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Low-NOx systems and DFR burners may seem like scientific jargon to the average consumer, but to Kusum Kavia, chief operating officer of Combustion Associates, Inc. (CAI), it is familiar terminology. For the 55-year-old entrepreneur, running a thriving engineering and manufacturing company has been a learning experience. “There are very few women in this type of business,” says Kavia.
Long a resourceful designer and seller of retail displays and convention booths, Alison Wainwright was known as the “Go-to Girl” at the busy Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. One day, someone called to find out if she knew where to get a rental mannequin. And even though she didn’t really know where to go, she said yes, found a mannequin, and rented it to the new client.
Outside the federal government, the food retail and wholesale industry is one of the largest employers in the United States. Like most businesses, these supermarkets and convenience stores need services and supplies to conduct everyday operations, but unlike most, they carry an average of 38,718 salable items. For minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) offering services, supplies and consumer products, this represents a vast opportunity. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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There has been a flurry of bills introduced in the last two months to address the need for increased participation of minority and women businesses in the government contracting process. Some of these are discussed in this issue’s Eye on Washington (page 34). Others have since dropped onto our radar.
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Waggener Edstrom, a global, integrated communications agency, has partnered with tenfour, a minority-owned, Portland, Oregon-based creative agency, to bring Tweet-A-Beer to life. Tweet-A-Beer is a mobile web app that helps people network and socialize by purchasing each other a beer over Twitter, perfect for those following through the Twittersphere. Tweet-A-Beer is the first app to enable personal ecommerce via Twitter.
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Fourteen women business leaders were selected to receive the nation’s premier award for excellence among women’s business enterprises (WBEs), the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) WBE Stars, bestowed by the WBENC at its Salute to Women’s Business Enterprises Celebrating 15 Years: Vision, Opportunities, and Success! held in March before 1,000 corporate executives, WBEs and ....
In Brief
In the first known court challenge of a Veterans Administration (VA) Small Disabled-Veteran Office of Small Business (SDVOSB) verification denial, a federal judge granted plaintiff CS360's Motion for Summary Judgment by remanding the denial back to the agency based on the VA's failure to provide a satisfactory contemporaneous explanation for its decision to deny CS360's application for inclusion in the VetBiz Vendors Information Pages (VIP) database...
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