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  • Beyond auto glass
    Simple guidelines for diversifying business
    March 1, 2007
    In today’s competitive auto glass market, more shop owners are looking to add new products or services to re-invigorate company profits. Diversification is happening across the board, at small single-site businesses on up to full-scale multisite enterprises. Business owners are looking to increase sales and profitability, and leverage their existing know-how, resources and capacity for...

  • Internet marketing
    Basic strategies to attract online shoppers
    March 1, 2007
    Seventy percent of U.S. households use the Internet to shop locally for products and services, according to a 2005 study by The Kelsey Group, a Princeton, N.J., market-consulting firm that focuses on Yellow Pages, electronic directories, small-business advertising and search-engine marketing. This puts the Internet on par with newspapers and print Yellow Pages as an information resource for...

  • Heath education saves lives and money
    February 27, 2007
    Part four of four in the e-glass HR seriesStop smoking, lose weight and watch your cholesterol. This has become the mantra for many glass company executives who are taking a proactive approach to health care by encouraging healthy lifestyles among employees...

  • The price of health care
    February 20, 2007
    Glass companies struggle to keep up with rising costs Part three of four in the e-glass HR series Health care costs have ballooned during the past decade, increasing more than 30 percent in the last three years alone. Glass companies and their employees are both feeling the effects...

  • Distant retirement
    February 13, 2007
    Companies struggle to get young workers into retirement plans Part two of three in the e-glass HR series Young workers in the glass industry aren’t opting in to private retirement plans, even with the solvency of Social Security and pensions in question, company executives report...

  • Bonus of bonuses
    February 6, 2007
    Glass companies rely on incentive programs to motivate employees Part one of three in the e-glass HR series Whether it's annual bonuses or performance-based pay raises, glass company executives say financial incentives improve employee attendance, increase motivation and advance overall job performance...

  • A look into the economic crystal ball
    January 1, 2007
    Predicting the economic future can be a guessing game at times, depending on the economists you listen to. In my quest for interviews with the country’s top financial leaders, I narrowed my focus to billionaire Warren Buffet, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. It turns out Buffet was busy helping Bill Gates spend the money he...

  • Companies take steps to avoid hiring illegal immigrant workers
    December 12, 2006
    Read part one, part two and part three of the e-glass Special Series on immigration.In the Nov. 28 edition of e-glass weekly, several company managers reported that their immigrant workforce has helped them get through the growing labor shortage in the glass industry. However, industry representatives warn companies need to take all appropriate steps to ensure they hire legal immigrant...

  • Brett Randall
    Managing director and executive vice president of sales and marketing, Traco
    December 1, 2006
     Education: 2001, executive master of business administration, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; 1987-91, studied applied history and industrial management at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.   Career: 2004-present, managing director and executive vice president of sales and marketing, Traco, Cranberry Township, Pa.; 2001-04, vice...

  • Options for bulletin board cases
    Stock hinged units, custom wall-mounts available
    December 1, 2006
    Los Angeles-based C.R. Laurence Co. introduced several designs for bulletin board cases for interior applications. “We have created a variety of stock bulletin board cases, and also offer custom bulletin boards that are fabricated to each customer’s specifications,” says Bob Carlson, product manager.CRL’s wall-mounted bulletin board cases ship fully assembled and ready for...
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