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Banks pledge $20 billion hike in lending to small business (access required)

Regions Bank, Wells Fargo and 11 other large banks have committed to increase lending for small businesses by a combined $20 billion over the next three years. The banks made the announcement at a press conference joined by Vice President Joe Biden and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills John Asbury, head of Business Services [...] [...]

Tornado victims often uninsured (access required)

The regions that most need insurance after tornadoes are often the exact places that don't have much of it. [...]

Anderson runs Can’t Be Beat Fence company like her family (access required)

Anderson named SBA’s Prime Contractor of the Year People who know Meredith Smith Anderson are probably not surprised at her selection as the Small Business Administration’s Prime Contractor of the Year for Region IV. As the managing member of Can’t Be Beat Fence and Construction, Anderson has led the limited liability company to stability and [...] [...]

IMS Engineers has grown from three to 189 employees since being launched in 1996 (access required)

Firm’s CEO named SBA’s Small Business Person of the Year It is no wonder that John D. Calhoun, Ph.D., CEO of Integrated Management Services (IMS) Engineers in Jackson, was recently selected as Mississippi Small Business Person of the Year by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Under Calhoun’s leadership, IMS Engineers in Jackson has grown from [...] [...]

Hard work makes a difference (access required)

by Nash Nunnery Published: December 12,2010

Tags: Gary Reed, Judi Adcock, Small Business Administration

Adcock is retiring this month after nearly 42 years at the SBA When Judi Adcock first arrived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1968, she thought she’d found nirvana. “My then-husband was in the Air Force and he got transferred to Biloxi, a place I’d never heard of,” she said.  “We drove over to Bay [...] [...]

There’s a new bank in town (access required)

by Wally Northway Published: July 11,2010

Tags: loans, Sam's Club, SBA, small business, Small Business Administration, Wal-Mart

  Sam’s Club offering small business loans to many that banks will not   A small business owner walks into a Sam’s Club, picks up a year’s worth of pens and pencils, a truckload of printer ribbons and a few gallons of ketchup for the break room. But, she could use a little working capital, too. So, [...] [...]

SBA presents ARC Loan proceeds

by MBJ Staff Published: April 11,2010

Tags: ARC Loan, Ballyhoo Gifts, Douglas Diamonds, Janita Stewart, Small Business Administration

On March 30, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) district director Janita Stewart presented ARC Loan proceeds to two Simpson County small business owners. The businesses are Ballyhoo Gifts and Douglas Diamonds, and each received loans of $35,000. [...]

Q&A: Janita R. Stewart, SBA Mississippi District Director (access required)

by Nash Nunnery Published: February 21,2010

Tags: Janita R. Stewart, Q&A, SBA, Small Business Administration

The role of the SBA Helping small business when it needs it most Janita Stewart is Mississippi district director for the Small Business Administration in Jackson.  She recently sat down with the Mississippi Business Journal’s Nash Nunnery to discuss the SBA and other topics relating to small business in our state. Q – What exactly [...] [...]

SBA loan volume skyrockets

by Wally Northway Published: January 27,2010

Tags: financing, loans, Small Business Administration, small businesses, start-up companies

JACKSON — The U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Mississippi District Office continues to turn out big loan approval numbers in fiscal year 2010. “We started this fiscal year rolling out loans in the same manner we ended fiscal year 2009,” said Janita R. Stewart, SBA Mississippi district director. “The volume of loans approved, both in [...] [...]

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