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  • The Seven Myths of Exit Planning
    These common misconceptions can derail any succession strategy
    May 1, 2013
    As a business owner, a good exit plan is crucial to profitably transferring ownership of your company. Yet, during conversations with hundreds of successful business owners, I have discovered some common misconceptions surround the exit process.Myth #1: “I will just sell my business and retire.”Fewer than 20 percent of businesses for sale actually sell, according to a study by the American...

  • The Seven Myths of Exit Planning
    These common misconceptions can derail any succession strategy
    April 30, 2013
    As a business owner, a good exit plan is crucial to profitably transferring ownership of your company. Yet, during conversations with hundreds of successful business owners, I have discovered some common misconceptions surround the exit process.Myth #1: “I will just sell my business and retire.”Fewer than 20 percent of businesses for sale actually sell, according to a study by the American...

  • Your profits: Pop quiz
    Does your management system drive sales, profits and employee accountability? Find out here.
    May 7, 2012
    The following quiz is designed to get you thinking about your company, its management and culture. 

  • Between a rock and a hard place
    Glaziers, retailers look to pass on higher costs, even as competitors push bids lower
    July 26, 2011
    Cost increases have dominated the headlines the last several months, with glass and metal suppliers upping prices in response to rising raw material and operating costs. 

  • Mission possible
    A well crafted mission statement can positively impact your bottom line
    September 28, 2010
    Mission statements are a paradox: the most popular management tool of the past 25 years and yet often the least respected. Chances are, as a retail glass company, you have one—framed nicely in the lobby perhaps—but can you recite it? Can your employees?You might be tempted to dismiss a mission statement as mumbo-jumbo, but more than two decades of studying business success and failure has taught...

  • Increasing the value of your glass business
    June 3, 2009
    Value creation begins with alignment of the stakeholders surrounding your company.

  • Closer look: Card check or not
    Proposed legislation of the Employee Free Choice Act faces stiff opposition among glass and glazing shop owners
    June 1, 2009
    The news media has been abuzz with the Employee Free Choice Act, aka, the card check bill, the last few months. As of mid-April, the legislation--that would make it easier for unions to organize workers--lacks the 60 votes needed to clear the Senate. Business groups and unions are at odds regarding the bill.In an article in The Washington Post, the president of AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney, said...

  • Valuing your glass business
    April 16, 2009
    In spite of the turbulent economic environment, shareholders and operators of glass retailers and distributors, glazing contractors, and auto glass replacement and repair shops need to think about value-creating strategies to weather the business cycle and grow. Let’s start with how to think about valuation, and then we will explore the levers to pull to create more.The first step in...

  • Showers Online software
    April 2, 2009
    Showers Online, CRL’s exclusive frameless shower glass size program, provides glass professionals with an efficient method for calculating final glass sizes for specific projects. Users can design almost any custom enclosure, produce more quotes, train more employees to handle shower customers, make professional presentations, and get accurate glass sizes immediately.

  • Exclusive interview with Russell J. Ebeid
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    April 1, 2009
    Q&A with the president of Glass Group, Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich.  Ebeid Read related articles:Ebeid: Prepare for a new glass industryEbeid: Renaissance of a new, green glass ageState of solar glass in GermanyInvesting in solar: Potential and risks for U.S. glass industryHow are you keeping employees' spirits up amidst these tough economic conditions and the...
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