Word: whitely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Small-business company sales fell 3.8% on average in the first 10 months of 2009, which reverses the 2.4% gain posted in 2008, according to Sageworks, which provides software and consulting services to private business. "That's almost a 6% decline in the sales growth rate," says Andrew White, the firm's chief financial officer. Large publicly traded companies fared better, with sales slipping only 1.8% on average in the first 10 months of the year, he says...
...Certain sectors have been ravaged more than others: small businesses involved in the transportation and warehouse business, manufacturing, wholesale trade and retail trade took the biggest hits, with sales plunging 16.7%, 13.8%, 10.4%. and 6.7% respectively in 2009, says White. (Sageworks' results reflect data gathered from more than 10,000 banks and CPAs who work with small businesses...
...Small businesses generated 65% of the job growth between 1993 and 2008, and represent about half of the private-sector employment in the U.S., according to the Small Business Administration. "So they are going to be important for us to have a true recovery that includes job growth," says White...
...small businesses train or hire employees, that's going to impact the jobless rate," concurs White...
...Obama Administration's initial hopes for widespread Chinese broadcast of the event were not, in the end, realized. Though the event was covered on Shanghai television, elsewhere in the country the broadcast networks did not carry the feed. The White House website streamed the video, but it was not immediately apparent that any of the major Chinese Web portals had done the same. A TIME reporter tried to find Chinese residents watching the event in Beijing Internet cafés, but a survey of a half-dozen establishments found no one watching. Customers were playing online games instead...