Jul 23, 2020 | Blog, Family Businesses
Inspiration had struck, and Melissa Johnson was going with it. “As I’ve grown older, I can’t say I’ve necessarily grown wiser. I know there is a whole lot I don’t know,” she wrote in a Facebook post one recent Friday. “The only thing I know for sure is that an act of...
Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Family Businesses
As soon as people nationwide began staying home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they began watching movies. And then, they started popping popcorn. That has been a bright spot amid the pandemic for JOLLY TIME Pop Corn, a century-old family business based in Sioux...
Jul 19, 2020 | Blog, Family Businesses
June 5, 2020 – President Trump visited Guilford, Maine today, and toured the Puritan Medical Products headquarters. During his remarks, the President championed his Administration’s use of the Defense Production Act to bolster American manufacturing capabilities and...
Jul 17, 2020 | Blog, Family Businesses
With nearly three decades of financial advising behind her, Mary J. Howard knows a lot about helping others navigate uncertainty and plan for the future. Her daughter, Megan, is now learning the same alongside her as their team has been working closely with clients to...
Jun 16, 2020 | Blog, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey sheds light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth. Legislators must know what is important to family business owners — what helps or hurts them when it comes to operating their businesses and creating...
Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
There’s one word I typically avoid and usually cringe when it’s used: unprecedented. Its inclusion is for dramatic effect, of course. And while it can technically be used to connote an event or item that is unique, atypical, or abnormal, for me, it really...
