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Company aims to boost local spending and bring attention to small businesses  Bristol, Connecticut FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A New England startup company has just launched 209 different community gift card programs in Maine – each specific to a town or city.  The programs offer unique targeted support to local businesses since the gift card can be spent at any independent business in that particular town or city but not at big chains like McDonald's or Wal-mart ( see list of ME card programs ).  The company behind the programs is Connecticut-based Giverrang, which builds Community Gift Card programs for towns and cities to drive spending to small businesses and keep more dollars local. “The whole idea is to funnel more dollars and attention to small businesses,” explained Mark Walerysiak Jr., Head of Card Programs at Giverrang. “The big guys have the benefit of having huge resources behind them so we really want to help the small guys as much as possible.” Interested buyer...

Company aims to boost local spending and draw attention to small businesses  Bristol, Connecticut FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A Bristol-based startup company has just launched 169 different gift card programs for each town or city in Connecticut. Each program offers unique targeted support to local businesses by offering gift cards that can only be spent at independent businesses in that particular town or city ( list of CT card programs ).  The company behind the programs is Giverrang, which builds Community Gift Card programs for towns and cities to drive local spending to small businesses and keep more dollars local.  Each Connecticut town or city gift card can be spent at any independent business in that town or city. Cards intentionally can not be spent at chain stores like Mcdonald's or Walmart. Interested buyers can visit each card program’s web page to purchase a card (like the Hartford Local Gift Card ), and to see a selection of suggested merchants approved to accep...