BNET Industries
Market Cap:$224.2M
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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Around The States
- 2008-04-07
New Mexico The thousands of Navajo Nation residents who rely on the Internet to work, study and communicate across their 27,000-sq.-mi. reservation likely to be without Internet service starting April 7. A tribal audit last year reportedly revealed Utah-based provider OnSat Network Communications Inc. may have...
Consumer Advocate Gives Scrooge Award to MCI; Presents to MCI ChiefOutside New Jersey Home; Will Publish Home Phone, Address on Web
- 2005-12-24
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Lawyer and consumer advocate Carl Mayer, on behalf of thousands of aggrieved MCI customers, traveled to the Princeton, N.J., home of MCI Chairman Nicholas DeBelleville Katzenbach to present America's First AnnuaPRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Lawyer and consumer advocate Carl Mayer,...
Mergers may vex regulators
- 2005-09-21
As federal regulators weigh what, if any, conditions to impose on two mammoth phone company mergers, they face a vexing Rubik's cube of possibilities. Any requirements they attach to SBC Communications' acquisition of AT&T and Verizon's purchase of MCI could force some customers to do business with a telecom...
Sprint Added Seven New Countries To Its Growing List Of CDMA Roaming Partners. RVWS, FON, MCIP, NXTL, TOMO.
- 2005-05-12
M2 PRESSWIRE-12 May 2005-InvestSource Inc.: Sprint Added Seven New Countries To Its Growing List Of CDMA Roaming Partners. RVWS, FON, MCIP, NXTL, TOMOC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12052005 Stocks in the News: RV Wireless Incorporated (OTC: RVWS), Sprint FON Group (NYSE:FON), MCI...
75 Years of Ideas.(News)
- 2005-01-17
Advertising Age is celebrating its first 75 years of service to the ad industry. We'll be sharing these moments in the pages of Ad Age on the way to the 75th anniversary issue appearing March 28. Next week: top ad moments No. 60-56. 65...
FCC again approves regulations to spur phone competition
- 2004-12-16
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators narrowly approved rules Wednesday that phase out many of the government-mandated discounts the four major regional telephone companies must give rivals to encourage them to compete for local service customers. It's the fourth time the Federal Communications Commission has approved rules aimed at spurring...
America Online and MCI Enable Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals to Receive Incoming Calls Anywhere, Anytime Using Their Own, Unique Phone Number
- 2004-12-13
DULLES & ASHBURN, Va. -- America Online, Inc., and MCI (NASDAQ:MCIP)
Ruling stands on phone networks
- 2004-10-13
NEW YORK -- The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear three appeals seeking to reinstate federal rules forcing local phone carriers to lease their networks to rivals at discount rates set by the government -- ensuring no last-minute reprieve for AT&T Corp. and MCI Corp. in their retreat from the...
Supreme Court lets lower court rulings stand on scrapping phone line rentals.
- 2004-10-13
By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--AT&T Corp., MCI Inc., and a number of smaller telephone companies were rebuffed by the US Supreme Court yesterday in their quest to save cut-rate deals to rent Bell System phone...
Lies, phones and UNE-P.(Consultant's Corner)(Unbundled Network Element-Platform)
- 2004-08-01
In late 2002, when the FCC decided not to eliminate the Unbundled Network Element-Platform (UNE-P) requirement, I fully expected the RBOCs to appeal the decision, but I didn't think they'd prevail. I was right on the first issue, the RBOCs did appeal, but wrong about the ...
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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