August 7, 2009

Kids Kloset Honored As One Of The 2009 Indiana Companies To Watch

dBusinessNews Indianapolis: Kids Kloset has been recognized as one of the 2009 Indiana Companies to Watch, an awards program presented by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, its Small Business Development Center network, Purdue University and the Edward Lowe Foundation. Fifty companies from Indiana will be honored as outstanding second-stage companies during the second annual Indiana […]

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Sylvan Learning, Inc. Welcomes New Franchisee In Las Vegas

Franchise Site

PR Newswire: Sylvan Learning, Inc., North America’s most recognized provider of supplemental education, announced today a new franchisee in Las Vegas. Frank and Carole Grant have purchased the Sylvan Learning centers located at 1701 N. Green Valley Parkway, Building 8, Suite C, Hendersonville, NV and 1181 Buffalo Drive, Suite 120, Las Vegas, NV. These centers

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Welcome To The Waste Land

Franchise Site

Sunday Star Times: Imagine counting out $500 of your hard-earned cash, a soft wad of tens, twenties and fifties, and throwing it straight in the rubbish bin. You’d take it as a sign of madness. Yet that’s the amount of food each of us bins every year. We tell ourselves that we are clean and

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Noosa Students Boost Charity Ride Funds

Franchise Site

Where I Live: Good Shepherd Lutheran College students have joined a quest to raise $200,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities. For the month of August funds raised from the schoolâ€™s weekly collection plates will go toward sponsoring Noosaville McDonaldâ€™s franchisee Mathew Grut and local GP Dr Ashley White on a 500km charity bike ride. Mr

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Fairytale Success For WA Franchises?

Franchise Site

PerthNow: The company behind hit children’s TV show The Fairies is opening “concept” stores in WA and is coming to Perth in the hunt for franchisees. Founder and managing director Jen Watts said she hoped to open up to 15 WA stores in the next two years following the success of two in South Australia.

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Nutty Idea Paying Off For Entrepreneur

Ideas

FOX4KC: It might seem risky to start a new business in a recession, but many economists say that now is a great time to try. A Lawrence, Kansas, woman took her knowledge of nutrition and some help from friends to start a successful, if a little nutty, food business. Nancy Prather sells a unique product

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Bubbles, Zubbles, Toys And Troubles

Inventions

Wired: They’re bubbles. And they’re in color. And they wash out, rub away or plain evaporate after splattering. Describing Tim Kehoe’s invention — Zubbles — is simple. The 15-year journey from concept to this summer’s product launch was anything but. “If you said to me, ‘You’re going to spend a quarter of your life playing

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Toys For Young Inventors

Inventions

Children’s Toys Examiner: August is National Inventors’ Month and what better way to celebrate than to get the kids working on some right-brain activity. How do we get the future, aka our children, to start thinking about innovation? One step is to get their creative gears turning with some fantastic, creative activity kits. And, we

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Burger King: No Shoes Rule Taken Too Far With Baby

Franchise Site

KVOA.com: Like most restaurants, the Burger King in this St. Louis suburb has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy. And baby, do they enforce it. Too much so, the company admitted, after apologizing for restaurant workers who asked a mother to leave because her 6-month-old wasn’t wearing shoes. Jennifer Frederich, her mother and

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Web Mompreneur Celebrates 2 Years Of Selling Handmande Judaica Online

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PR Web: Risa Borsykowsky of Albertson, NY is celebrating the 2nd anniversary of her website, www.JewishGiftPlace.com. Risa, a website designer for almost 10 years, launched her own retail web business after designing dozens of websites for clients across the country. Excited by her success in helping her clients rank well in Google and Yahoo, Risa

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