Parents of Teenage Drivers, Take Note Limousines from Las Vegas Transportation are now equipped with the latest video technology from DriveCam Video Systems. DriveCam is a palm-sized video recorder mounted behind a vehicle’s rearview mirror that records what a driver sees and hears during unusual driving incidents. The device monitors driving activity by continuously recording … [Read more...] about November 2001: Business Up Front
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November 2001: Face to Face
Name: Robbie Graham Title: President Company: Nevada Title Company Location: Las Vegas Type of Business: Title Insurance and Escrow Services. Founded in 1979, it is the largest locally-owned title company in Nevada. Years in Nevada: 26 Years with Company: 22 Biggest Business Challenge: Revamping our company structure and corporate culture in response to … [Read more...] about November 2001: Face to Face
November 2001: Nevada Briefs
Tourism Group Tackles Post-Terrorist Issues A task force of tourism industry leaders has been created to exchange information and ideas in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt appointed the eight-member Tourism Stability Task Force "to create a short-term plan that will help shore up and stabilize Nevada’s tourism economy." Task force … [Read more...] about November 2001: Nevada Briefs
November 2001: Business Indicators
The data on this page predate the terrorist attacks of September 11. Generally speaking, the national and regional economies show mixed conditions. With the events of September 11, however, expectations of recession have developed. Consumers have joined investors in taking a more cautious outlook in making future expenditures. The most recent data reveal similar conditions … [Read more...] about November 2001: Business Indicators
October 2001: Building Nevada Briefs
United Construction Company earned the Nevada Chapter Associated General Contractors’ (AGC) Golden Hard Hat Award recognizing the AGC member with the best overall safety record in Northern Nevada. United Construction Company earned the award because of its exemplary safety record for the year, with no time lost due to on-the-job injuries. AGC’s safety award winners are chosen … [Read more...] about October 2001: Building Nevada Briefs
October 2001: Business Up Front
TIME BANDITS Survey Finds Time Management A Top Concern If time is money, financial executives are in the red, a new survey suggests. Thirty-six percent of chief financial officers (CFOs) polled said time management is the greatest challenge facing executives today. Keeping pace with technology followed, with 27 percent of the response. The survey was developed by RHI … [Read more...] about October 2001: Business Up Front
October 2001: Face to Face
Name: R. Michael Lee Title: Owner/President Company: Lee Bros. Leesing, Inc. Location: Reno Type of Business: Automotive Leasing, Sales & Equipment Years in Nevada: Native (48 years) Years with Company: 25 Biggest Business Challenge: Going from a handshake to a contract - Reno used to be a small town. Growing with and functioning in the information … [Read more...] about October 2001: Face to Face
October 2001: Nevada Briefs
LST Investments Acquires Clayton Mortgage Clayton Mortgage, a Las Vegas mortgage brokerage firm, was recently purchased by LST Investments LLC. Principals of LST Investments are (from left) Michael Saltman, Jerry Trenberth and Laura Clayton Lychock. LST bought the company from CDR Corporation, owned by Lychock’s father, Bob Clayton. Saltman and his company, The Vista Group, … [Read more...] about October 2001: Nevada Briefs
October 2001: Business Indicators
Stock-market analysts continue to speak in terms of a recession. Stock-prices indexes are down substantially from the peak of 2000. The overall U.S. economy, however, continues to grow, though at a modest rate. The official definition of a recession requires two quarters of decline of the overall economy. As of the second quarter 2001, the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, adjusted … [Read more...] about October 2001: Business Indicators
September 2001: Building Nevada Briefs
Harsch Expands Chinatown Plaza Harsch Investment Properties has begun renovation on The Center at Spring Mountain, located on Spring Mountain Road adjacent to Chinatown Plaza in Las Vegas. The three-building, 385,000-square foot center will more than double the size of Chinatown when its façade is reconstructed with an Asian architectural design. WPH Architecture Inc. served … [Read more...] about September 2001: Building Nevada Briefs
September 2001: Business Indicators
Amid the flurry of gyrating stock-market activity, the U.S. economic expansion continues, albeit at a modest pace. Second-quarter preliminary estimates put the growth rate of inflation-adjusted gross domestic product at less than 1 percent, following a first-quarter expansion of only 1.2 percent. Many of the new high-tech firms have folded, and some of the older firms have … [Read more...] about September 2001: Business Indicators
September 2001: Business Up Front
Top Ten Mistakes in Business E-mail John Zipperer of the Commercial Investment Real Estate Journal provides the following words to the wise regarding e-mail mistakes: 1. Sending a Novel — Don’t send long e-mail unless you have a previous agreement with the recipient. Your contacts will thank you for keeping messages short and sweet, and you will have a better chance of them … [Read more...] about September 2001: Business Up Front
September 2001: Face to Face
Name: Joel F. Bower, M.D. Title: Vice President Medical Affairs Company: St. Rose Dominican Hospital Location: Henderson Type of Business: Hospital. St. Rose has operated a 143-bed hospital in Henderson since 1947, and its new 141-bed Siena campus opened in 2000. Years in Nevada: 30 Years with Company: 30 Biggest Business Challenge: Developing the … [Read more...] about September 2001: Face to Face
September 2001: Nevada Briefs
Manufacturing Plant Opens in Sparks Blackhawk Molding Company has opened a 42,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at 990 Deming Way in Sparks. The plant is dedicated to the manufacture of plastic bottle caps used in the water, dairy, juice and other food industries. The plant is expected to employ 75 people by the end of its first year of operation. It will supply a … [Read more...] about September 2001: Nevada Briefs
August 2001: Business Up Front
Strategies for Dead Horse Riding Thanks to the Regents’ Review, published by the Board of Regents of the University and Community College System of Nevada, for printing the following list of pointers for those who choose to disregard the old adage that says, "When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." We wondered where so many businesses … [Read more...] about August 2001: Business Up Front