Business Columns
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New Molex business will help your devices get smallerJul 05, 2008 11:00 pm - When Lisle-based Molex Inc. (www.molex.com) completed its acquisition of a Taiwan equipment maker, it thought smaller. Smaller hand-held devices. Smaller laptops. Smalle...
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Spray away mosquitoes with new control systemJul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Two men from the McHenry area have launched a business designed to free your yard of pesky mosquitoes. Tim Johannes and Ryan Lasky operate Bullfrogg Pest Control, a bus...
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Reinvention trumps loss in picturesque Maine townJul 02, 2008 11:00 pm - BELFAST, Maine -It's hard to believe, sitting here at a cottage window, that the world is having its daily crisis, that billions are being lost, that oil prices are yet ...
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Here's help for small businesses to find government buyersJul 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Bensenville's Liberty Fastener Co. gets 10 percent of its sales from the federal government - a "very valuable chunk of our business," says Shari Nickens, sales and purc...
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Can either presidential candidate fathom depth of credit crisis?Jul 01, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Far too many people are buckling under the strain of trying to run their households as consumer prices rise, home values decline and banks get tougher on le...
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Business keeps kids hopping in St. CharlesJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - An Algonquin couple recently opened a business that keeps children jumping for hours. Kathy and Scott Soeder launched Jump Zone at 731 N. 17th St. in St. Charles. This ...
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Three easy levers on retirement spendingJun 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Allow me to introduce the Power of Non-Financial Thinking. This is the kind of thinking that actual people can do. It involves none of the magical thinking preferred by ...
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Tourism bureau has great things planned with redesignJun 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Woodfield Chicago Northwest Convention Bureau, which has about 350 member towns and companies, has redesigned its tourism Web site, www.chicagonorthwest...
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Galatea now open at Deer ParkJun 28, 2008 11:00 pm - A grand opening took place Saturday at the new Galatea store at Deer Park Town Center. The shop recently relocated from Randhurst Shopping Center in Mount Prospect to t...
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Red Geranium grows new roots in BataviaJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Kelly Tiberi has replanted The Red Geranium, an interior and exterior design shop, in Batavia. After operating the business in Naperville at 19 W. Benton Ave. for nearly...