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Life in the Fast Lane
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Steven R. Fox, the dentist and company CEO who hopes
that his Enamelon toothpaste will win a profitable niche in the oral
health care industry, compares himself to David, battling the toothpaste
industry Goliaths (U.S. 1, December 16, 1998). One of the bigger competitors
for Enamelon is another central New Jersey company, Church & Dwight
of North Harrison Street, with its Arm & Hammer brand.
Now Enamelon has announced a move that it claims will strengthen its
position: the hiring of former Church & Dwight executive Kim D. Hardingham
as president and chief operating officer. Fox, chairman and CEO of
Enamelon, noted in the official announcement that Hardingham has “substantial
product introduction and brand management experience” that should
be especially useful as the company begins “the national launch
of the whitening toothpaste.”
The Enamelon brand is based on proprietary formulations and technologies
that the company believes will help whiten teeth and reintroduce minerals
to the tooth structure. At Church & Dwight Hardingham’s accomplishments
included helping launch Arm & Hammer dental care product line and
growing it to an 8 percent market share. If he can do the same with
Enamelon he will be flashing a bright smile indeed.
Meanwhile, a management move was announced at U.S. Dermatologics Inc.,
a Franklin Corner Road biotechnology firm. The new president and CEO
is D. Brooks Cole, formerly COO and president of Enamelon.
D. Brooks Cole has joined U.S. Dermatologics Inc. as president and
CEO. This young firm offers patented patch therapy for treating common
topical skin problems such as acne and fungal infections (U.S. 1,
June 17, 1998). Frank H. Barker, a Johnson & Johnson retiree who had
been president and CEO since 1997, is now the board chairman. Cole
has worked with the Vick Chemical Company, Avon Products, the Mentholatum
Company, and most recently with Enamelon.
In a letter to stockholders Barker noted that “per my agreement
with the Board of Directors when I joined U.S. Dermatologics in October,
1997, I have transitioned into a non-employee chairman’s role and
will assist Brooks with internal and external issues.”
U.S. Dermatologics Inc. (USD), 133 Franklin CornerRoad, Lawrenceville 08648. D. Brooks Cole, president. 609-219-1166;fax, 609-219-1188.Enamelon Inc. (ENML), 7 Cedar Brook Drive, CedarBrook Corporate Center, Cranbury 08512. Steven Fox DDS, CEO. 609-395-6900;fax, 609-395-7727. Home page: https://www.enamelon.com.Top Of PageCrosstown MoveSpecialty Assays Inc., 1117 Kennedy Boulevard,Manville 08835. Richard Kaufman, president. 908-685-2377; fax, 908-685-0088.The biotech research and development firm moved from 100 Jersey Avenuein New Brunswick last fall. It develops and markets unusual “invitro” diagnostic kits used by clinical laboratories to detecthuman disease.Top Of PagePatents NotedDelsys Pharmaceutical Corporation, 5 Vaughn Drive,Suite 305, Box 8738, Princeton 08543. Martyn Greenacre, presidentand CEO. 609-720-0033; fax, 609-520-6692.Delsys has received three more patents for Accudep, two involvingthe electrostatic deposition of pharmaceutical powders and one involvinga dry powder inhaler. The privately held company, which also has laboratoryspace on College Road, has eight issued patents.Top Of PageEcco Press SoldDaniel Halpern has sold his publishing house to HarperCollinsand will take a job as executive editor of HarperCollins’ adult tradedivision but will also be editorial director of an Ecco imprint. Hismuch lauded literary press was founded in 1971 and was augmented byfunds from Drue Heinz, wife of H.J. Heinz heir Jack Heinz. Halpernmade the press a for-profit enterprise and moved it to Hopewellin 1991 (U.S. 1, December 4, 1991). At that time, he said that fewliterary presses could survive without subsidy. By 1996 he had 11employees and with revenues of $3 million was reporting the firm’sfirst ever profit.Best known for its literary acumen, two of Ecco’s poetry books havewon Pulitzers and one of its authors, Czeslaw Milosz, won a Nobelprize. Ecco’s noted authors include John Ashbery, Paul Bowles, JorieGraham, Robert Hass, Tobias Wolff, and Joyce Carol Oates. Ecco publishessome 50 books annually. In recent years the press has been diversifyingwith books on cooking, gardening, and religion, and launching a children’sseries last September with Oates’ “Come Meet Muffin!”Ecco Press, 100 West Broad Street, Hopewell 08525.Daniel Halpern, founder, editor-in-chief. 609-466-4748; fax, 609-466-4706.Top Of PageManagement MovesThe Princeton Packet Inc., 300 Witherspoon Street,Box 350, Princeton 08542. James B. Kilgore, president. 