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Auto Repair Business 2012
Grab our latest auto repair shop market research report for your business toolbox!
Brewery Business 2012
Drink in the microbrew market info, brewery business stats & craft beer trends!
Helpful Web Links, by Industry
Environment & Recycling
Compiled by Veronica Rodriguez, SBDCNet Researcher Click here to suggest a resource link to be added to this page BioCycle an online industry journal. Coop America aids to building a green-friendly business. Energy Star for Small Business information about EPAs highly successful marketing program. EnviroBiz – financial data, business statistics, and links for the environmental [...]
Sports & Leisure
Auto Racing/Karting e-KMI.com e-zine of the karting industry National Association for Stock and Auto Racing- industry information on auto racing World Karting Association – Provides information on upcoming events and industry news. Business of Sports Teams Sport Business industry zine Sports Business Research Network articles, links, directories for a variety of sports businesses Team Marketing [...]
Food & Beverage
Beverage Industry Beer Industry Overview/ Profit Guide Beer Institute Online BevNet – the Beverage Network Beverage Digest Institute for Brewing Studies- Information on professional and craft brewing. National Coffee Association NewHope.com – Coffee Trends Wine Institute – specific to California wine. WineAmerica – industry facts Beer Serves America – sponsored by the Beer Institute and [...]
Success Tips
4 Tips on Starting a Janitorial Services Business
Want financial security and a growth path that might even take you overseas? Check out our tips on starting a janitorial services business.
5 Tips on How to Open a Bar
We serve up the latest industry trends and helpful links on the bar and nightclub business.
4 Tips for Convenience Store Owners
Pointers for starting, growing, and optimizing your convenience store plus links to more “C-Store” industry resources.
Market Research Archives
Funeral Homes / Funeral Services
For consumers, funerals and burials are big businesses. A funeral is one of the most expensive events in one’s life: the average cost of a traditional funeral is close to $7,000.
Ice Cream Parlors
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. Doesn’t that bring back good memories of your childhood and those hot summer days?Just imagine all the ice cream headaches! But, you cannot let that fool you into thinking the industry is growing. The ice cream industry has reached a mature stage.
Coffee Shop
The coffee business has boomed in recent years, especially with regards to specialty coffees. The market for specialty coffees has grown as consumers become more educated about espresso-based drinks and how they are made.
Organic Food Retailers
The simple definition of organic crops in the United States is defined as “crops that are raised without using synthetic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or sewage sludge fertilizer, and they have not been altered by genetic engineering.”
Entrepreneur News
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Small Business – Yahoo! News Search Results
- Why It's Riskier to Lend to East Coast Small BusinessesSmall business credit quality improved in the first quarter of 2013, according to a study published on Tuesday by Experian ( EXPN ) and Moody’s Analytics ( MCO ) . That’s welcome news, especially given continued reports of small businesses’ struggles to get bank loans. […]
- Small Business: Jennifer Boggiss - Heilala VanillaJennifer's father John Ross came up with the idea of reviving the vanilla growing industry on Vava'u in Tonga, 10 years ago after helping to rebuild a village up there. Her husband Garth, who has a background in horticulture, has... […]
- Fewer Business Busts, Small Business Driving EconomyA new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals that small businesses were the main driver behind the number of businesses being created in 2011-12. […]
- Small Businesses To Face Mortgage SqueezeHaving hung on through the Great Recession, many small-business owners face a new threat in the coming year: the difficulty of renewing loans now coming due. […]
- KeyBank Pledges 5 Percent Annual Increase in SBA-Guaranteed Loans to Veteran-Owned Small BusinessesFORT BRAGG, N.C., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyBank is one of 20 large national banks accepting a US Small Business Administration challenge to increase SBA-backed loans to small business owners who ... […]
- BIO Joins Coalition of Small Business InnovatorsWASHINGTON--May 21, 2013: The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced today it has joined the Coalition of Small Business Innovators (CSBI). CSBI is a national, non-partisan coalition of organizations dedicated to stimulating sustained, private investment in small, highly innovative companies focused on the development of new technologies. […]
- Small business played big part in B.C. Liberal victorySmall business owners can’t afford to risk political change if the economic change that comes with it also affects their business, livelihoods, income, family and employees […]
"small business loans" – Yahoo! News Search Results
- Veterans to Get More Small Business LoansNEW YORK (TheStreet) - Just in time for Memorial Day, the U.S. Small Business Administration Tuesday began a lending program that will involve 20 of the country's largest banking institutions. Wells Fargo , JPMorgan Chase , U.S. Bancorp , TD Bank head the list. The aim is to increase lending to military veterans by 5% per year over the next five years. […]
