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Experts say the city’s rising levies and property taxes have taken their biggest toll on its nearly 200,000 small-business owners. “The city extracts a very high cost on small businesses,” said Manhattan Institute senior fellow Steve Malanga. “The b...
PETALUMA, Calif.----The following is a statement by the American Small Business League:
As challenging as our economy is today, small business entrepreneurship is definitely on the rise.
SAN FRANCISCO----Wells Fargo & Company today announced it is the #1 Small Business Administration 7 lender in dollars and the #2 lender in units. Figures for the federal fiscal year, which ended September 30, 2009, show Wells Fargo, together with Wachovia, extended 2,347 SBA-guaranteed loans totaling $827 million in financing to small businesses.
More small-business employees can expect no end-of-year bonuses or gifts for 2009. An American Express survey of small-business owners and managers showed fewer of them planning gifts or cash for their workers.
The declaration covers Clark, Floyd, Jennings, Bartholomew, Decatur, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Ripley, Scott and Washington counties.
Robert Stopanio's new medical-device manufacturing plant was supposed to open eight months ago and employ about 75 workers in a state that desperately needs jobs. But Stopanio hasn't been able to find the financing.
Advanta became notorious for offering business cards at low rates and then raising them steeply. Its finance unit may wind up in the hands of another bank, says BW's John Tozzi
VERNON HILLS, Ill.----CDW Corporation, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, today announced the 2009 CDW Report on Small Business Resilience, which identifies management and information technology infrastructure factors that contribute to business survivability and studies how small businesses are responding to the economic recession.
In the current jobless recovery, people are running out of unemployment benefits before they find job openings. Some may look to starting a small business of their own, but who would loan them money without a track record? Certainly not banks.
More small-business employees can expect no end-of-year bonuses or gifts for 2009. A recent survey of small-business owners or managers showed fewer of them planning gifts or cash for their workers.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, firms with fewer than 500 employees employ about half of all private sector workers and have generated 60 to 80 percent of all new jobs in each of the last 10 years.
TOMAH - Eric Ness, Wisconsin district office director for the U.S. Small Business Administration, will speak and answer questions about SBA loan programs at a small business forum at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Community Room at the Western Technical College's Tomah campus at 120 E. Milwaukee St.
The leaders of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIBA) are not pleased with the healthcare reform bill that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The group is ...
The credit crunch continues, with lenders getting tougher on everyone from people wanting to buy homes to small businesses trying to grow.
At a time when many small-business owners are struggling to make ends meet, rising credit and debt transaction fees are making the costs of doing business that much more difficult.
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