Sentences with phrase «smaller consumer businesses»

Newell Brands on Jan. 25 said it would explore strategic options for its industrial and commercial - product subsidiaries as well as smaller consumer businesses such as Rawlings athletic goods and U.S. Playing Cards.

Not exact matches

We need smarter regulation that balances the need to protect our families, consumers and the environment while promoting a thriving small business economy,» Kerrigan added.

Small companies keep innovation at the very heart of their goings - on, using it to propel their business into the limelight, yet at the same time remaining sensitive to the needs and wants of their consumers.

Now that the consumer segment is largely played out, banks are becoming increasingly desperate to find innovative ways to introduce financial tech to the small - business market.

Because small business can not afford most print or TV media advertisements to use your endorser, think of non-traditional ways to incorporate their voice and likeness, especially with social media... our free way to reach consumers.

My prediction is that small businesses will continue to challenge and at times beat the large enterprises (perhaps sooner rather than later), simply because they will appeal to the consumers desire to support the up and comers, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs that are often much easier for people to relate to.

Wheeler said he also planned to set up an FCC ombudsman that would relieve small businesses and consumers of the burden and expense of retaining their own lawyers to contest alleged abuses.

Wells Fargo, according to my own analysis of its Q1 earnings report, showed surging deposits in its «community banking» category (consumer and small business), but declining deposits in its «wholesale banking» category, and plunging deposits in its Wealth and Investment Management (WIM) category.

When your company is small and new, it's those very first consumers who can make or break your business.

Customer loyalty is important to small business — but what consumer wants yet another rewards card?

A small business can earn consumers» loyalty by focusing on this essential quality in four key ways.

For your small business, each employee, shareholder, and consumer carries more weight.

How redirecting even 10 percent of consumer spending from chains to local small businesses can boost local economies and create jobs.

This year at CES (Consumer Electronic's Show) there was one great new product introduced to the market that can really benefit small businesses.

PostNet Neighborhood Business Centers offer graphic design, printing, copying and shipping services for home - based and small - to medium - sized businesses, as well as consumers.

You might have heard of Foursquare, but if you're not using it for business, you're missing out on a powerful marketing and engagement tool that can help any business — large or small — tell its brand story to an entirely new category of consumer.

Still, credit bureau reports do have some potential for error, so small businesses should not necessarily use them as the only source of consumer credit information.

Credit approval is also something that a small business is likely to provide for its customers, whether those customers are primarily individual consumers or other businesses.

The impact of the adjustment is likely to be mild on most parts of the economy — for instance, slightly increasing borrowing costs for consumers and small businesses that rely on more traditional bank - loan financing.

Small Business Saturday, happening this year on November 28, started as an American Express initiative to encourage consumers to shop small and local during the holiday season, but it is now a key piece of the major holiday shopping day trifSmall Business Saturday, happening this year on November 28, started as an American Express initiative to encourage consumers to shop small and local during the holiday season, but it is now a key piece of the major holiday shopping day trifsmall and local during the holiday season, but it is now a key piece of the major holiday shopping day trifecta.

Small - business owners looking to buy mobile phones are often treated more like consumers than business professionals with specific business needs.

The Affordable Care Act may be in its second year for consumers, but for most small business owners, the law is just about to kick in.

He describes the experience as one characterized by service providers who usually see small - business users much like consumers, and small - business users who often don't analyze their own needs and desires well enough to understand what they're looking for.

Demand - siders say, when consumers have more money to spend, they tend to do so — and that helps prop up small businesses, from corner grocery stores to gyms to movie theaters.

«The small - business user's buying process is exactly like the consumer's.

Average consumers and small businesses, on the other hand, need to trust lenders in order to do business with them.

This week, news emerged that Goldman Sachs (GS) plans to launch a new business to lend money directly to consumers and small businesses.

Among the things that may have contributed to future sentiments are uncertainty about the country's fiscal stability, taxes, and consumer spending, all of which could severely impact small business owners, Bernstein says.

After all, a small increase in borrowing costs shouldn't prevent consumers from spending or deter a business that can sell more goods from increasing its capacity.

Small Business Saturday is just around the corner — and consumers are prepared to spend.

DST Global's Tom Stafford said: «Revolut is developing and delivering technology that reduces the complexity and cost of financial services for consumers and small businesses.»

Check out these statistics on small business holiday sales, staffing, 2011 spending compared to last year, how much the average consumer will spend this holiday season, if consumers plan on using their mobile devices more to shop, and more.

The premise of all these pitches is that you can take any good idea for a product, service or network (typically someone else's idea, who is already hitting it out of the park) and shrink that business down to a narrower target population or niche, or to a certain kind of consumer, and instantly turn the process of serving that smaller segment into a big business as well.

«Many of the regulations that protect consumers don't apply to small businesses, because businesses are supposed to be more sophisticated with dealing with lenders.»

And as small businesses face more and more challenges to reach their target market, consumers too continue to look for something different and refreshing.

The accessibility and convenience of the on - demand model is influential enough that it's actually shifting consumers to form a relationship with the platform itself, as opposed to the small business owner.

And while 41 percent of small business owners say they don't see any indications that the recession is over, that's actually three percentage points lower than the number of consumers who say economic conditions have not improved.

Traditionally, small business owners across the country are highly concerned with how flush consumers feel heading into the holiday shopping season.

If consumers aren't feeling so good — particularly around the all important Black Friday shopping holiday — that can spell disaster for just about any small business.

As a result, more consumers are stumbling into the hands of these on - demand companies as opposed to the websites, Yelp profiles or Facebook pages of the actual small business.

Raddon says it thinks small business owner sentiment may be a leading indicator, and that means consumer sentiment will soon catchup.

Australian consumers are increasingly spending their money with big businesses rather than supporting local stores, despite professing their affection for small business, a new survey has found.

People willing to spend time on mobile makes it easier for entrepreneurs to build new apps serving consumers and small businesses.

Though the industry has grown explosively in the past few years, making an estimated 1 million loans worth about $ 12 billion to consumers and small business owners, so too have questions and complaints.

«If you look at the market, small businesses are not well served by enterprise or consumer products,» Chong says.

Tomorrow's small business technology was on display at the recent 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show.

«For too long, Wall Street banks and the financial industry wrote their own rules while no one was looking out for small businesses and consumers,» said David Borris, an executive committee member of the Main Street Alliance, a national advocacy organization, in a statement.

If your business — be it small or large, private or public — is handling data of European consumers, you already need to be drastically altering your data management practices by the May deadline.

Dell is offering up to 40 percent off select business and consumer PCs during May, Small Businesbusiness and consumer PCs during May, Small BusinessBusiness Month.

«The Bureau is empowered with independence and authority to work to ensure that small businesses and consumers have an effective ally in our corner.»