- Rep. Paul Broun to host expo in Monroe focusing on grants, loans for small businessesU.S. Rep. Paul Broun is hosting a Grants and Small Business Expo Tuesday at the Walton County Courthouse. The expo is an opportunity for individuals to learn more about their options for grant funding and small business loans. […]
- Lending from Advantage Capital Business Loans Leads the Way Toward Economic StabilityLOS ANGELES, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantage Capital Business Loans provides loans that are tailor-made for small and medium-sized companies by creating an underwriting model that is drastically ... […]
- Greater Hudson Bank Signs Partnership with Newtek Business Services to Offer Small Business Loans Throughout the ...NEW YORK, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Greater Hudson Bank , with locations throughout the Hudson Valley, and over $300 million in assets, has agreed to partner with Newtek Business Services, Inc., NASDAQ: ... […]
- Funding Community, Inc. Launches Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform for Small Business LoansPeer-to-peer lending startup introduces online lending community to support small business growth in the United States. (PRWeb May 08, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10669430.htm […]
- Brazil cuts interest rates on small business loansSao Paulo, May 8 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has announced here a reduction in the interest rate on public loans for owners of small businesses from 8.0 percent to 5.0 percent. […]
- Business Cash Advance Guru has New Options for Industry specific Small Business LoansSmall businesses across the nation are experiencing a countrywide credit crunch, imposed by the largest banks in the states; all while billions upon billions of dollars are being held in reserves, small companies are routinely denied lines of credit and other small business loan products. (PRWeb May 01, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/relea […]
SBDC Small Business – Yahoo! News Search Results
- AnyMeeting Selected by OCTANe to Present at VC in the OC 2013AnyMeeting, a leading provider of web conferencing and webinar software for small business, announced today that it has been selected to present at the annual VC in the OC Signature event hosted on May ... […]
- SBDC hosting flood insurance workshopThe Small Business Development Center will host a free workshop about flood and business insurance from 8 to 10 a.m. tomorrow, May 21, at the Business of Art Center in Manitou Springs. A lot of business owners have had trouble making sense of the current business insurance environment, especially as it pertains to flood insurance, said Ingrid […]
- Harper to offer social media boot camp for small businessesThe calls kept rolling in to Harper College's Small Business Development Center: Entrepreneurs were well aware they needed to jump on the social media bandwagon to boost their business, but had no idea how to start. […]
- BUSINESS TIPS: Business benefits from planningToo many small businesses decide to write a business plan only when they have to. […]
- Small-business resourcesSmall-business resources HOUSTON CHRONICLE Copyright 2013 HOUSTON CHRONICLE. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:48 pm, Friday, May 17, 2013 Tuesday QuickBooks Pro 2012: Two-part course: May 21 and May 23, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m., UH SBDC, 2302 Fannin, Suite 200. Cost: $129. Registration: www.sb […]
- TAMIU-SBDC sets workshopsThe Texas A&M International University Small Business Development Center (TAMIU-SBDC) will sponsor several workshops throughout the month of May. […]
- SBDC to host seminar on alternative fundingThe University of Georgia Small Business Development Center will host an event centered on finding business financing on June 12. The program, dubbed Alternative Financing in Today's Marketplace, will run 10 a.m. to noon at the SBDC offices at 1180 E. […]
SBIR – Yahoo! News Search Results
- Event Notices From May 21The latest event and meeting notices from Michigan's technology-focused companies, institutions and groups […]
- Aurora Flight Sciences Receives SBA's Tibbetts AwardAurora Flight Sciences was honored by the Small Business Administration with its Tibbetts Award which recognizes technological innovation made possible through the federal government's Small Business Innovation ... […]
- Going Underground with MicroelectronicsTorrey Hills Technologies, LLC was named as a winner of the 2013 Tibbetts Award at the White House today for the commercialization of its game-changing coal mine safety technology under the Small Business Innovation Research program. […]
- nanoRETE, Inc. Receives Air Force SBIR Contract for Development of Pathogen BiosensornanoRETE has been awarded an Air Force SBIR contract for the development of a field-ready, real-time biosensor for the detection of tuberculosis, and has received a matching grant from the State of Michigan. nanoRETE is developing cost-effective nanoparticle biosensors that can detect multiple pathogens and toxins while generating screening results in less t […]
- SBIR/STTR Accepts GDT TEK, Inc., as a New MemberLARGO, Fla., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxine Pierson EVP of GDT Tek, Inc., (OTC: GDTK), announced today that GDT TEK, Inc., is now a member of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business ... […]
