Category: Business

Meta is putting one of its most talked-about new products directly into the hands of small business owners, expanding access to a tool that until now has largely been the province of larger advertisers and early testers. The move reflects a familiar strategy for the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp: build a feature that…

India’s largest business houses have long been defined by two things: longevity and family. Many trace their roots back a century or more, spanning industries from steel and chemicals to consumer goods, real estate and finance. And most remain, at their core, family enterprises — controlled through a web of holding companies, trusts and cross-shareholdings…

Three Decades In, a North Georgia Shop Keeps Mexican Western Wear Tradition Alive For 30 years, a family-run business in north Georgia has been outfitting customers in boots, hats and belts rooted in Mexican Western tradition — a milestone the shop is marking this year as a testament to both staying power and community. The…

McDonald’s is best known for selling burgers and fries. Increasingly, it also wants to sell advertising. According to a report from ADWEEK, the fast-food giant is pursuing an ambitious goal: building an advertising business worth roughly $1 billion. The move would place the world’s largest restaurant chain squarely in the middle of one of the…

American businesses are expanding at their fastest pace in more than five years, according to closely watched survey data released Wednesday — but the same report showed price pressures intensifying, complicating the outlook for the Federal Reserve. The monthly purchasing managers’ survey, which tracks activity across manufacturing and services firms, pointed to the strongest overall…

For most of the past decade, Joanna Gaines has been the public face of Magnolia — the design eye behind the shiplap, the calm voice narrating renovations, the name on the home goods, the bakery, the magazine, and eventually a television network. What she was not, by her own telling, was the person at the…

Veteran Chicago real estate investor Quintin Primo III is in discussions to join the development team behind the long-delayed redevelopment of the former Michael Reese Hospital site on the city’s South Side, according to a report from Crain’s Chicago Business. Primo, the co-founder and executive chairman of Capri Investment Group, is one of the most…

Small Business Community Pushes Back on SBA Size Standard Proposal A Small Business Administration proposal to revise how it defines a small business is drawing a wave of criticism from the very community it is meant to serve, according to feedback submitted during the agency’s public comment period. The response has been running mostly negative,…

American businesses are being pressed from several directions at once, and for many of them the math is no longer working. Tariffs have raised the landed cost of imported components and finished goods. Fuel prices have climbed, pushing up the cost of moving those goods once they arrive. And interest rates remain high enough that…

Five years after the pandemic upended Main Street, a growing number of American small business owners say the pressures they face today feel worse than the ones that shuttered their doors in 2020. That sentiment — captured in the stark phrase “a crisis even bigger than Covid” — reflects a frustration that has been building…