business registry. the applications were reviewed by me for completion and submitted to the planning department staff on february 15 for their review. the historic preservation commission heard the applications on march 15 and made positive recommendations to the commission. for each applicant your commission packet contains a staff report, draft resolution, the application, a case report from the planning department staff and a resolution from the historic preservation commission. there are copies on the table for the public. (paused)to the 1915 pan nana exhibit and during the exhibit on treasure island it offered sightseeing tours of the newly constructed bay bridges. launching the company's signature golden gate day cruise that is still popular today. red and white fleet tours were in full swing by the 40's and operated by his grandson who purchased the business from the crowley maritime corporation in 1997. item 3 b is ruby sailing. the business began in 1981 offers private and public sailing cruise

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look what businesses are out there. don't try to copy someone's business. just talk to people and learn what drives someone to grow a business and also look at big corporate government and use that opportunity for relationships. it is a great opportunity also to touch base to a lot of our small business colleagues that are day in and day out granting the work and i look forward to a couple of things. the technical assistance aspect of it and taking advantage of those panels. the chamber does a great job at inviting folks that understand very well a particular topic in our company we have been able to sign up for a event and we benefit from a couple of businesses. we got our first contract almost four years ago out of the match making event where we had taunt to meet federal agency and we have also met other companies like that. >> ten years ago hispanic business ownership was surging in the region doubling the number of all businesses at the time. what does the landscape look like today? >> it just keeps going. the trend keeps moving in that direction. we h

for consideration by the small business commission one for each the legacy business registry applicant in support of businesses a motion in favor of resolution in the resolutions pay attention to the core physical features that define the business once approved by the san francisco small business commission the businesses must maintain the features of tradition in order to remain on the legacy business registry accion latina and/or seismic engagement as a way for latino communities and the boudin bakery for the auto active repair and maintenance for retro fit vintage retail sales that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> this is great i'm not familiar with all the companies but certainly the boudin bakery a few iconic representatives this is awesome a so commission comments and questions. >> i have a question about the retro fit vintage more than two years; correct? >> that's correct. >> 2021. >> we checked with the city attorney's office the registration over 20 years could be 20 years. >> they fulfilled the dress code requirements. >> very

welcome to "your business," the show dedicated to helping your growing business.resident trump says helping and supporting women owned small businesses is a priority for his administration. the president, along with the vice president, mike pence, and first daughter, ivanka trump, convened around the white house with a group of women business owner who is spoke of successes and challenges they face. the president pledged to help them overcome some of those barriers. today, we have two of the women that participated. shirley perry owner of hydrotech and jessica johnson cope owner of johnson security bureau. with we told you about jessica's journey taking over the family's business a few years ago. great to see both of you. >> hi, j.j., how are you doing? >> good morning, thank you. >> thank you for giving us insight on that. let me start with you on the sight, jessica. what was the tone of the meeting? >> the tone was exciting. the fact that the administration finds that women business owners are a priority and wanted to hear our challenges and talk about our succe

removal of a legacy business from the lexi business registry. number two, proposed new rules for the rent stabilization grants in number three, insisting leases that are least 10 years regarding rent stabilization grants. removal of a legacy business from the ledges legacy business reggie is a work in progress but this is what we've developed as of this month. number one requester may be a member of the public, the board of supervisors, the mayor, the nominator, small business commission, historical preservation commission-sorry, historic preservation commission with a legacy business program staff. number two, criteria for consideration of renewal from the registry. the business no longer has a presence in san francisco. the business longer contribute to the neighborhood's history and or identity of a particular neighborhood or community. number three, the business a longer is maintaining the physical features or traditions that define the business including craft culinary or art forms. procedures for requester. requester has a concern regardin

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reporter: it's more business than obamacare. mr. cohn: it's business. it's to stimulate business investment. we are trying to stimulate business investment. reporter: first of all, does it pay for itself? is this plan revenue-neutral? secondly, what in here is non-negotiable? when it this goes over to congress, congress comes back with a 20% corporate tax rate or something added in, will the president refuse to sign that? mr. mnuchin: let me first say, again, the core principles of this, we've been meeting with the house and senate and they agree 100%. the core businesses make business rates competitive, bring back trillions of dollars to create jobs, simplify personal taxes, create a middle income tax cuts. those core principles are non-negotiable. and that's something that we all feel strongly about. as it relates to will it pay for itself, again, i think as we've said, we're working on lots of details as to this. we have over 100 people in the treasury that have been working on tax and scoring different lots of different scenarios. this will pay for

so it's a small business... >> it's small. >> but a decent margin business. >> comfortable, but--exactly>> yeah. >> do you make the ice cream here on the premises? >> no, we don't actually make anything here. we use co-packers, a few around the tri-state area, and we travel to the co-packers when we need to manufacture, make sure they're to our quality control. >> what does that cost to go there? >> a lot. >> i'll bet you they are anywhere between 20% and 30%, yeah. >> co-packers are third-party vendors who manufacture and produce product for small companies. mr. green tea gives up about 20% margin by using co-packers because they don't produce the product themselves. 20% margin on $2 1/2 million of revenue means they're giving up about $1/2 million a year in potential profit by not making the product themselves. >> we have grown 20% every single year for the last five or six years, and the only reason we're not growing more, especially this year, is we physically can't get enough ice cream. there's logistics in the manufacturing and getting the product here. >> and for that matter, sinc

i learn businesses through this and now i can share business with my community. >>[gavel] >> good afternoon i will call to order the tjpa board of directors special meeting for march 24. >> thank you i will call roll call and over the writer-director kim and sartipi so they will not be present today. with that harper here, reiskin here, gee, here nuru

