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WASHINGTON — Since taking the helm of the Small Business Administration in April, businesswoman Karen Mills has drawn praise for aggressive moves to try to boost lending to small firms amid a deep economic downturn.
Architecture has been hit hard by the recession, with some experts estimating the loss of 40,000 design jobs since 2008. If there's no credit, no one's building. So the firms that survive the downturn will be the ones that succeed in specialty niches, said Tim deNoble, dean of the college of architecture, planning and design at Kansas State University.
After 18 years as a television news reporter and anchor, Anthony Powell has made a clean change in his life. Powell and his wife, Jennifer Voth, bought Cleaning Authority of Central Kansas, a franchise residential cleaning business, from Robinn Scholfield.
It's been 30 years since Wichita's Village Tours & Travel started with one bus hauling skiers from the Denver airport to the slopes.
Complete Landscaping Systems has a new owner. Laura McMurray, who was recently named president and CEO, is the company's new majority owner effective this week.
CHENEY — Sitting comfortably on the customers' side of the bar he had always dreamed of, Hank Sanford looked ahead and saw the future and the past at the same time.
A 13-year-old Wichita computer company is growing, moving into a new 30,000-square-foot South City location as its custom PC business expands.
Beth Tully said she waited until almost the last minute to get an application in for her company to be considered for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Dream Big Small Business of the Year Award.
The Obama administration says that injecting $30 billion into community banks will help get small business growing again.
During its first 50 years in business, Ziegler Electric Service has helped with projects as varied as the Rubbermaid production facility in Winfield and the Butler County Community College dorms.
Ten companies have been named finalists for the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Awards.
An employee is asked to quickly find a thank-you gift for a client during his lunch hour. He stresses about what to get and where to go.
One side of his sign advises that it's time to order Cub Scout pinewood derby and Arrow of Light trophies, but Pete Lungwitz says his business is definitely not a "trophy shop."
"All sorts of crazy stuff" is the motto of Central Plains Novelty — and explains what it is, too.
Limousine and bus companies across Wichita are booking up, thanks to the opening of Intrust Bank Arena. Most major arena event nights are filling up, often on the day of a concert announcement. Operators wonder if the arena business will start encroaching on their corporate, wedding and prom nights.
Gary Poulton never thought there would be a "next level" for his Hog Wild Pit Bar-B-Q restaurant concept.
After owning a local commercial and residential waste collection company, Joel Elsea wanted to find a different way to make an impact on the value of homes in the neighborhoods he was working with.
NEWTON — Stuffed tightly inside a narrow slice of the 1940s is Newton's oldest business.
With seven other cosmetology-related schools in the Wichita area, the Eric Fisher Academy took a chance when it opened in 2007.
WICHITA — Wichita City Council members denied an extension of property tax exemptions for Sharpline Converting on Tuesday because the company only briefly had as many employees as it promised to add when it was granted the initial tax break in 2005.
