Name:
Pre-School Readers
Location:
Sea Girt, NJ
Lisa Vidola took the entrepreneurial plunge when she started her business, Preschool Readers. She looked to UCEDC for help in taking it to the next level.
Name:
Jonathan Senior Care
Location:
Cedar Knolls, NJ
Gwen is dedicated to making her dream of a patient-centered dementia care facility a reality. The judges of our 2017 Quick Pitch competition are believers as they awarded her the top spot.
Name:
PuroClean Restoration Services
Location:
Kenilworth, NJ
When Robin Hoy, co-owner of PuroClean Restoration Services in Kenilworth decided to take advantage of UCEDC’s limited time offer of a 0% loan for women business owners (made possible by Investors Bank and the Tory Burch Foundation), she intended to use the…
Name:
Farmers Insurance
Location:
Ocean Township
Like millions of Americans, Fabian Howe and his wife took a big hit during the recent housing crisis and recession. But he saw the downturn as an opportunity to reinvent himself and UCEDC was happy to help with a microloan.
Name:
Lonchando Farms
Location:
Jersey City
When Raquel Gonzalez decided to start a commercial farm in the middle of Jersey City, she knew she needed expert business advice. She found that advice and more in UCEDC's Entrepreneurship 101 workshop.
Name:
Technology Concepts Group International
Location:
Somerset
Back in 1988, Avis Yates-Rivers was an ambitious start-up entrepreneur, looking to UCEDC for help with financing and business operations. Today, she's the CEO of a global IT consulting company.
Name:
Main Street Movers
Location:
Irvington
Main Street Movers found itself in a situation common to many small businesses: it was enjoying steady growth with an equally steady shortfall of working capital. That's when UCEDC and the Community Advantage 7a loan program came to the rescue.
Name:
LM Foods
Location:
Carteret
Mark Olivito describes himself as a “CPG (consumer packaged goods) Addict”, having spent his career at consumer goods giants like Sara Lee and Kraft. So when he decided to follow his dream and make the big leap to small business…
Name:
The Carpet Girl
Location:
Springfield
Dianne Grossman experienced her “life-changing aha moment” while flipping through a trade magazine called Floor Covering Weekly. There it was…a most startling statistic: “80% of flooring is purchased by women, yet 80% of flooring is sold by men.” She was…well…floored…
