April 8, 2020 Local businesses are responding to the urgent needs of health care workers fighting COVID-19 on the front lines. For weeks, we’ve seen large cities across the nation send out distress signals for more personal protective equipment (PPE). To supplement UT Southwestern’s supply, Tim Proctor, son of the late Vernon Proctor who founded […]
Warren Buffett’s Geico plans to offer insurance-policy credits to its auto customers as driving declines because of the widespread coronavirus-related shutdowns. Geico, owned by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., will provide a 15% credit to its auto and motorcycle customers when their policies come up for renewal between April 8 and Oct. 7, the insurer said […]
April 8, 2020 The defense industry is one of few manufacturing sectors in North Texas not reeling from the impact of COVID-19. One of the area’s largest employers, Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), hired 166 people in Dallas-Fort Worth during the past two weeks and is advertising for roughly 700 more open positions in the […]
April 8, 2020 Sadly, it seems inevitable that for every catastrophe this country faces, there are low-lifes that crawl out of the woodwork to try to take advantage. This pandemic is no exception. But it’s particularly pernicious now when the whole country is in a collective fight for our health and so many of us […]
April 7, 2020 When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was first elected in 2014, he established a Business Advisory Council comprised of business leaders from a broad range of businesses around the state to provide him with input on a variety of issues. Today, the Lt. Governor announced that he has established a Task Force from […]
April 7, 2020 Albertsons and the nation’s largest food employees union are working together to try to get grocery workers classified as first responders during the coronavirus pandemic. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and the grocery chain, one of the nation’s largest, said Tuesday that the designation would assure that supermarket workers […]
The Dallas-Fort Worth housing market is one of the least vulnerable in the nation to a housing market collapse triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report. Major Texas markets overall fare well in the report by ATTOM Data Solutions. Dallas County ranks 477th out of 483 counties ranked, with the higher number […]
March 25, 2020 Chances are COVID-19 has thrown your sales and marketing strategy for a loop. You’ve canceled your events. Your in-person sales meetings have transitioned to phone calls. You may have even postponed a product launch or paused a marketing campaign. Now what? While it’s everyone’s job to keep each other safe during this […]
March 20, 2020 You have always done well to manage your team’s workload, resolve challenges and maintain morale. That is, when you were in the office. But now you’re not. Nor are your team members. These are uncharted waters for everyone and that may be causing as much angst as disruption to productivity. Here are […]
April 7, 2020 During Dallas’s unprecedented shelter-in-place times, some restaurants are getting creative by flipping into mini marts as an added revenue stream during the coronavirus pandemic. Along with takeout and delivery menus during the dine-in ban, newly added market essentials and grocery kits are designed to help customers make their own meals at home. […]