Hundreds of Stakeholder-Owners Bring Diverse Resources for Co-Op Businesses.
Gainesville’s eclectic culture has spawned several co-operative businesses in recent years, providing the community with access to good food and great art, creating great places to gather and giving members pride of ownership.
The small grocery chain Bi-Lo bought Winn-Dixie last month in an effort to compete with bigger rivals. Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. will become a privately held subsidiary, and Gainesville residents will see the effects of this purchase on the three local Winn-Dixie stores. The supermarket chain is being sold for $560 million to the Greenville, South [...]
Have you ever thought about the disadvantages of talking too much, especially if you’re in sales? The effects can have a negative impact on both your results and your personal income. Unfortunately, most salespeople start selling too soon, and the simple reason is because they’re talking too much. When you’re doing all of the talking, [...]
Florida start-up companies created more than 1.5 million jobs between 2005 and 2009, according to a report released by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA). The Job Growth Overview: Start-Up Companies are Florida’s Top Job Creators report, authored by FGA economist Joseph Burke, was created to raise awareness of the policies that affect entrepreneurs and [...]
In an effort to supply transparency to Florida taxpayers, the Foundation for Government Accountability recently unveiled FloridaOpenGov.org, a website that lets visitors browse records of about $1.4 trillion of state spending and payroll. The website features a database that includes state and county government payroll, local public education payroll, local government spending and state vendor [...]
Advice
From time to time, a small business leader finds him or herself in a position in which they need to transfer the reins of power to a new senior leader. Sometimes this occurs when there is a transfer of ownership from one generation to the next. Or, perhaps the business is sold and the new [...]
Company Profiles
You may think of Publix Super Markets as a highly successful grocery store chain, but to people inside the business, it is something else: a personality that carefully grooms itself and constantly works to stay ahead of its rivals.
Success Stories
The faces in the Cade Museum’s Facebook video said it all. As about a dozen fourth to fifth grade students looked on, a demonstrator at the Porters Community Center showed the principle of heat rising by setting a teabag on fire. The youngsters gasped as the flaming paper rose slowly toward the ceiling. “Wow!” That [...]
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The Alachua County Library District is hopping on the solar electric bandwagon with two 100,000-watt projects that will generate much need revenue. The first project, which spans much of the southern roof of the main library, had just been completed and work is expected to start soon on the roof of the Millhopper Branch. In [...]
We honor the first class in our Leadership Hall of Fame
