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Newbury, Piret & Co. Announces Sponsorship of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business
BOSTON, MA February 5, 2004 -- Newbury, Piret & Co. a leading Boston investment banking firm announced today that it has become a sponsor of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business.
Founded in 1991, Northeastern University's Center for Family Business is a membership based educational program focused on the unique interests of emerging leaders, successors and senior generation family members who are stakeholders in their family businesses. Supported by committed sponsors, who are experts in their fields of service to family business, the Center currently serves more than three hundred stakeholders in seventy plus family owned businesses.
Marguerite Piret, President and CEO of Newbury, Piret & Co., praised the sponsorship. "For over a decade, the Center for Family Business has provided unparalleled services to its members and we are proud to become a sponsor of the Center. Our sponsorship of the Center for Family Business is a clear testimony of our continued commitment in providing the highest level of investment banking and financial advisory services to family controlled and owned enterprises."
The Center for Family Business educational value is comprised of six interactive Executive Breakfast Workshops open to the entire family and key non-family executives. The Center also owns and manages the leading search engine for family enterprises as well as publishing the Family Business Quarterly newsletter, with a circulation of close to ten thousand readers.
About Newbury, Piret & Co. Inc.
Newbury, Piret & Co. Inc., is a leading Boston based investment banking firm,
serving public and private growth companies in the technology and business services
markets. Founded in 1981, Newbury, Piret provides Corporate Finance, M&A, Strategic
Advisory and Valuation services focusing on expanding middle market companies
in the life sciences, communications and information technology, business services
and defense industry sectors. For more information, visit the company's Website
at http://www.newburypiret.com.
About Northeastern University's Center for Family Business:
Northeastern University's Center for Family Business was founded in 1991. A membership
based educational program, the Center's activities revolve around Constituent
Forums focused on the unique interests of emerging leaders, successors and senior
generation family members who are stakeholders in their family businesses. Bi-monthly
participation with peers in small facilitated and focused discussion groups allows
forum members to address issues of their own concern and to learn from others.
Supported by committed sponsors, who are experts in their fields of service to
family business, the Center currently serves more than three hundred stakeholders
in seventy plus family owned businesses. For more information, visit the center's website.