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Glovo Seals €100 Million Partnership To Expand 'Dark Stores' Business
A rider of Glovo working during the Covid-19 / Coronavirus crisis in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on ... [+] November 6, 2020 (Photo by Albert Llop/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Glovo is heavily ramping up its dark stores business through a €100 million partnership with Swiss real estate investment firm Stoneweg.
Under the terms of the new partnership, Stoneweg will use Glovo data to select warehouses in certain markets to buy, these units are then rented out to Glovo to operate as dark stores.
C.E.O.s, Former Officials Call for a Post-Trump Globalism Revival - The New York Times
"Business leaders must realize that they not only have a moral obligation but also a commercial stake in advocating for a fairer, more equitable system. Unless and until the core problem of inequality is addressed, all other overarching objectives and desires will remain elusive."
The memo comes from an under-the-radar group of global boldfaced names that act as a private advisory committee to JPMorgan Chase. They include Tony Blair, the former British prime minister; Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger, two former secretaries of state; Robert Gates, the former secretary of defense; Alex Gorsky, chief executive of Johnson & Johnson; Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH; and Joseph C. Tsai, executive vice chairman of Alibaba, among others.
Tuesday's business headlines - WISH-TV | Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana
The IRS urged Americans to file their taxes electronically this year as the agency deals with a backlog of nearly 7 million unprocessed paper returns from last year.
The IRS announced that it was delaying the start of the 2021 tax season, which usually begins at the end of January to Feb. 12 to prevents further backlogs.
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The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has increased by five cents to $2.36, which is eight cents more than a week ago, 20 cents more than a month ago.
Quite a lot has been going on:
JOHN NEWBY: Small business success equals community success | Syndicated | starherald.com
If you haven't figured it out, I enjoy quotes by great people. This week I again use a quote by Albert Einstein, he said "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." Simply put, we need to alter our traditional thinking to enact and facilitate change within our community.
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After a year like 2020, which impacted so many small businesses and communities, it is important that we remind ourselves of the true value small business brings to our community. Analyst Nick Rokke, of the Palm Beach Daily, recently indicated some great small business facts. Small businesses make up 99.7% of U.S. firms. They employ 49% of all Americans and create 64% of all new jobs. Let those figures sink in!
Fredonia looking to expand business park | Business | gmtoday.com
FREDONIA — The village of Fredonia is considering all possibilities for how it could bring beneficial development into the community, including residential development, expanding the village's business park and the possibility of using tax incremental financing to encourage developers to choose Fredonia.
The village's Finance and Budget Committee met last week to discuss business park development. The meeting was held in closed session for negotiation purposes, as is allowed under open meeting law; Fredonia Village Clerk Sandi Tretow said the village is in the very early stages of discussing ways the village's business park could be expanded, and much of the information is not yet available to the public.
After months of declining earnings, Indiana small business confidence plunges by 24 points |
After months of sagging revenue, Indiana small business confidence plunged by 24 points in December, according to a National Federation of Independent Business survey.
Small business owners across the Hoosier state expecting business conditions to improve over the next six months plummeted to a net negative 16% last month. Meanwhile, the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index fell 5.5 points in December to 95.9, with nine of 10 Index components declining.
Poll: 82% Of Americans Want More Small Business Aid, 72% Want Stimulus Checks From Biden
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during day two of laying out his plan on combating the ... [+] coronavirus at the Queen theater January 15, 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Of the 2,200 adults polled, 82% said small business aid should be a "top" or "important, but lower" priority for the new administration.
Another round of stimulus checks was a close second, with 79% of respondents saying that provision should be a priority for Biden.
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