Rockland Business Digest

Volume 1, Issue 6
Table of Contents

Cover Story:
Small Business is BIG Business
In Rockland, small businesses are the engine that drives the economy

RBD Round-Up:
How'd He Do That?
The interesting rise of Mal McLaren
RBD Business Survey
How do you communicate?

DEPARTMENTS:

Economic Round-Up
• The Smart Investor
Your portfolio is doing great, so why rebalance?
• Economic Viewpoint
The U.S. Attraction Factor

Business Round-Up
• Down, But Not Dirty
The best way to handle company layoffs is to provide options
• Marketing By Design
The top 15 campaigns of the last 100 years. You know them all, but why?
• Receivables
One of the largest headaches for small businesses

Ask The Experts
• Talking Taxes
• Payroll: Key Issues
• Workplace Hotline

Invest in Your Community
• Where's the Fire?
Rockland Volunteers - increasing efforts and awareness

Odds & Ends
• The Last Minute
• Rockland Newsmakers

Dedicated Section:
Rockland Business Association:

The President’s Desk
New Healthcare Tax
will hurt small and midsized businesses. Here's how.

RBA/United Way Golf Outing
The Rockland Open: Monday, May 21st

RBA Happenings
• Committee and Council Info
• Calendar of Events
• New Members

Advertiser Index

• Full-Page Advertisers
• Additonal Advertisers
• Marketplace

Rockland Business Digest
Volume 1, Issue 6

9/7/2008 8:06:36 PM

At The Last Minute
Rockland County News at Printing

• Clinton and Schumer speak at legislators’ breakfast (read more)

• Romolo’s restaurant is changing hands (read more)

• Home Prices are down 2% in the Hudson Valley (read more)

• Ramapo Town Board rejects senior project (read more)

• Study to determine the worth of non- profit organizations (read more)

Cover Story
Small Business is
BIG Business
In Rockland, small businesses are the engine that drives the economy.

Keith Styles has one employee; Juliet Stewart has three; George Slavis at Eastern State Tire has a little over two dozen; Gene Cortes, who was recently named the SBA Small Business Person of the Year by the SBA’s New York City District, runs his business, Clarkstown International Collision, Inc., an auto collision repair business in Nanuet, with his wife, their three daughters and 27 employees. Robert Riccardelli, has 40 to 50 employees at his company Times Square Lighting. (read more)

Featured Story
How'd He Do That?
From underwater to being on top
of the world: The interesting rise
of Mal McLaren

Malcolm McLaren has one of the most successful firms in Rockland County, an engineering firm whose scope reaches from marine engineering to the Broadway stage; from floating ferry piers to designing sets for the Rolling Stones and Red Hot Chili Peppers; from devising the whiz-bang technotronics behind the Twister attraction at Universal Studios to restoration work on the Mormon Tabernacle. McLaren Engineering Group also has a roster of local projects that have made an impact on Rockland County, where he lives in Blauvelt, including the September 11 memorial in Haverstraw Bay Park. (read more)



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