SINGAPORE – Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries on Sunday signed the world’s biggest free trade deal, seen as a huge coup for China in extending its influence, Industry Week reports Monday The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ...
SCHAUMBURG, IL – The October results of the monthly TMA Midwest Manufacturers’ Outlook Report are in, and they paint a clear picture showing Illinois’ manufacturers are increasingly optimistic about the national economy. The Midwest Manufacturers’ ...
SPRINGFIELD – Advanced manufacturing is drawing attention as a prime career for those seeking apprenticeships. The Illinois Department of Labor is joining with the U.S. Department of Labor in recognizing the sixth annual National Apprenticeship Week, ...
Manufacturers are typically multi-faceted people – focused mostly on their work, their employees and their businesses. Tom Simeone, president of Manor Tool and Manufacturing Company in Schiller Park, Illinois, not only oversees his growing second-generation ...
Seven Illinois business owners were willing to share publicly how amending the Illinois Constitution to initiate a progressive tax would be detrimental to their employees and their businesses. The constitutional change will be on the ...
For 20 years as a physical therapist with a large corporation, Denise Smith worked hard to help hurting people. She loved working with people, but when she began climbing up the corporate ladder into managerial ...
The very week the COVID lockdown hit Illinois, Rene Hernandez Jr. began filing paperwork to launch a small business. “Who starts a business when a pandemic is hitting? We didn’t know what it all meant. ...
The company Peter Orum and his wife Irma started in 1969 now employs 300 people during Chicagoland’s growing season. The Orums planted Midwest Groundcovers’ roots into five acres in St. Charles, Illinois. 51 years later, ...
Twenty-eight years ago, Teresa Beach-Shelow and her husband, Thom, started Superior Joining Technologies, Inc. (SJTI), in their garage. They had a vision of a family-run business where their employees were like family, helping make important ...
Amy Morgan, owner of Le Fleur Floral Design & Events in Washington, Illinois, says buying the business seven years ago was a “selfish decision” to pursue a childhood dream. But her dream wasn’t easy to ...
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