Businesses approach growth in a variety of ways, but the goal is always the same: Build a stronger, sustainable brand. But how?In the case of Bloomscape, a Detroit-based online company specializing in the delivery of healthy potted plants, its growth plan was accelerated as the coronavirus pandemic...
Dorothy McElwain found a new use for the skills she’d honed working for others. Lois Runzo responded to the challenge of transforming a financially troubled company. Faerie Grace reinvented the way she communicates with clients while staying true to her strengths. All three women found fulfillment heading their own businesses
"We will be much more like a strategic partner for the developer and not just capital providers," Subahoo Chordia, head of infra fund business at Edelweiss Alternate Asset Advisors said. "Our philosophy will continue to help developers and construction companies to grow their core business by recycling their capital.
One of the Glacier Park Boat Company's craft saw a complete overhaul in the past year, more than 3,000 hours of work under the skilled hands of the company's craftsmen. The Sinopah was originally constructed in 1926 and now glides on the waters of Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park.
Some North Texas companies returned to the office in March 2020. Some never will. Read what local companies have to say about how and when they'll return to office One year has passed since a shelter-in-place order was issued in Dallas County in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM-TV) - UPDATE: As of Saturday morning, NYSEG is reporting 959 outages in Chemung County, 645 in Steuben County, and 286 in Schuyler County due to the high winds on Friday. Many people throughout the region are still without power Friday night after strong wind blew through the Twin Tiers.
ALBANY, N.Y. - A former bakery and electrical contractor's warehouse on North Pearl Street is finding new life as a theater. Capital Repertory Company - aka The Rep - is setting up shop at 251 N. Pearl St., roughly half a mile north of its former 40-year-old location in a converted Grand Cash Market at 111 N.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorizations for three COVID-19 vaccines so far. We compare the different available shots, and several still in the approval process for use in the Untied States. The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have been available to Americans since December.
George Lohmiller thought the COVID-19 pandemic would halt work for his Hancock firm, Our Town Landscaping. Instead, with people stuck at home, he said, demand for landscaping projects soared. The year 2020 turned into the company's most lucrative since Lohmiller founded it more than five decades ago.
HOUSTON - Meka Diamond lost her job as a part-time executive assistant when the insurance company she worked for shut down one year ago at the beginning of the pandemic. She's been looking for a steady paycheck ever since. "I had to face the fact that I can't go back when I want to go back," Diamond said.
Add to My List In My List Facebook, Microsoft and Uber have announced plans to reopen offices on a limited basis, as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic continues to slow. Microsoft and Uber say their headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and San Francisco respectively will welcome employees on March 29.
When I got back to work this January after the lockdown, it felt like I was getting into a new city, an unknown place," says Riya Dalvi, a senior general manager at Mahindra & Mahindra. The first few weeks felt really strange, she says, as people wouldn't even come close to each other.
The owners of the massive ship blocking the Suez Canal aim to refloat the vessel by Saturday night, hoping that a high tide and the further removal of sediment will finally dislodge it.
A cog in a fast-moving assembly line, her job involved picking up customers' orders and sending them down the line to the packers. Now she is a staunch supporter of getting a union at the Bessemer facility. She said employees face relentless quotas and deserve more respect.
Co-working office leader WeWork had planned to go public in 2019, but the company's massive financial losses and controversial then-CEO Adam Neumann caused the IPO to be shelved. However, it looks like WeWork is finally getting a second chance at a publicly traded future, as we just learned the company plans to go public via SPAC merger.
A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the former Bucks County Gazette. This week's entry comes from the March 28, 1908 edition of the newspaper. The new Bristol Trust Company be formally opened for the transaction of business on Monday, April 6.
Even as Covid vaccinations bring a return-to-office closer to fruition, more companies are expecting to reduce their real estate footprints. A recent survey conducted by the American Institute of CPA found that 21 percent of company executives said they expect to reduce their office space in the next 12 months, Bloomberg News reported.
MIDDLE HADDAM - "It's almost like you're on a different planet. The fact that the animals are in charge, you're a guest there and you realize that pretty quickly. This is their habitat. This is their world, and you're visiting," said Pierre Faber, co-owner of Classic Africa, a safari company that custom designs trips to southern and eastern Africa.
This season, there have been a record 7 female NBA referees who officiated at least one game. The second section of a two-part interview is focused on women's empowerment. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. In January, the NBA saw its first two-woman ref crew with Natalie Sago and Jenna Schroeder.
A race and inclusion editor for USA Today's Sports Media Group wrote in a blog post published Friday that she was fired over an inaccurate tweet about the Colorado shooting, and accused the media company of being "subservient to white authority."