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Category: Business Features
Salute to Business
Success isn’t just a matter of sales and profits. These standouts are committed to helping their communities succeed, too.
by Bob Kronemyer
Investing generous time and creative resources to help make their community a better place to work and live is a common thread among the six major winners of the “Salute to Business” competition, sponsored by The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County. …
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Posted in Business, Business Features, Spring 2012
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LaPorte Savings Bank
Small-bank values and a five-star rating.
by Rick A. Richards
LaPorte Savings Bank’s roots run deep in LaPorte County and Northwest Indiana. As far as Chairman and CEO Lee Brady can tell, the bank’s roots are deeper than any other bank in the region still doing business under its original name.
Brady, who has been with the bank for 37 years, says the 140-year-old LaPorte …
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Posted in Banking, Business, Business Features, Finance, Milestone
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Healthy Demand
Northwest Indiana a hot place for a health-care career.
by Bob Kronemyer
With a diversity of educational programs and health-care facilities, Northwest Indiana is a vibrant environment to pursue a caregiver career. Coupled with the latest recession and an aging population, “health-care opportunities are viewed as good career choices,” says Angie Hampton, director of human resources for Porter Hospital and Health System in Valparaiso.
Although …
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Posted in Business, Business Features, Health Care, Special Focus
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Focus: Small Business
The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Northwest Indiana. Small business incubators dot the region’s landscape – from Valparaiso to Hammond, from Merrillville to South Bend.
As the landscape for small business changes from traditional pursuits in manufacturing to high-tech ventures, new questions arise among entrepreneurs on how to ensure success.
To help answer those questions, Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly has asked experts from …
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Minority-owned businesses help drive the economy.
by Michael Puente
Northwest Indiana was buried in snow in early February. Schools and businesses were forced to shut down for several days. The situation in Chicago wasn’t much better, with hundreds of motorists stranded on Lakeshore Drive during the 2011 blizzard.
But even as the region went into a deep freeze, Northwest Indiana saw the launch of a …
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Posted in Business Features, Small Business
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2011 Best of Northwest Indiana Business Winners
Best of Northwest Indiana
Our readers pick their favorites in products, businesses, services and lifestyle.
When Northwest Indiana residents find a good thing, they let people know. And that’s what they’ve been doing since last October, logging into the Northwest Indiana Business Quarterly website and voting for the “Best Of Northwest Indiana Business.”
If it’s a product or service, Northwest Indiana customers and readers of …
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Posted in Business Features
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Personal Touch
For many of the area’s executives, a significant portion of their day is spent in the office. More often than not, they work in formal surroundings with generic photos on the wall. Their functional office furniture offers no insight into their personality.
But sometimes the office reflects the boss’ personal tastes and immediately says something about the person who works there, the company’s history and …
Posted in Business Features, Interior Design
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Legal Q&A
Disputes arise in every type of business—big or small, new or established. Disputes can develop between a business owner and employee or with an independent contractor. And litigation is always costly.
For instance, a dispute could arise over Internet use at work, about what’s being posted and how that might affect a business’s reputation.
How to keep your company from getting embroiled in legal tangles …
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Posted in Business Features, Legal Advice
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Making a Change, Following a Dream
“I can do this” is on the lips and in the mind of every successful man and woman who launches a business. Some take the experience of working for others for years and start up in the same field. Some bravely adopt the phrase after suffering the trauma of job loss. Others simply decide that the time is finally right to follow their dream, not …
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Posted in Business Features, Cover Story
Tagged Business, Chicago, Construction, Indiana, Northwest Indiana, Small business, United States
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Not Just a Game
There is a whole lot more going on at the golf course than hitting a little white ball around.
The game may be the attraction, but chances are good there just might be a business deal being discussed, or perhaps a client is being entertained with the hope of building a relationship for some future time when a deal needs to be consummated.
“You can …
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Posted in Business Features, Regional News
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