- TechConnect and National SBIR Conference Announce Keynote Speakers for Next Month's Joint Conferences in D.C.WASHINGTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Organized by TechConnect and in support of the White House and Congressional call for innovation commercialization initiatives, the National Innovation Summit ... […]
- Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT) Selected as a Success Story by the Navy SBIR ProgramInnovative Defense Technologies announces its recognition as a "small business success story" by the Small Business Innovation Research program of the Navy. IDT was selected for its contributions ... […]
STTR – Yahoo! News Search Results
- Event Notices From May 21The latest event and meeting notices from Michigan's technology-focused companies, institutions and groups […]
- HR Notices From May 21The latest staffing, leadership and boardroom news from Michigan's technology-focused companies, institutions and groups […]
- Aurora Flight Sciences Receives SBA's Tibbetts AwardAurora Flight Sciences was honored by the Small Business Administration with its Tibbetts Award which recognizes technological innovation made possible through the federal government's Small Business Innovation ... […]
- Sorrento Therapeutics' anti-MRSA program gets NIAID supportSorrento Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that its Fast-Track Advanced Technology Small Business Technology Transfer Research grant (#1R42AI098182-02) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health, supporting the development of novel human antibody therapeutics to combat Staphylococcus aureu […]
- Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. announces its approach to developing human antibody therapeutics against MRSA receives ...SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: SRNE; or STI) announced today that its Fast-Track Advanced Technology Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) grant ... […]
- Ottawa County to host seminar on federal grants for businessesThe Ottawa County Planning Commission is sponsoring seminars June 12 to inform entrepreneurs, farmers, and small business owners about the availability of grant programs. […]
- NASA Giving $9.8M to SMBs for Trip to MarsNASA announces 14 winning proposals from U.S. small businesses and teams at research institutions for contracts totaling $9.8 million—funding aimed at promoting innovative, high-tech projects needed for future space missions. […]
Veterans Small Business – Yahoo! News Search Results
- SBA starting new lending program for veteransSBA starting new lending program for veterans by Joyce M. Rosenberg The Associated Press Published May 21, 2013 06:43PM MDT New York • The Small Business Administration says it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans. The agency said Tuesday it’s starting a program, the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, aimed at increasing […]
- More SBA loans to veterans pledgedU.S. Small Business Administration is announcing today the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top national, regional and community lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by five percent per year for the next five years. […]
- Veterans to Get More Small Business LoansNEW YORK (TheStreet) - Just in time for Memorial Day, the U.S. Small Business Administration Tuesday began a lending program that will involve 20 of the country's largest banking institutions. Wells Fargo , JPMorgan Chase , U.S. Bancorp , TD Bank head the list. The aim is to increase lending to military veterans by 5% per year over the next five years. […]
- SBA announces pledge to increase lending to veteran entrepreneursThe U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today announced the Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by five percent annually over the next five years. […]
- KeyBank Pledges 5 Percent Annual Increase in SBA-Guaranteed Loans to Veteran-Owned Small BusinessesFORT BRAGG, N.C., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyBank is one of 20 large national banks accepting a US Small Business Administration challenge to increase SBA-backed loans to small business owners who ... […]
- SBA Announces New Initiative with Top Lenders To Help Veterans Become EntrepreneursWASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is announcing today the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top national, regional and community lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by five percent per year for the next five years.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.co […]
- Small Business Administration starts new program with banks to increase lending to veteransNEW YORK, N.Y. - The Small Business Administration says it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans. […]
Small Business Sustainability – Yahoo! News Search Results
- Small Business: Jennifer Boggiss - Heilala VanillaJennifer's father John Ross came up with the idea of reviving the vanilla growing industry on Vava'u in Tonga, 10 years ago after helping to rebuild a village up there. Her husband Garth, who has a background in horticulture, has... […]
- Small Business Week kicks off MondayManchester Mayor Ted Gatsas in conjunction with the Manchester Economic Development Office will host the 3rd Annual Manchester Small Business Week beginning Monday. […]
- Manchester Small Business Week starts May 20Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas in conjunction with the Manchester Economic Development Office will host the 3rd Annual Manchester Small Business Week beginning May 20. […]
