The 661 axed auto dealers General Motors is offering to reinstate aren’t ready to pop the champagne just yet. They’re still waiting to find out about the terms they’ll have to meet to regain their franchises.
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Shuttered General Motors dealers hoping to get their business back should stay near the phone. General Motors is in the process of calling 661 dealers targeted for shutdown to offer them their franchises back, company executives said Friday afternoon.
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Gregg Fairbrothers wasn’t born to business. He grew up in an academic household. “I didn’t know a debit from a credit,” he admits. Fairbrothers studied earth sciences at Dartmouth in the ’70s, got his master’s at Rutgers, and eventually moved to Tulsa, where he joined Samson, a gas driller, and earned his chops at the […]

Turns out booze isn’t recession-proof.
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Jones Soda, the struggling maker of cult-favorite soft drinks, has agreed to be acquired by rival Reed’s at a deep reduction in a deal worth just shy of $10 million, the companies said Tuesday.
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When Dr. Bradley Block, a family physician in Florida, began to investigate electronic medical record systems for his four-doctor practice, he discovered that many of the largest firms in the field were not particularly interested in his business.
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Jones Soda, the struggling maker of cult-favorite soft drinks, has agreed to be acquired by rival Reed’s at a deep reduction in a deal worth just shy of $10 million, the companies said Tuesday.
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In 2002, a group of Babson College entrepreneurship students ran out of room on their whiteboard. They had spent hours brainstorming new business possibilities, and the sudden space crunch threatened to cramp their creativity.
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Added incentives for banks to manufacture Small Business Administration-backed loans will continue through the end of March, thanks to a fresh funding infusion authorized by Congress as part of Tuesday’s bill extending unemployment benefits.
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