This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Allison Blackwood, left, president of AEI, talks with Rista Malanca, Torrington’s director of economic development. TORRINGTON — What’s old is new again. Local staffing service Alternative Employment Inc. has been around since 1992, but had a ribbon-cutting ceremony just last week. “Actually, this is a new location,” said President Allison Blackwood, who succeeded her father and company co-founder, Jeff Blackwood, two years ago. The staffing service moved from 883 Main St. to 16 Bird St. in October 2022. The ribbon-cutting signified the move as well as Allison Blackwood’s succession to the leadership position, she said. She was joined at the ceremony by Mayor Elinor Carbone, Northwest CT Chamber of Commerce membership chairman D.J. Murphy, Economic Development Director Rista Malanca, and other AEI staff members. Even before AEI, Jeff Blackwood founded Blackwood Associates Inc. in the late 1970s, as “your traditional headhunting firm,” his daughter said. “It went through a couple versions and had been a franchise, and then he bought it out and made it his own." In 1992, he started AEI with a few partners, to complement the recruiting business. Alternative Employment Staffing, as it is often […]
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