Business & Economy
Moms spur growth in home businesses
By MARY-BETH McLAUGHLIN
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Kathy Losey and Kelli Harshman started out with a simple mission and ended up joining the ranks of a growing number of mothers who run businesses from their homes.
"We wanted a cool diaper bag to carry around, so we decided we'd just make one and went and bought some fabric," said Losey.
Do your homework when deciding when to factor
By STEPHEN WINDHAUS
Monday, November 13, 2006
The world of a small business advisor columnist is not simply sitting down to convey messages and watching it flow through the media world. It requires homework, research and yes, battling the litany of phone calls and e-mails from representatives of companies that want you to refer to them and their products in your column.
Mobile advertisements take message to the roads
By LAURA LAYDEN
Sunday, November 19, 2006
You can't hit the TV remote and tune them out.
You can't wipe them out with TiVo.
You can't close your eyes and look away, or you might get in an accident.
Welcome to the age of mobile advertisements.
Candy cane production ramps up
By JON CHAVEZ
Monday, November 13, 2006
If demand for candy canes goes any higher, the Spangler Candy Co. may want to ask Santa Claus for some tips on meeting tight production schedules.
With Christmas less than two months away, Spangler's manufacturing plants in Ohio and Juarez, Mexico, are at record production levels _ cranking out 3 million flavored canes daily.
The company, which also makes Dum Dums, Saf-T-Pops, and Circus Peanut candies, has been in a rush since June to increase candy cane production.
Output at the northwest Ohio factory, which had operated two eight-hour shifts five days a week through May, moved to three shifts a day in June.
Hotels try to be environmentally friendly
By DAVID ARMSTRONG
Monday, November 13, 2006
It's increasingly good to go green in the hotel business, an industry long associated with constructing and renovating big buildings and using powerful chemicals for cleaning and maintenance rather than being environmentally friendly.
Retailers think twice about too many teens
By DARRELL SMITH
Friday, November 10, 2006
Two kids inside at a time only, please. All others, form a line outside the door.
Since school started this fall, that's been the before-and after-school rule at a Walgreens in Elk Grove, Calif.
University, firms team up to help youth rehab
By PAUL MONIES
Thursday, November 09, 2006
At first, the young man kept to himself and didn't say a word to many of his new co-workers at National Oilwell Varco.
But a few months later, he's beginning to communicate with fellow employees and supervisors, said Kirk Hurst, vice president of manufacturing and sourcing.
Google grabbing for newspaper ad dollars
By MATHEW INGRAM
Thursday, November 09, 2006
If you read about Google's recent plan to sell ads in newspapers and wondered whether you were seeing things, don't feel bad. More than one person probably came away from the announcement this week thinking: "Why on earth would the world's most powerful online player be interested in a boring, old-fashioned business like newspapers?"
The short answer is that while Google made its name as a search engine, it now makes virtually all of its money from advertising.
Legendary Tower on Sunset prepares to close
By DALE KASLER
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys showed up once, in a bathrobe.
Bruce Willis spent $15,000 in one glorious shopping spree. Elton John was practically a regular.