609-924-3244;fax, 609-921-2714. Home page: https://www.pacpub.com.Michelle Ruess has left her post as managing editor of the PrincetonPacket to be the press secretary for the district office of U.S. RepresentativeRush Holt (Democrat, 12th district). Ruess had been managing editorof New Jersey Reporter magazine, state capital correspondent for TheRecord of Hackensack, and has covered the United States Congress forthe Cleveland Plain Dealer. She has also worked for daily newspapersin Fort Wayne, Ft. Lauderdale, and Kansas City.Holt also hired another member of the central New Jersey media scene:John Weingart, formerly of the State Department of Environmental Protection.Weingart is better known as the host of the Sunday night radio show,Music You Can’t Hear on the Radio, which he is continuing on WPRB-FM.The Hibbert Group, 400 Pennington Avenue, Box 8116,Trenton 08650-0116. Tom and Tim Moonan, co-chairmen. 609-394-7500;fax, 609-392-1237.Tom and Tim Moonan have succeeded their mother, Joan Moonan, as chairmanof the private company, and they will share the title of co-chairmen.Founded in 1881 as a printing company, the firm has 500 workers inTrenton and 250 in Denver. For Fortune 500 companies it does directmailings, database operations, inventory management, and web applications.Tom Moonan had been senior director of account management in Trentonand Tim Moonan was senior vice president of operations. It has anothersite in Robbinsville at 1100 Route 130 South.Holiday Inn Princeton, 4355 Route 1 South at RidgeRoad, Princeton 08540. Bruce A. Siegel, general manager. 609-452-2400;fax, 609-452-2494.Paul Gray is the new director of sales at the 240-room Holiday InnPrinceton. He has worked for Hyatt, Ritz Carlton, and most recentlyfor Novotel Princeton.Top Of PageExpansionsHann & DePalmer, 4 Applegate Drive, Robbinsville08691. Robert DePalmer, president. 609-208-0100; fax, 609-208-0922.This 275-person firm is consolidating three operations at this newRobbinsville location. The firm is vacating 90,000 feet at 28 EnglehardDrive in Centre Point Industrial Park, along with offices at 2 SouthMiddlesex Avenue and 161 Docks Corner Road in Dayton. Phone and faxwill be new. “We are reengineering the corporation and consolidatingat the same time, says Ron Davis, senior vice president.Hann & DePalmer offers integrated marketing support services –warehousing & distribution, inventory management, telemarketing, anddatabase management.Top Of PageLeaving TownThe Covalent Group Inc., 1 Glenhardie CorporateCenter, 1275 Drummers Lane Suite 100, Wayne 19087. Gary Goldberg,marketing director. 610-975-9533; fax, 610-975-9556.Patricia Leuchten closed the branch office of this clinical researchorganization at 195 Nassau Street and calls are being taken at itsheadquarters office on the Main Line in Pennsylvania.Intek Global Corp., 214 Carnegie Center, Suite304, Princeton 08540-6237. Robert Shiver, president and CEO. 609-419-1222;fax, 609-419-1221.The publicly held wireless communications firm will close its CarnegieCenter office, in a consolidation of four companies, and move itsoperating headquarters to Kansas City. It has 300 employees overall,and the Princeton office had eight people, headed by Robert Shiver,chairman and CEO. The stock trades as IDCC on the Nasdaq small capmarket.Intek Global makes dispatch communications equipment and operateswireless networks and is commercializing linear modulation technology,which increases the amount of voice and data traffic that can be handledby wireless communications. In October it spent $12.2 million at governmentauction to buy 181 new wireless airwave licenses for paging and taxior truck dispatch. It is working with the National Rural TelecommunicationsCooperative to help build a dispatch network for 900 rural utilities.The corporate office moved from Moorestown to the Carnegie Centerin 1997. Calls are being taken at 212-949-4200.Top Of PageDeathsRobert M. Kolachik, 48, of East Windsor, on February 13.He was a standardbred horse trainer.Frances Follin Jones, on February 13. She was a curatorat the Art Museum at Princeton from 1943 to 1983. A memorial willbe on March 12 at Bryn Mawr.Noreen Tuccillo Freedman 40, on February 16. She was anexecutive secretary at Firmenich, and owned Chambersburg Dance inTrenton.Philip J. Delorme, 57, on February 17. He was a computerprogrammer at Kingston Trap Rock and owned Phil’s Tick Tock Shop inTrenton.Kenneth G. Kramli Sr., 57, on February 18. He was EastCoast network system and applications development manager for IBM.Corrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
