Fortune Small Business: In 2007, Green Dragon secured enough funding to begin production of its all-natural roach poison. CEO Jay Mullis formally launched the company in January 2008 and has since gotten a federal Environmental Protection Agency license to sell his boric acid formula. He’s now introducing his product into the market on a state-by-state […]
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Website Magazine: It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but a new study surveying 900 marketers shows that marketers are heavily invested in social media, to the tune of 88 percent using at least one social outlet. What is a little surprising is that 72 percent of respondents claim they have only been using these resources for a
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The New York Times: Newspapers produced and sold by homeless people in dozens of American cities are flourishing even as the deepening recession endangers conventional newspapers. At many of them, circulation is growing, along with the sales forces dispatched to sell the papers to passers-by. The recession has hardly been a windfall for these street
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Reuters: Forzani Group (FGL.TO) plans to open more than 25 new stores this year as the country’s biggest sporting goods retailer takes advantage of a weak economy and an increase in available property. Calgary-based Forzani, whose banners include Sport Chek, Sports Experts and Coast Mountain Sports, said on Wednesday it had earmarked about C$30 million
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Huddersfield Examiner: But the company has strongly denied doing anything wrong. Its shop at St John’s Road in Birkby was raided by officers from the UK Border Agency on Thursday night. They arrested a 27-year-old Indian man who was working in the kitchen after entering the UK illegally. He was taken to Dewsbury Police Station
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Fibre2fashion.com: Madura Garments, a division of the Aditya Birla group and owners of well know apparel brands like Van Heusen, Allen Solly and Peter England is contemplating opening 72 more stores across the length and breadth of the country. This was revealed by the COO of Madura Garments, Mr Shital Mehta, while unveiling the latest
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The Seattle Times: Starbucks will open its first shop in Poland on Wednesday. With Poland and the U.S., the chain has stores in 50 countries. It’s trying to ramp up foreign expansion while scaling back in the U.S., where same-stores sales have been clobbered. Like many of the chain’s foreign locations, the new Warsaw store
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Business Standard: Marks & Spencer Reliance India (MSRI) has lowered the prices of its cheapest products by 20 per cent by stepping up its sourcing from Indian manufacturers, in a bid to retain customers who are moving away to competitive products. A Polo Shirt is now available for Rs 395, compared with Rs 495 earlier,
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StamfordAdvocate.com: Stephanie Klein Wassink has taken her experience on the admissions committee at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and developed a consulting firm of her own. Called Winning Applications, the service helps students prepare applications and essays that give them the edge in getting into top schools. Now Klein Wassink, a Redding mother of
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Franchise Key: What opportunities are there for the advertising branch in these difficult economic times? How will business develop throughout 2009? These and many other questions were discussed during the Dialight franchise’s 11th annual conference that was held recently in Stuttgart. Agencies from Germany, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria and Switzerland travelled to the city to take
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