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CHAMBER ADVOCACY WORK AND MEMBER NEWS

FOCUS ON
Women in

Business

This issue brings a spotlight

on women in business
throughout New Jersey

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We are proud to support and

highlight the women being honored
at NJBIZ’s Best Fifty Women in

Business, including: Caroline J.

Berdzik, Partner, Goldberg Segalla;
Joyce Brocaglia, CEO, Alta Associ-

ates; Marilou Halvorsen, President,
New Jersey Restaurant Association;

Carol Katz, Principal, Katz Gov-

ernment Affairs LLC; Katherine
O’Neill, Executive Director, Jump-

start NJ Angel Network; Michele

SPECIAL EVENT
Siekerka, President, New Jersey
Business and Industry Associa-

tion; and Elise Tretola, CEO and
The Recovery Continues
March Luncheon to highlight state of NJ business
Founder, Allies Inc. Their event will
take place on Monday, March 23, at

The Palace at Somerset Park.
t’s been ive years since the Great Recession’s end, and where are we now com-
pared to then? While experts, such as Dr. James W. Hughes from Rutgers, are
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predicting a strong real estate forecast for 2015, the state is still behind in job
recovery compared to the nation’s growth overall. Some predict New Jersey will Join the MIDJersey Chamber’s
Women in Business Committee in
Inot see a full recovery until 2017. Other factors afecting this slower predicted growth
include manufacturing jobs, pharmaceutical mergers, and the state’s casino situation.
the inaugural Women in Business

At the March General Membership Luncheon, the MIDJersey Chamber is bring- Conference on March 24 at Fors-
ing in experts to help shed some light on New Jersey’s current and future economic gate Country Club. The keynote

situation. Hear from State Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristof; Tom Bracken, address will be delivered by Chris

President of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce; and Robert Curley, South Jersey Rollins, host of 94.5 WPST’s morn-
President of TD Bank, and gain additional insight into the state’s continued recovery.
ing show, Chris and the Crew.

Visit www.MIDJerseyChamber.org for more details.

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