Archive for the 'Small business' Category
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Jason Sheer is a hands-on businessman in the truest sense.
“I’ve got the hammer in my hand and we are going at it,” the co-owner of the Tin Roof said Tuesday in a telephone interview.
Sheer was working at South Limestone and Maxwell streets where the live-music restaurant chain is about to open its newest location, probably [...]
Categories: Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Small business, University of Kentucky
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
“Norman” might have been Lexington’s earliest winter casualty.
During the city’s first significant snowstorm a couple of weeks ago, a car jumped the curb in front of 203 South Limestone Street “and just hit him and killed him stone dead,” said Liza Hendley Betz. “Everybody was just heart-broken.”
You see, Norman is the 3-foot tall wooden leprechaun [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, International trade, Small business
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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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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Imagine not having to leave your seat and stand in line to get food and drink during University of Kentucky games at Rupp Arena.
The Cats always make a big play when your back is turned and if you wait for halftime, the crowds are huge.
Collin Wallace and David Ward have got you covered.
They are co-founders [...]
Categories: Basketball, Business of sports, Hospitality, New services, Small business
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
“We are hearing a lot of horror stories” because of the recession, says Gene Williams, a partner in Natasha’s Bistro & Bar on The Esplanade downtown. “This is actually good news.”
Natasha’s is finishing a remodeling of its physical space and a restructuring of its business to create what Williams calls a “hybrid restaurant” that is in [...]
Categories: Economy, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Environment, Hospitality, Small business
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
It’s a dream come true, especially for college students.
Think about it: Hot cookies and brownies, and cold milk delivered to your door or dorm in the evening or early morning.
Insomnia Cookies has arrived in Lexington and anyone within a three-mile radius of the University of Kentucky can have this dream come true by making a [...]
Categories: Hospitality, Modern life, New services, Small business, University of Kentucky
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
You know how it goes. You’re on a business trip. Your laundry starts piling up. You stuff it in one of those hotel laundry bags and drop it in the hall outside your room. A day or two later, your clothing comes back cleaned and pressed.
The one thing you usually don’t do is to check [...]
Categories: Horses, International trade, Modern life, Small business, World Equestrian Games
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Kentucky usually lands only one or two companies on the Inc. 500 list of the nation’s fastest growing small businesses.
This year, the total was one: No. 47, Integrity Asset Management of Louisville.
But there’s another company on the list that, as the older generation might say, bears watching. It’s No. 12, Hollingsworth Capital Partners in Clinton, [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Real estate, Realtors, Small business
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Politicians are known for wind power, but they have met their match at the Democratic National Convention.
The Pepsi Center in Denver uses two 24-foot Big Ass Fans to keep the temperature the same throughout the arena, the Lexington company says.
The fans were installed two years ago to prevent heated air from rising to the ceiling [...]
Categories: Big Ass Fans, Environment, Kentucky products, Small business
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