Business Columns
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Training facility picks up speed in St. CharlesJan 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Three St. Charles men who have 11-year-old daughters that play on the same travel softball team recently launched a facility where young athletes can train. Eric Wendt,...
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Plan marketplace disruptions that favor your businessJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Adam Hartung thinks you should plan for some marketplace disruptions - with you, not the economy, doing the disrupting. Hartung isn't advocating anything radical, except...
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Novak & Parker going strong after 95 yearsJan 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Dan Novak, owner of Novak & Parker Home Appliance in Mount Prospect, admits he's conservative in running the 95-year-old business. That approach has helped bring the co...
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ComEd to offer text alerts to customersJan 22, 2009 10:00 pm - ComEd is seeking about 10,000 customers to sign up for its text messaging alert pilot program that launches Feb. 1. You could sign up today at www.comed.com. Click on t...
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New Schaumburg pizza rolling in dough ... and sauce, and toppings ...Jan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Steve Taube has fond memories of his father, Tom, making pizza on Sunday evenings at their Roselle home. "If we were eating at 5:30, my dad would start the dough at 3 o...
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Deerfield man's new games assists people with low visionJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Charles Schwartz, a trainer who works with elderly people with low vision, created a game that helps teach them how to live independently. After researching the concept...
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Selling in a fear-based economyJan 15, 2009 10:00 pm - There's a touch of the selling evangelist in Russ Riendeau, but that could be a good thing for the rest of us: Business owners sell; and today we're selling in what Rien...
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Dukane's new hand-held system may advanceJan 15, 2009 10:00 pm - St. Charles-based Dukane Corp.'s Dukane Audio Visual business has supplied film strip and audiovisual projectors to schools for about 70 years. But that business has evo...
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Carol Stream business specializes in professionally bound storybooksJan 15, 2009 10:00 pm - Kris Malandruccolo's business is all about preserving memories. For as long as she can remember, the Carol Stream resident has always been the one with a camera in her ...
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Customers respond to 20-year-old family businessJan 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Doug August is like many young boys; he would rather be outside. For more than 20 years, the Bartlett man has run his own business in which he's always outdoors. The ent...