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unusual facts about small businesses



Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development

The Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development is a continuing education center, part of the Dallas County Community College District, which helps small businesses with training, development and other services.


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American Can Company Building

Two years later, it was reopened by the Cleveland Machine Company, which used its first floor for machining purposes; after their departure in 1978, it sat almost totally unused, with the only exceptions being small businesses such as T-shirt printers and warehouse operators.

Attack marketing

Currently, attack marketing is prominently used to promote small businesses as well as larger brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Disney, Mars and more.

Burnley Savings and Loans

It was set up in 2011 by Dave Fishwick, who felt that the current banking system was corrupt and needed change; he felt they weren't lending enough money to people or small businesses that needed a kick-start to get going, and that the rate of interest for savings was too low.

Cammeray, New South Wales

Miller Street, the main thoroughfare of Cammeray, is lined with restaurants influenced by Chinese, Thai and Italian cuisine, as well as several cafes, the local post office, a petrol station and many other small businesses like dentists and jewellers.

Darian Shirazi

Radius tracks 26 million small businesses in the United States in real time and has over half a million pieces of data, which include: social data; government data; people data; business listing metadata; daily deals, like those found on Amazon local; news articles and reviews.

Derek Brownlee

Brownlee worked as a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young (1996–2002), Institute of Directors (2002–2004) and Deloitte (2004–2005), advising large and small businesses before his entering the Scottish Parliament.

Ergoldsbach

There a variety of supermarkets, two bakeries with outlets in Neufahrn, Essenbach, Landshut, etc. and other small businesses.

EVoice

The service was founded by Wendell Brown and Craig Taro Gold in 1999 and re-launched in March 2010 with new features, targeting entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Florida Tile

The 1980s were a good time for Florida Tile - several times it was named on the Forbes list of best small businesses, and twice listed by USA Today as one of the best performing stocks of the decade.

Hildenborough

Apart from one large financial institution Fidelity Investments having set up its UK Headquarters in Hildenborough and a GlaxoSmithKline factory at nearby Powder Mills, commerce in the village is primarily based on small businesses.

Jill Rips

Matt Sorenson (Dolph Lundgren), a former boxer and San Francisco cop, now makes a living collecting debts for small businesses.

Joe Sorge

AJ Bombers was one of 30 small businesses taking part in the initial test of Foursquare, a social networking site for small businesses.

Judith Rodin

She encouraged revitalization in University City and West Philadelphia through public safety; the establishment of Wharton School alliances for small businesses; the development of buildings and streetscapes that turned outward to the community; and the establishment of a university-led partnership school, the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School.

Llandrindod Wells

The building has in recent years been renovated and is now home to several small businesses and the National Cycle Collection, featuring some of the bicycles originally displayed in the garage.

Mako Networks

Operating from the front room of a residential flat in Herne Bay, Auckland, the company began by offering managed firewall services for small businesses and enterprise clients.

Matfors

The papermill was closed in 1990, at the time owned by SCA, and the original main building now hosts about 20 small businesses.

MerchantCircle

MerchantCircle is a San Ramon, California-based start-up company which helps small businesses network with other local businesses and reach local customers through free marketing tools and social media features.

Mirage Tavern

The Mirage Tavern was a drinking establishment at 731 N. Wells St. in Chicago purchased by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977 to investigate widespread allegations of official corruption and shakedowns visited on small businesses by city officials.

Montana gubernatorial election, 2004

He called for new uses to be found for crops like mint and for small businesses to pool in purchasing health care.

Musoma

Many people in Musoma are engaged in fishing Nile perch from the lake, or own and run small businesses, or are simply employed in the public sector or private sector (both formal and informal).

National Small Business Week

The Entrepreneurial Development Awards, honoring Small Business Development Centers, Women's Business Centers and SCORE for their innovation and excellence in assistance to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Nessa Feddis

Feddis predicted on various national news stations, including PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and on ABC News that the Credit CARD Act would mean that credit card rates would increase generally, small businesses and consumers would find it harder to obtain credit, and limits would be lower.

NFIB

National Federation of Independent Business, a United States organization representing the interests of small businesses

Ohio State Route 149

From the interchange until the intersection with US 40, the route is surrounded by small businesses, fast foot restaurants, and the campuses of Union Local High School and Union Local Middle School.

Otsego County, New York

The City of Oneonta is the home of Hartwick College, the State University of New York at Oneonta, A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital an affiliate of the Bassett Network, major retail activity, and numerous small businesses.

Pratt Center for Community Development

Located in Brooklyn, NY and part of Pratt Institute, Pratt Center leverages professional skills and practical experience in the areas of community organizing, policy advocacy, planning and technical assistance to support community-based organizations and small businesses in their efforts to improve neighborhood quality of life and to develop replicable models for equitable, sustainable community development.

Project Merlin

The agreement covers aspects of banking activity, notably lending, pay and bonuses with the intention of promoting lending to businesses, particularly small businesses, curbing the size of bankers' bonuses and promoting transparency with regards to executive pay.

Protection of Homes, Small Businesses, and Private Property Act of 2005

The Protection of Homes, Small Businesses, and Private Property Act of 2005 (S. 1313) is a United States bill "to protect homes, small businesses, and other private property rights, by limiting the power of eminent domain." The bill was introduced on June 27, 2005, to the first session of the 109th Congress.

Sage Group

The Company was founded by David Goldman together with Paul Muller and Graham Wylie in 1981 in Newcastle, to develop estimating and accounting software for small businesses.

Seedco

Following the September 11 attacks in Lower Manhattan, Seedco was asked by the Ford Foundation, the New York Times Foundation, and others to implement a disaster-recovery initiative for small businesses and their workers.

The Business Inspector

In each episode, businesswoman, entrepreneur, self-made millionaire Hilary Devey visited and aimed to transform struggling small businesses.

The Geek Group

The Geek Group is sponsored by many companies, the majority of them small businesses local to the Group, but also some larger companies such as Haas Automation, Iscar and Rustoleum.

Vance Hartke

He also was instrumental in creating the International Executive Service Corps, an organization, modeled after the Peace Corps that sent retired U.S. businessmen to poor countries to help turn small businesses into large ones.

Will Tallman

He was most recently self-employed performing computer networking and telephone line improvements for several small businesses in the Hanover and Gettysburg areas.