Archive for the 'Family businesses' Category
Friday, December 26th, 2008
Pittsburgh Steelers fans should get to know Royce Pulliam. He’s about to get connected with the best seats in Heinz Field, where the Steelers play their home games.
Here’s how it works.
Pulliam is the founder and chief executive of the Lexington-based Urban Active Fitness chain.
Urban Active is partially owned by Laurel Crown Partners LLC, a Los [...]
Categories: Business of sports, Entrepreneurs, Family businesses, Football
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
The problem is in the name.
They are “Christmas tree farms” so naturally we think they are in rural areas.
Actually, three of the 22 Christmas tree farms in Kentucky are in Lexington and one is in Louisville, according to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
These farms are a mile or two from the suburbs or maybe on [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Family businesses, Farming, Kentucky products, Small business
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Here’s something to chew on as you eat your next turkey sandwich at Subway: The bird you are digesting might have been a runner-up to a turkey “pardoned” just before Thanksgiving by President Bush.
But there’s more.
Your Subway turkey was raised on feed products made by Nicholasville-based Alltech, chief sponsor of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian [...]
Categories: Alltech, Family businesses, Farming, Kentucky products, World Equestrian Games
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Like the old song says, “All the boys will sing and the girls will shout and the ladies they will all turn out” when the No. 66 Hunt Brothers Chevrolet rolls into Paris on Aug. 26 and Frankfort on Aug. 27.
Some will turn out to see a new addition to NASCAR racing while others will [...]
Categories: Automotive, Business of sports, Entrepreneurs, Family businesses, Marketing, Religion
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
The sacred and secular collided in Flatbush, N.Y., last week, and both came away winners.
Our Lady of Refuge Church got a 24-foot fan to cool its sanctuary and Lexington’s Big Ass Fan Co. got national publicity from its “wicked name,” said the New York Daily News.
“Oh my gosh!” church administrator Judy Agard told the Daily [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Family businesses, Marketing, Religion
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Lowell and Betty Nigoff had thought about retiring, but their thinking turned serious when they were introduced to Lexington residents Rob and Suzanne Morris through a mutual friend.
“After getting to know this younger couple, we decided we would entrust Lowell’s to them,” the Nigoffs said in an email to their friends and customers.
They have sold [...]
Categories: Automotive, Careers, Entrepreneurs, Family businesses, People, Uncategorized
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Two wheels can be as good as four when your car is in the shop and you need to get to school or work.
So last Monday, Lowell’s Bluegrass Automotive began giving its customers another option besides loaner cars and shuttle services.
They can now borrow a bicycle at the Mechanic Street garage.
“Customers who work downtown or [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Family businesses, New services
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Spalding’s Bakery in Lexington was honored Friday by MSN.com for making some of the best doughnuts in America, but “it was a surprise to me,” says owner Martha Edwards.
She was so busy baking and selling at the Winchester Road business that “I haven’t had a chance to turn on the computer to check it out.”
Other [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Spalding’s Bakery in Lexington was honored Friday by MSN.com for making some of the best doughnuts in America, but “it was a surprise to me,” says owner Martha Edwards.
She was so busy baking and selling at the Winchester Road business that “I haven’t had a chance to turn on the computer to check it out.”
Other [...]
Categories: Family businesses
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Donald E. Graham admits with a smile that he is chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Co. because his family owns the business.
His grandfather, Eugene Meyer, bought the Post in 1933 and his mother, Katharine Meyer Graham, ran it until her death in 2001.
Speaking Tuesday at the University of Kentucky, Donald Graham said he [...]
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