- Really Simple Systems is Named as a Online CRM, Web CRM and Small Business CRM Supplier of Choice for G-Cloud iiiLONDON, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- - Online CRM, web CRM and small business CRM provider will offer its services within the selected and approved suppliers list for the government initiative - Really ... […]
- Up Front With Gita Runkle: SMC Small Business Development Center DirectorGita Runkle serves at the Director of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) hosted by Santa Monica College. She recently moved back to Southern California from Miami, Florida. She started working with the SBDC in August 2012 and has made it her goal to develop more strategic partnerships in the community, including with private industry, governmental, […]
- A Look At SMC’s Small Business Development CenterThe mission of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) hosted by Santa Monica College (SMC) is to help emerging entrepreneurs realize their dream of business ownership, and assist existing businesses to better compete in the multi-faceted and ever-changing local, national and global economies. The SMC SBDC is part of the Los Angeles Regional SBDC Networ […]
- You're the Boss Blog: Sorting Through the New Political Alignments in Small BusinessIssues like the Marketplace Fairness Act are changing the landscape. […]
Small Business Government Contracting – Yahoo! News Search Results
- SBA changes contract rules for women-owned businessesA change to Small Business Administration regulations will allow greater access to federal contracts for women-owned businesses by getting rid of dollar limits for eligibility, the SBA said in a news release. […]
- This Week in Small Business: Gordon Ramsay Calling!The social media lessons from the latest Gordon Ramsay' nightmare. Small-business confidence ticks up. The deficit problem is solved (for now). How to use a six-second video. Would you buy a point-of-sale system from Groupon? […]
- Federal rules change drops contract limits for women-owned businessesA change to Small Business Administration regulations will allow greater access to federal contracts for women-owned businesses by getting rid of dollar limits for eligibility, the SBA said in a news release. […]
- Federal rules change drops dollar limits for women-owned businessesA change to Small Business Administration regulations will allow greater access to federal contracts for women-owned businesses by getting rid of dollar limits for eligibility, the SBA said in a news release. […]
- $3M in Broken Promises to Small BusinessThe following is an op-ed written by House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves, (R-MO). […]
- You're the Boss Blog: This Week in Small Business: Gordon Ramsay Calling!The social media lessons from the latest Gordon Ramsay’ nightmare. Small-business confidence ticks up. The deficit problem is solved (for now). How to use a six-second video. Would you buy a point-of-sale system from Groupon? […]
- Session explains government contractsQuad-City area companies interested in getting involved government contracting can learn about the process at a symposium next week sponsored by the Quad-Cities Chamber of Commerce. […]
Small Business International Trade – Yahoo! News Search Results
- Harnessing trade opportunities through ethnic SMEsHarnessing trade opportunities through ethnic SMEs The EPIC NZ 2013 conference which will be held in Auckland this Friday will be a key networking event to connect New Zealand’s ethnic and mainstream small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to better harness potential trade opportunities. Director of the Office of Ethnic Affairs Mervin Singham said that the […]
- SBA Announces Illinois Small Business WinnersCHICAGO, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Illinois District Office is pleased to announce Illinois' 2013 Small Business Person of the Year, Small Business Exporter of the Year, Small Business Development Center Excellence & Innovation of the Year, Jeffrey Butland Family-Owned Business of the […]
- US, Tunisia Launch Small Business InitiativeThe U.S. and Tunisia have launched an initiative to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, boost trade and promote economic growth. […]
- Feds talk trade with IndiaFederal politicians met with the Indo-Canadian business community in Brampton Friday to promote Canada’s trade agreement talks with India. […]
- Huntington Bank Receives National Award for Export Service ExcellenceHuntington is a winner of the 2013 President’s “E Star” Award for Export Service. Presented by the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, the award is the highest recognition any U.S. […]
- Business leaders call for action to conclude trade accordBusiness leaders across the Asia Pacific who are supporting the 17th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations currently underway in Lima urged negotiators to tackle and resolve now, rather than later, the sensitive issues in the TPP talks in order to enable a comprehensive agreement to be reached by year’s end, as called for by the political lea […]
- Port of Los Angeles ‘Trade Connect’ Program Earns Presidential ‘E Star’ AwardThe Port of Los Angeles’ Trade Connect program has earned the nation’s highest honor for promoting American export trade, the President’s “E Star” Award for Export Service. The Por […]
