Jan 11, 2021 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, In The News
On Sunday, December 27, President Trump signed into law a nearly 6,000-page end-of-year legislative package that included 12 FY 2021 spending bills totaling $1.4 trillion, a $908 billion COVID-19 relief package, the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), and an...
Sep 25, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA
Publix Super Markets expects to complete the rollout of contactless payment to all of its more than 1,200 stores in the Southeast. Lakeland, Fla.-based Publix said yesterday the deployment provides an extra safety measure for customers and store associates amid the...
Aug 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
Tyson Foods is launching weekly on-site coronavirus testing for employees at all 140 of its U.S. production facilities, making it one of the first major American employers to commit to such regular and expansive testing of its workforce. The food conglomerate behind...
Jul 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
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...
Jun 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA
Our company was founded by my grandpa in 1953 as Seneca Sawmill. We are now owned by my mother and my two aunts. We have grown over the years and we now have 168,000 acres of timberlands that we manage sustainably (we have 92% more timber on that land than we had 25...
May 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News, Taxes
What to Expect in Next Economic Recovery Package House Democrats’ Opening Bid—The HEROES Act Only four days after its May 12 introduction, the House narrowly approved the HEROES Act (H.R.6800), 208-199. The legislation contains Democratic policy priorities, including...
May 21, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
As part of its ongoing response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, family-owned Mars, Incorporated has today shared an update on actions to better support the communities in which it operates, and the most vulnerable in its extended supply chains. The new commitment...
May 19, 2020 | Family Enterprise USA, In The News
By Hedda Schuapak, Family Business Magazine. NextGens’ innovative ideas can revitalizes their family companies. Here are three examples. When twin sisters Jenny Dinnen and Katie Rucker took over MacKenzie Corp., an analytics firm in Lake Forest, Calif., in 2013,...
Apr 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Stories, Family Businesses, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
There is one word I typically avoid and usually cringe when it is 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 should be...
Apr 21, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Enterprise USA, In The News
The U.S. Congress is expected this week to reach agreement on and pass a bill to add hundreds of billions of dollars in fresh funding to the CARES Act’s small business lending account, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which ran out of money last week. The...
