Business Columns
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Elgin service business builds success in ChinaDec 23, 2008 10:00 pm - The most important fact about Paulsen Productions Inc.'s successful first year in China may be that Paulsen is a service business, not a manufacturer. No worries about l...
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DTV Day is closing in. Are you ready?Dec 18, 2008 10:00 pm - The Feb. 17 launch of digital television is quickly approaching. Are you ready? Thousands of homes in the area still aren't ready, according to two tests conducted Nov. ...
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Stores seeking shoppers on Super SaturdayDec 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Last-minute shoppers mixed with retailers offering awesome deals are expected to bring huge crowds to suburban shopping centers Saturday. "Super Saturday," the last Sat...
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A tale of two businesses preparing for 2009Dec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Retail probably isn't the industry you'd choose to be in these days, but that's pretty much where Lisle-based Footprint Retail Services, lives. And although he acknowled...
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Precious Moments concept focuses on innocenceDec 16, 2008 10:00 pm - The well-known, 30-year-old maker of innocent, childlike figurines is expanding its image by reaching out to a new demographic. In its first departure from the original...
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Shake-up continues at TicketsNow.comDec 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Did Cheryl Rosner resign on her own or was she asked? The chief executive officer of TicketsNow.com in Rolling Meadows has been on board for about 1½ years, including t...
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Specialty toy stores unwrap successful seasonDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Amid the blizzard of treacherous economic news, it appears toys are a sweet spot heading into the holidays. Owners of some suburban specialty toy stores say that parents...
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Do some reading to weather the downturnDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - By now you've either read or heard that we are officially in a recession. In fact, we've been in one since last December, according to the National Bureau o...
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Pro's advice: look at reinventing your businessDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Tony Massaro has some suggestions about how we should spend the rest of the year: Review your business' processes, he says. Be willing to reinvent the business. Be aware...
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Sonic looking toward boom in the suburbsDec 09, 2008 10:00 pm - Sonic, a burger eatery with a nostalgic 1950's-style system of ordering, is skating into the suburbs. The Oklahoma chain, which opened it's 3,500th drive-in restaurant ...