BNET Industries
Market Cap:$225.1M
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...
Microsoft Memories ââ¬" Sleeping with Telcos
- 2007-05-20
“So we get married but we don’t sleep together?†I asked billg Bill Gates facetiously. It was a late night meeting which had coalesced in his office over whether to make a huge deal with AT&T or MCI. Interested parties drifted in as word...
Research and Markets: In The United States, Recent Years Have Seen a Significant Degree of Consolidation amongst Telecommunications Operators Such As MCI Agreed To Be Acquired By Verizon Communications
- 2006-10-05
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43088) has announced the addition of United States Telecommunications Market Intelligence Report to their offering
In The United States, Recent Years Have Seen a Significant Degree of Consolidation amongst Telecommunications Operators Such As MCI Agreed To Be Acquired By Verizon Communications.
- 2006-10-04
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 October 2006-Research and Markets: In The United States, Recent Years Have Seen a Significant Degree of Consolidation amongst Telecommunications Operators Such As MCI Agreed To Be Acquired By Verizon CommunicationsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06102006 Dublin - Research and Markets...
Research and Markets: Gain an Insight into the Merger of Verizons with MCI in the US Telecom Market
- 2006-03-16
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34409) has announced the addition of Whats News? Merger Mania Continues in the US Telecom Market, Part 3: Verizon Closes the Deal with MCI to their offering.
Looking Back: The Telecom Year In Review
- 2006-01-02
How 2005 Did And Didn't Shape Up Welcome to 2006. Right after New Year's Day is a traditional time for reflection, so Telecom Policy Report once again offers a glimpse at the past year's highlights (TPR, Dec. 22, 2004). The 2005 regulatory and legislative scene saw...
Rivermine Appoints Telecom Powerhouse Cindy Andreotti to Board of Directors; Former MCI President Brings Depth of Expertise to Market-Leading Company
- 2005-12-13
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Rivermine announced today that former MCI president of enterprise markets, Cindy K. Andreotti, has joined its Board of Directors. Andreotti, a 26-year telecommunications industry veteran and President and CEO of The Andreotti Group, brings her vast industry experience and a proven track record of success in telecom,...
Axtel eyes acquiring Alestra or Avantel of Mexico.(MEXICO)
- 2005-12-01
Axtel announced that it is interested in buying Alestra (49 percent of AT&T) or Avantel (49 percent of MCI) and may even make bids to acquire both long-distance and data companies. Axtel expects to close 2005 with a positive cash flow, and for next year it expects...
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...
US FCC approves two huge telecom mergers
- 2005-10-31
WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Communications Commission approved SBC Communications' acquisition of AT and T Corp. and Verizon's purchase of MCI, increasing the size of the two largest US telecom groups. The FCC's four commissioners -- one seat is vacant -- voted just days after antitrust reviewers at 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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