BNET Industries
Market Cap:$230.7M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$29.1M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Investment Fund
President
Clifford M. NoreenContact Information
c/o Babson Capital Management LLC 1500 Main St Ste 600
Springfield, Massachusetts 01115
(413) 226-1516
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NAICS Code Floor Covering Stores: 442210
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Yankee Group Issues Rankings of Top Wholesale Data Providers; BellSouth, Sprint lead overall quality; MCI rated best in network performance
- 2006-01-04
BOSTON -- Yankee Group announced today that Sprint and BellSouth have been chosen as leaders in overall quality among their wholesale provider competitors, according to the recently released Yankee Group 2005 US Wholesale Data Services Survey and supporting report, Sprint, BellSouth Lead Wholesale Providers in Overall Quality. Wholesale customers also...
MCI lands ABN AMRO contract.(CONTRACTS)
- 2006-01-01
MCI announced that it has signed a five-year global network integration agreement with ABN AMRO to manage their global data network and firewall platforms. The value of the contract is EUR500 million (approximately $550 million) over five years. The scope of the agreement...
MCI lands ABN Ambro contract
- 2005-12-16
MCI announced that it has signed a five-year global network integration agreement with ABN AMRO to manage their global data network and firewall platforms. The value of the contract is EUR500 million (approximately $550 million) over five years. The scope of the agreement includes wide-area network, local-area network, and...
Earthlink and Google bring new model to metrozone access
- 2005-11-01
The booming US metrozone market is starting to attract major players from the internet space, alongside the traditional wireless ISPs. Internet service provider EarthLink, for instance, has won the contract to build the Philadelphia citywide network, and now search engine giant Google is bidding to create a free hotzone for...
MCI Drives Managed IP Communications Expansion With Cisco; Leading Provider Adds Managed IP PBX Capabilities to Give Customers More Data and Voice Convergence Options to Help Lower Network TCO and Increase Productivity
- 2005-09-20
BOSTON -- MCI, Inc. is expanding its managed IP communications offerings to the business market with the launch of Managed IP PBX, based on Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) technology, including the Cisco CallManager product suite. MCI's Managed IP PBX solution is part of MCI's Cisco Powered Network-branded Advantage suite of Voice-over-IP VoIP...
CITTIO Names Tom Kress Vice President of Sales and Marketing; Veteran Executive from Time Warner and MCI Joins Award-Winning Network Monitoring and Management Innovator
- 2005-09-19
SAN FRANCISCO -- CITTIO Inc., the innovation leader in network monitoring and operations software, announced today that it has named Tom Kress as vice president of sales and marketing. Kress brings to CITTIO extensive sales and operations management experience in the networking and telecommunications industries at companies such as Internap...
Merger mania creates many uncertainties.(analysis on acquisitions and mergers)
- 2005-07-01
SBC will spend some $16 billion to buy AT & T, Sprint spends $35 billion for Nextel and, after a thrilling drama, Verizon won MCI for a mere $8.5 billion. What a world. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Assuming...
LeasePlan Chooses MCI to Provide Worldwide MPLS-Based Data Network and Security Services.
- 2005-06-28
AMSTERDAM, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- AMSTERDAM, June 28 /PRNewswire/ --
MCI Wins 2005 Innovation Award from CMP Media LLC's Network Magazine; MCI Recognized for Integrating its Hosted Business VoIP Offering with its MPLS-based VPN
- 2005-05-04
LAS VEGAS -- MCI, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCIP) today announced that MCI Advantage over Private IP Service received the 2005 Innovation Award for Most Influential Technology in the Data Services category from CMP Media LLC's Network Magazine.
MCI Selects Nakina Systems to Provide Next Generation Operational Support Software; Reduces Operating Expenses, Provides Common View of Network Management Elements, Accelerates Network Deployments
- 2005-05-03
OTTAWA -- Nakina Systems Inc., an Ottawa-based independent software vendor, and MCI have signed a purchase agreement for Nakina to supply next-generation operational support software OSS for MCI's Common Element Management System CEMS.
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Clifford M. Noreen | President |
| William J. Barrett | Director |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Donald Glickman | Board of Directors |
| Marshall D Butler | Board of Directors |
| Martin T. Hart | Board of Directors |
| Robert E. Joyal | Board of Directors |
President (since 2008), Vice Chairman (2007-2008), Member of the Board of Managers (since 2006), Managing Director, Babson Capital; President (2005 - 1/2009), Vice President (1993- 2005) of the Trusts. Vice President (since 1996), HYP Management LLC (LLC Manager); Director (since 2005), MassMutual Corporate Value Limited (investment company); Director (since 2005), MassMutual Corporate Value Partners Limited (investment company); Senior Vice President (since 1996), MMHC Investment LLC (passive investor); Managing Director (since 2006), MassMutual Capital Partners LLC (investment company); Director (since 2008), Jefferies Finance LLC (a finance company); Member of Investment Committee (since 1999), Diocese of Springfield.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | President | Current |
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | Chair of Board | Current |
Chairman (since 1992), Donald Glickman and Company, Inc. (private investments); and Partner (since 1992), J.F. Lehman & Co. (private investments). Director (since 1984), Monro Muffler and Brake, Inc. (automobile repair service); and Lead Director (since 1998), MSC Software Corp. (simulation software).
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | Board of Directors | Current |
| MassMutual Participation Investors | Board of Directors | Current |
| Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Infinity Venture Capital Fund | Chairman of the Board | Current |
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | Board of Directors | Current |
| Alpha Technologies | Board of Directors | Current |
| Kyocera Corporation | Director | Former |
MARTIN T. HART has been a director of ValueClick since March 1999. Mr. Hart has been a private investor in the Denver area since 1969. He has owned and developed a number of companies into successful businesses, and has served on the board of directors for many public and private corporations. Presently, Mr. Hart is serving on the board of the following public companies: MassMutual Corporate Investors, an investment company; MassMutual Participation Investors, an investment company; Texas Roadhouse, a restaurant chain; and Spectranetics Corporation, a medical device company. He also continues to serve on the board of directors of several private companies. Mr. Hart graduated with a B.A. from Regis University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ValueClick, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Private Lessons Channel | Board Member | Current |
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | Board of Directors | Current |
| Mediaplex | Director | Current |
| Texas Roadhouse, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Spectranetics Corporation | Board Director | Current |
| Willie's Corner | Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Beacon Power Corporation | Current | |
| Private Equity | Director | Current |
| Scottish Re Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Corporate Governance | Board of Directors | Current |
| Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Jefferies Group, Inc. | Director | Current |
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | Board of Directors | Current |
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | Trustee | Current |
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | trustee | Former |
William J. Barrett , 69, Secretary of the Company since 2001, was a director of the Company from 1996 to 1997 and rejoined the Board of Directors in 2001. Mr. Barrett is President of Barrett-Gardner Associates, Inc., a private merchant banking firm; Director of MassMutual Corporate Investors and MassMutual Participation Investors, closed-end investment trusts; Director, Executive Vice President, Assistant Treasurer and Secretary of Supreme Industries, Inc., a specialized manufacturer of truck bodies and shuttle buses; Director of TGC Industries, Inc., a geophysical services company; and Chairman of the Board of Rumson-Fair Haven Bank and Trust Company, a New Jersey state independent, commercial bank and trust company.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MassMutual Corporate Investors | Director | Current |
| Chase Packaging Corp | Secretary | Current |
| Tgc Industries, Inc. | Director | Current |
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