Research and Markets: Lending to Small Businesses - Impact on Banks Profitability
Business Wire (press release)
Bankers are focusing on direct marketing to meet the high financial challenges, ie the cost of serving small business owners. Acknowledging that the cost of serving new customers is almost 10 times the cost of serving existing customers, ...

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Nashville entrepreneurs have a new source of seed money in Bullpen Ventures ...
The Tennessean
A portion of proceeds from any successful investment by Bullpen will go to help sustain the entrepreneur center, McWhorter said. Michael Burcham, CEO of the center, lauded the roles that the Ingram and McWhorter families have played in shaping the ...
McWhorter, Ingram start seed fundNashville Post (subscription)

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MK Automotive, Inc. Receives Approval From The Small Business Administration ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Mike Murphy, President and CEO of MK Automotive, remarked, "It's no secret that small business financing has dried up the last several years. SBA approval means securing attractive financing for opening or acquiring Mike's Master Mechanics locations is ...

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ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. Announces $8.1 Million Financing
Business Wire (press release)
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. (“ImmunoCellular” or the “Company”) (OTCBB: IMUC), announced it has entered into securities purchase agreements with certain institutional and other investors in connection with a private ...

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Globe and Mail
Despite problems, small-business program wins support
Globe and Mail
One of Industry Canada's key small business lending programs helped pump $957-million into startups and other small and medium-sized enterprises last year. But the Canada Small Business Financing program (CSBF), which has been criticized for its high ...
Starting A Business With Investments–Business Loans And Outside Investors For ...Red, White, and Blue Press

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iParty Corp. Reports Fiscal 2010 and Fourth Quarter Financial Results
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--iParty Corp. (NYSE Amex: IPT - news), a party goods retailer, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, which ended on December 25, 2010. Consolidated revenues of $81.3 million, a 3.4% increase ...

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Capital Business Credit Appoints Former CIT Executive, Marc Adelson, as ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Established in 1988, Capital Business Credit LLC (www.capitalbusinesscredit.com) is a commercial finance company specializing in providing creative supply chain financing solutions. The Company's service offerings include: full-service factoring; ...

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Reuters Africa
Gordhan: Development over dependence
Independent Online
The State is to boost this by micro-financing to the tune of R282m and R55m to Khula Enterprises to pilot a new approach to small business lending. Gordhan said support for the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) would be enhanced through tax and ...
Job creation key theme of budgetBusiness Day
Title: 2011 Budget Speech by Minister Pravin Gordhan, Minister of FinanceBuaNews Online (press release)

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Commercial Real Estate Mortgage and Equity Firm Celebrates Five Year ...
Benzinga
The company specializes in providing financing for commercial real estate and renewable energy installations. Churchill Stateside Group serves the affordable housing industry by sponsoring tax credit investment funds for institutional investors and ...

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Public financing plan for Bradley's Germantown plant moving forward
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
s proposed manufacturing facility in Germantown Business Park is tentatively scheduled for public hearings next month. The Village Board went into closed session at its Monday night meeting to discuss the financing plan, the details of which haven't ...

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CRDC partners with Mass. development corp.
New Hampshire Business Review
"I am interested in getting out and working with small-business owners to see how we can be of help to them in solving their financing problems," said Dugdale. "Last year alone, we delivered more than $100 million in financing to New England companies, ...

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Great Wolf Resorts Reports 2010 Fourth Quarter Results
Business Wire (press release)
All statements, other than statements of historical facts, including, among others, statements regarding the Company's future financial results or position, business strategy, projected levels of growth, projected costs and projected financing needs, ...

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Reuters Africa
Job creation key theme of budget
Business Day
This could include financing of the national health insurance scheme. Education will take up the largest share of government non-interest spending of R808,3bn – with basic education's allocation 10,6% up at R145bn and higher education 9,7% higher at ...
High expectations for 2011 budgetBuaNews Online (press release)

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National Finance announces profits of OR2.33m for 2010
AME Info
In a statement announcing the successful results, the company says that its business and financial performance during the past year has shown resilience in a tough economic environment. The net profit of OR2.33m for the year ended 31 December 2010 was ...

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Centric Software Secures $7.5 Million in Series C Financing
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Centric, a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) for makers of hard and/or soft lines in the fashion and consumer goods industries, will use the additional financing to fuel ongoing product and business development efforts, ...

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Commercial Facilities markets its services at Kuwait International Airport
AME Info
The brand's position is highly pitched thanks to its easier procedures, leniency, remarkable customer service, and quicker processing of transactions making it the largest financing institution in Kuwait. "Our business motto which earmarks the ...

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French bank opens IT centre
Montreal Gazette
It can't compete on local service but can offer a package of solutions to clients doing business outside the country, from project financing to foreign exchange. The IT deal was worked out with the assistance of Investissement Québec and Montreal ...

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Special Report: In Africa, can Brazil be the anti-China?
Portfolio.com
... concedes that the gap in support for Brazilian business remains large. "Brazil isn't in a position to compete with the (Chinese) model because we can't even get close to the volume of financing," she says. "We don't have the resources for that. ...
Special Report: In Africa, can Brazil be the anti-China?Reuters

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Nashville's Bullpen Ventures offers seed money for entrepreneurs
The Tennessean
A portion of proceeds from any successful investment by Bullpen will go to help sustain the entrepreneur center, McWhorter said. Michael Burcham, CEO of the center, lauded the roles that the Ingram and McWhorter families have played in shaping the ...
McWhorter, Ingram start seed fundNashville Post (subscription)

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ATI Relationship with Wi-Fi Alliance® Reinforces Value of Technology ...
PR Web (press release)
ATI is a traditional incubator that helps form and grow up to 30 startup companies at any given time and counts over 200 successful launches over its 20+ years. An industry organization like the Wi-Fi Alliance did not fit into the traditional ATI ...

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