 15 per cent on their monthly...
DATE: Jun 08, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
