American Film Market participants are grounded this year due to restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 virus and the market going virtual. Those factors have resulted in significant economic fallout for Santa Monica, the confab’s seaside home. There will be no power breakfast at Cora’s Coffee Shoppe; Santa Monica’s 29 […]
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Rain, wind, and cooler temperatures are in the forecast this weekend. San Diego businesses operating outdoors for the pandemic are making plans to stay dry. Since the pandemic started businesses in San Diego have had to get creative to stay afloat. Arthur Boia started PB Yogs […]
LANSING, Mich. — Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced today that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is making Economic Injury Disaster Loans of up to $2 million available to eligible small businesses, agricultural cooperatives, and nonprofits impacted by excessive rain that occurred Oct. 1, 2019 through June 3, 2020. SBA extended the loans following the Secretarial Disaster Declaration obtained by Governor Whitmer from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue last year. “This is welcome news for Michigan […]
Travel businesses have told The Telegraph that the industry will be “torn to pieces” by the new lockdown measures, which will outlaw all non-essential movement from Thursday. The new rules will last until at least December 2, rendering all holidays and leisure travel off-limits – both in the UK and […]
British retailers, bars and restaurants were furious on Saturday evening at being ordered to close in the run up to the crucial Christmas trading period. The tightening of measures will further dampen Britons’ spending confidence, many companies fear, and could put them off from going into shops even if non-essential retailers reopen before […]
CHIPPEWA VALLEY, Wis. (WEAU) -Ruff Life Pet Hotel in Lake Hallie is celebrating one year in business this Sunday. Owner Stavroula McCormick says even though more people are working from home, more dogs are coming their way. “We have seen an increase in day-boarding just people working from home and […]
APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) – Many retailers depend on the holiday shopping season for some of their biggest earnings. This year, because of the pandemic, small shops are relying on holiday-time business more than ever. Appleton Downtown Inc. created a Support Local 920 campaign to help. “It puts a challenge and […]
TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — The pandemic is hitting businesses hard and even though they’ve reopened, some of them are struggling. Some of it has to do with online shopping, but something else is missing. Our winter migration of snowbirds has not seen the same numbers as previous years. They just […]
People lit up the earthen lamps on all the ghats of the river Ganga during Dev Deepawali festival in Varanasi, India. Indranil Aditya | NurPhoto | Getty Images Indian businesses are stocking up more ahead of this year’s big festival season than at any time in the last five years, […]
“The communities that do have recreation are much better off than those that don’t have recreation,” said Noah Wilson, program director for the Growing Outdoors Partnership of outdoors businesses in Western North Carolina. “If we didn’t have these mountains and we didn’t have the recreation opportunities we have here, we […]