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For Companies Hit by Katrina, Many Challenges Remain

By Angus Loten |  Aug 28, 2006

Half of New Orleans business owners say recovery efforts are making little or no progress.  Read story

Attempts To Help Amid The Chaos

By Angus Loten |  Sep 1, 2005

September 1, 2005 --Sounding haggard, Jim Brown is still waiting to hear from a shrimp farmer in Bayou La Batre, Ala. When Read story

Two Years After Katrina, New Orleans Businesses "Running on Fumes"

By Angus Loten |  Aug 28, 2007

The Crescent City is still struggling with population loss, crime, and crippled infrastructure.  Read story

Serving Up Success

By Patrick J. Sauer |  Jan 1, 2007

In February 2004, Aaron Kennedy, founder of restaurant chain Noodles & Co. , based in Boulde...  Read story

To Franchise, or Not To Franchise

By Rod Kurtz |  Feb 1, 2004

A restaurateur ponders taking the leap into franchising.  Read story

The Taming of the Crew

By Leigh Buchanan |  Aug 1, 1999

Jerry Strahan, general manager of street-vendor Lucky Dogs, has spent nearly 30 years shepherding a staff of vagrants, thieves, and other miscreants. A lesso...  Read story

The Customer is the Company

By Max Chafkin |  Jun 1, 2008

Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve...  Read story

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