by Admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Companies, News
Detroit automaker General Motors reported a pre-tax profit of over $9 billion in North America for 2020, despite an industry-wide slowdown of car sales due to the coronavirus pandemic and even a 40-day union strike which cut into the company’s third- and...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2021 | Companies, News, Women of Business
In 2020, just a few days after the election in November, Rudy Giuliani held a press conference at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia. Nothing unusual about that. Except that it was Four Seasons Total Landscaping (FSTL), not the Four Seasons Hotel. No relation. And no...
by Admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Companies, News
In July 1995, Jeff Bezos launched a book-selling website called Amazon. His first office was his garage, and his computers used so much power he couldn’t vacuum without blowing a fuse. Early company meetings were held in the local Barnes and Noble, since they had the...
by Admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Companies, News
In 1975, pharmaceutical researchers Robert Gyurik and Vassilios Theodorides developed a medication to treat a host of parasitic worm infestations in sheep. Known generically as albendazole and under a handful of brand names such as Alworm and Albenza, it was approved...
by Admin | Jan 25, 2021 | Companies, News
On January 19, 2021, grocery chain Aldi joined the small list of retailers promising to put their money where their mouth is on the topic of worker vaccinations. They’ll not only cover the cost, but Aldi workers will be paid two hours’ hourly wage to go and get each...
by Admin | Jan 18, 2021 | News
Many of us have an appliance or two that is as old as we are. Perhaps Grandma’s old stand mixer, or the microwave our parents got when they got married. Maybe the iron that used to press Grandpa’s shirts, or the old family radio. But we won’t have...
by Admin | Jan 6, 2021 | Companies, News
After Seattle burned down in 1889, prosperous brothel madam Lou Graham helped to save the city by making private loans to business owners after banks decided the city was a poor investment. Her investments went far toward rebuilding Seattle’s commercial core,...
by Admin | Dec 30, 2020 | News
In the earlier rounds of 2020 stimulus, over 5.2 million small businesses borrowed over $500 billion in loans, those forgivable through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) under certain conditions. Now several months later, nearly 2,000 of the companies which...
by Admin | Dec 23, 2020 | News
As joyous and teary videos circulate of health care workers and care home residents receiving the first vaccines for COVID-19, conversation in every field is circling around vaccines in general. While the COVID-19 vaccines, the first major mRNA vaccines, are the...
by Admin | Dec 16, 2020 | News
The Pure Michigan Small Business Relief Initiative sounded like a godsend for Michigan business owners when it was first announced. Not exactly a state program, but a quasi-public statewide grant program from Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC), the $10 million...
