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The Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Small Business Center is part of the state network. Each year, the centers assist in starting an average of 650 businesses and help create and retain more than 3,000 jobs. The small business center Network is known as the most expansive state-funded technical small business assistance program in the United States.
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2 years ago Read more at Salisbury Post

Becky Lain owns Creative Nails and Hair which operates out of the building that partially collapsed on Main Street in Caon City. Lain tells me she is left with several questions after a back wall of her building collapsed tuesday night. Officials with the city say they will begin assessing the damage in the coming days.
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2 years ago Read more at KKTV

Frank Ofonagoro joins Opus to lead a dedicated team committed to business support, restructuring and insolvency advice. The Opus Business Advisory Group has a head count of over 100 and 29 Partners across 14 regional offices.
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2 years ago Read more at Consultancy.uk

Kenya will finally license the Uganda National Oil Company (Unoc) the CS’s revelations came days after a case filed at the High Court in Machakos to block the licensing of Unoc was withdrawn. Sources said the licence is likely to be issued next month. Uganda went to the regional court in December last year to fight for the licence that would allow the use of KPC's infrastructure. The licensing could end the dispute and allow Unoc to buy fuel from Vitol Bahrain.
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2 years ago Read more at Business Daily

PHOTO | BONFACE BOGITA | NMG By NDUGU ABISAI More by this Author Every year, Kenyans send hundreds of billions of shillings home using non-inclusive banking and financial services. For most, they have no choice but to make do with the available system. Before the entrepreneurship bug bit him, he had a plum job at the World Bank in the US as an analyst.
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2 years ago Read more at Business Daily

China has injected $11 billion in various projects that have created at least 144,726 jobs for Tanzanians. The investment is expected to generate nearly 2,000 permanent and part-time jobs. In the agriculture sector, investors plan to establish power tiller and trailer assembly plants.
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2 years ago Read more at The Citizen

The introduction of a Through Bill of Lading (TBL) is reported to have dealt a major blow to the once-lucrative mode of cargo transportation in the region. The fall out in business among the lorry owners is contained in a recent report tabled before the regional Assembly at its sitting in Nairobi.
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2 years ago Read more at The Citizen

New Zealand ANZ Business Confidence fell from 34.7 to 22.9 in March. Own Activity Outlook fell from 29.5 to 22.5. Inflation expectations fell from 4.03% to 3.80%. Cost expectations rose from 73.5 to 74.6. Wage expectations rose sharply from 6.2 to -3.8.
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2 years ago Read more at Action Forex

HSBC introduces $150m Venture Debt offering in Singapore. This will support various funding requirements with a tenor of up to three years. The offering will provide flexible funding arrangements for high-growth companies.
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2 years ago Read more at Singapore Business Review

Nigeria’s economic environment has made it difficult for companies to hedge against the continued depreciation of the local currency. Mr Osho said that although the tools are there, there is no liquidity. All the companies that declared huge foreign (forex) losses, it is not as if the CFOs didn’t know what to do or have a way around it.
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2 years ago Read more at Vanguard