A team of business administration majors that fast-tracked the launching of a retail discount card business were the winners of a Birmingham-Southern College entrepreneurship contest.
The nation’s largest microlending organization, Accion Texas Inc., has promoted Alabama Market Manager Lisa Riley to Delta Manager. Riley will remain based in Birmingham (at One 55th Place Sout...
Of his 59 years, Jim Corman spent the first 53 in Atmore, happily starting telecommunications companies, selling them and starting over. “I started my first company as a senior at Auburn (Unive...
The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce recognized five companies and several individuals Friday during a joint meeting of the organization's governing board of directors and board of advisors.
Intuitive Research and Technology Corp. was named to Fortune Magazine's list of the country's top 25 small companies to work for. The Huntsville company -- beat only by Ruby Receptionists in Port...
Aspiration, courage, dedication - all are essential qualities of a successful entrepreneur. Add to that the fearless, enduring nature of a woman's spirit and the combination is unstoppable. The f...
Fernando Valentin, president of Bessemer's Trinity Design Group, was named Small Business Executive of the Year by the Birmingham Business Alliance during its 2012 Small Business Awards celebrati...
Last year, Connected Logistics was ranked 10th in the Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies. This year, the Huntsville-based small business fell to No. 74, a move that surprised CEO ...
SBA Alabama District Director, Tom Todt presented the award for Prime Contractor of the Year to Sigmatech, Inc. at a ceremony at the Redstone Summit Club at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville yesterd...
The SBA Alabama District Office presented the SBA Region IV Small Business Development Center Excellence and Innovation Award to the Auburn University Small Business Development Center on June 1.
This week Griffon Aerospace received Dunn and Bradstreet’s highest possible rating for its Business Category. Griffon is a company that has grown through solid financial practices and a zero de...
When Robin Gregorius walks into the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the nation's capital May 20, she plans on representing more than her Country Gables Assisted Living home in Grand Bay. Gregorius was...
When the U.S. government wants to help train foreign law enforcement officers on how to extract the hidden secrets of a laptop computer or a cell phone, it often turns to a small company in Mobil...
Premier Surfaces has been selected for the 2011 Best of Huntsville Award in the Huntsville Granite category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA). The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Progra...
For our uncertain economic times, here is a lesson in persistence in small business: In 1974, Rick Chambers, then 22 and newly married, decided to start a hobby shop in a small block building on ...
Walks and Wags provides services geared towards dog lovers. Among these are doggie play/day care, boarding, walking and sitting services, pet taxis and even doggie parties. Today, Walks and Wags�...
In January of 2007, Angela and Chris contacted the Women's Business Center of Southern Alabama (WBCSAL) for assistance with procuring a business loan to fuel their company's expansion. Angela sta...
Needing financing to take advantage of growth opportunities, Gilpin CEO Paul McClure turned to the Alabama International Trade Center for assistance. Thanks to a creative solution involving the U...
Shortly after starting Barlovento, LLC, Ms. Jane Solomon began looking for tools and opportunities to help grow her business. She contacted the Troy University Small Business Development Center (...
Polly Hicks, President of Alabama Awnings, Inc. purchased the business from its founder in 1997. A lender referred her to the University of North Alabama Small Business Development Center (SBDC) ...
BIRMINGHAM, AL - Entrepreneurship presents many challenges for a small business owner during periods of economic growth and can be an issue of not only sustainability but also survival in periods...
'If It Don't Shine - It Ain't Mine!!' is the slogan used for many years by Melvin Whitlock, owner of Melvin's On The Spot Car Wash. For the past ten years, the business has been awarded 'Best Car...
Branding an area or a region is important to its ultimate success. Branding must be followed by progress that leads to the full achievement of the reality of the initial vision. In 2003 the city ...
Pat and Jack Khamken, brothers and founders of J&P Khamken Industries, Inc. of Montgomery, Ala., came to the U.S. as refugees from Laos at the end of the Vietnam War. Jack started the business in...
In the boondocks of Bullock County, Peggy and Jeff Sutton sprouted a small business with a national reach into health food markets, including a supply contract with health giant Whole Foods.
The Alabama office of the National Federation of Independent Business has named Billy Cotter, owner of Billy Cotter Construction of Enterprise, as the 2010 Solveras/NFIB Small Business Champion f...
Crystal Mountain Water was chosen as the first place winner in the Small Employer Category by Business Alabama in it's annual survey of Best Companies to Work for in Alabama. Great benefits and p...
Fashion designer and entrepreneur Natalie Chanin has built a reputation among the fashion elite in New York and across Europe, but she says her hometown of Florence, Ala., is still the best place...
One small business owner is not overly concerned about a slumping U.S. economy or slower domestic sales. Mrs. Kathy Green, owner of Creative Concepts in Irondale, Alabama, says export sales are h...
The original Momma Goldberg's opened in 1976 in Auburn, Alabama where for over 30 years it has proven to be a successful player in the Fast Casual dining market. Momma Goldberg's Deli decided to ...
Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc. has gone through significant growth and evolution under the leadership of Mrs. Lynn M. Carter. Since inheriting control of the company in 1987, Mrs. Carter h...
Based in downtown Tuscaloosa, the N9NE Agency is a full-service marketing and creative firm, with a concentration in innovative online marketing. The N9NE Agency offers traditional marketing deve...
Decades of dreaming, years of planning and several months of ongoing construction came together 15 months ago when the walls of Green Hills Funeral Home took shape and its doors opened to provide...
Cindy Heath was no stranger to the business world when she decided to start her own business. Cindy had 25 years of office experience before founding The Office Organizer, a successful business s...
Dennis Hagler is living proof that preparation and hard work will take you far. He has some words of advice when talking with potential entrepreneurs. Dennis says, 'First, determine the type of b...
Truax & Co., based in Selma, AL, is an antiques and home decor shop offering fine stationery, linens and other home accessories, as well as fine sterling silver and coin silver pieces, china, cry...
Barbara McClain Named "SBA's Alabama Small Business Person of the Year"
Gulley’s Trucking, Inc. of Midfield,Alabama has been named “Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) of the Year.” The award was made at the 12th Annual Statewide Entrepreneurial Development...
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David Carrington, local business owner and president of the Vestavia Hills City Council, is one of 10 entrepreneurs nationwide being honored for entrepreneurial excellence by a national foundatio...
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Debra Willis-Baldwin began a small construction business in 1999, and it has grown steadily in the economically distressed area of Tuskegee.
A Dauphin Island company hit hard by Hurricane Katrina is revived with help from the Small Business Administration
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