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If you’re interested in taking your business to the next level, it’s time to find yourself a merchant services provider. These days, brick and mortar mom and pop stores are closing left and right – often because they haven’t been willing to make the jump into the future and offer credit card and other electronic forms of payment processing.

Cash has virtually become a thing of the past, replaced by tiny pieces of plastic and electronic payment systems that enable customers to simply choose, swipe and purchase in a few short minutes. Gone are the days of making change, of counting pennies and dimes into a waiting hand. Today’s

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Tags: Merchant, Merchant Accounts

Small businesses are innovators so it’s no surprise that today, patents and trademarks are important considerations for small entrepreneurs as tools to protect new products and new ideas. How can you best protect your greatest innovation or that which sets your product or service apart? Read on to understand how patents and trademarks are important to your small business today.

Policy

Is a change in patent law good for small business? No, say a bi-partisan group of small business and intellectual property advocates who fear the new overhaul passed in the U.S. House will favor big business and start a race to the patent office that disregards who originated a product or process. The la

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Tags: Small Business, Trademark

When you start a new business, you obviously start with an idea. But a critical ingredient for success is understanding your “why”. Why do you do what you do? It’s amazing how many business owners and their teams go through the motions of running their businesses on a day-to-day basis without ever understanding the purpose behind what they are doing. You might as well be a zombie. Businesses without a purpose don’t have heart. They don’t stand for anything, and as a result, they don’t stand out from other, similar businesses, either. Successful business owners both understand their purpose and can articulate it to their team, their customers, their investors—in fact, to the world.

Think about the business brands you love. Don’t you hav

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EVANSVILLE — According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service news release, Big B Distributors, Inc. of Evansville has recalled approximately 5,160 pounds of Moonlite Bar-B-Q burgoo because it was misbranded and contained an undeclared allergen.

The product was prepared using a spice blend containing sodium caseinate, a milk protein and known allergen, which was not declared on the label, according to the FSIS.

The recalled products included both 16- and 32-ounce bottles of burgoo.

Currently, there are no reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products, according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service.

“What happened was the spice company changed the ingredients, nobody knew it and the labels didn’t address it,” said Richard Bonenberger, Vice President of Big B Distributors. “The si

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Tags: Recalled, Recalled Allergen

Our view: Avoid

Share price: 250.4p (-24.2p)

On the face of it, Premier Farnell, the distributor of electrical products, is doing OK. Yesterday, the company reported adjusted pre-tax profits of 28.5m, up 13 per cent, on adjusted revenues of 252.5m, up 8 per cent. The “adjusted” is there because the company has stripped out the contribution of of TPC Wire & Cable, which was sold at the start of the quarter, from the comparisons.

The performance of the UK, which showed revenues up 16 per cent, and the US, where revenues were up just over 5 per cent but profits surged by 52 per cent thanks to a sharp improvement in margins, caught the eye.

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Tags: Farnell, Premier Farnell