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traditions associate witched the success of the business. the first application before you today is for the elbo room, a well loved neighborhood bar in the mission district with significant ties to the lgbtq community. the elbo room goes back to the founding of amelia's, one of the lesbian bars in the united states, founded in 1998 by ricky striker, it was a popular place for the lesbian community to gather and socialize and participate in neighborhood activity and is events. amelia's served and became a place frequented by the surrounding lesbian owned and oriented businesses such as the old wives' tale, aught thent to*e and the women's bruited. in 1991, ricky partnered with bar mag dennis and renamed the bar the elbo room, it has continued many of the traditions that began with or at amelia's and continues the play a significant role as a gathering place for mission district visitors, rez dens as well as the lgbt community, the next application is for long boat july r*i rkt a chinatown business offering a wide variety of custom made and im

business.any entrepreneurs are embracing the internet to boost sales but to say that everyone is doing it would be wrong. a virginia entrepreneur refuses to set up shop online because she believes that would be doing her business and clients a disservice. this yarn store owner prefers to interact with her customers on the phone, by e-mail or face to face any day of the week instead of trying to manage her sales through a website. >> i really don't want anything to do with selling online. i don't want to process web orders, it's not the nature of what i set out to do. >> danielle already knows what other business owners say about her. >> they absolutely think i'm crazy. >> the creator e eor is used to head shaking and puzzled looks from her peers. >> it's suggested almost daily from anyone in the business world. why don't you sell online? she says it frankly doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, she's never going to sell on fiber space.com. >> it was something that i examined and studied and t

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we are taking a look at the big business of choppers. welcome to world business report. i'm aaron heslehurst. some of the world's most powerful people from business and politics are meeting in berlin today. they also happen to all be women. it is part of an initiative called w20, set up by 20 of the world's leading nations. so who is going, and what is it all about? attending the summit will be christine lagarde, the head of the imf, angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, and ivanka trump, daughter and special assistant to the president of the united states. the group wants to highlight the issue of women's economic participation and empowerment, while reducing the gender employment gap by 25% by 2025, and the world economic forum says that economic inequalities between the sexes could take 170 years to close. the gap in economic opportunity between men and women, according to wef, is now larger than at any point since 2008. ann francke is the ceo of chartered management institute. great to have you in the studio, especially at this horrible time! cani especially at t

lemonis: when you lose the founder of the business, it definitely hurts the business. there's other people you could hire, but you can't hire a new brother. [ drums playing ] mike: man, you got it! lemonis: what was interesting to me is the range of ages that were in that booth, excited to see and play sjc. it was impressive. if they could offer up more affordable kits, this is maybe one of the few businesses that i think has more potential than even the owner thinks. -lemonis: that was pretty good. -mike: [ laughs ] lemonis: after seeing things at n.a.m.m., i'm heading to southbridge to really see what's going on behind the scenes of this company. -good to see you. -mike: good to see you. this is our warehouse. this is kind of the start of the process. all of our shelves are there. a lot of custom stuff. lemonis: how you doing, buddy? chris: hey, marcus. lemonis: so, the raw materials come in here. who schedules the workflow that happens? chris: i schedule every order that comes through. lemonis: so who's in charge of sales? -mike: me. -lemonis: who generates the actu

i don't think there anybody any outreach to any business group or business to the business communitybout this like why didn't the planning department come out to the people this is going to affect and just ask about it? it's very disconcerting we just heard about it a couple of weeks ago indirectly and now it comes up here. it's very complicated, hard to follow. what i could see it's mostly clean up but i think there are recalculations of the number of parking spaces for new buildings out there and reduces the number of parking spaces so the way i understand it if there's a parking lot in order in the mix now you have to use that as square footage to require other parking, but what it's going to be -- you don't use that square footage. i think that means a net loss of parking spaces in the project. i don't know about some of the other details but it is disconcerting that here's a piece of legislation going through three years and affecting businesses and their properties and nobody ever came and talked to the business and said "what do you think ?" . thank you. >> thank you. any othe

and i fix failing businesses. this business last year did $50 million of business.tunately, we didn't make any money. you guys sell a lot, but there's one thing that you don't do very well. what is that? >> collect. >> collect money. so last night at dinner, i made a deal with alan and howard. and i'm putting in a million dollars. but you know what they forgot to do last night? they forgot to ask me for my money. it's a theme, but it's not funny. because your paychecks and the rent, all get paid when we collect the money, not when the stuff leaves on the truck. there's the money. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> from this point forward, i'm in charge. the first thing we're gonna do is fix the accounts receivable process, so that i know for sure what meats coming in and what meat's going out. i wanna know how much we're selling, how much we're collecting, and who owes what. we're gonna start by getting on the phone, and calling these customers that owe us money. we need to be paid. and from now on, when we deliver meat, we need to get paid on time. we are no

business registry. the applications were reviewed by me for completion and submitted to the planning department staff on february 15 for their review. the historic preservation commission heard the applications on march 15 and made positive recommendations to the commission. for each applicant your commission packet contains a staff report, draft resolution, the application, a case report from the planning department staff and a resolution from the historic preservation commission. there are copies on the table for the public. (paused)to the 1915 pan nana exhibit and during the exhibit on treasure island it offered sightseeing tours of the newly constructed bay bridges. launching the company's signature golden gate day cruise that is still popular today. red and white fleet tours were in full swing by the 40's and operated by his grandson who purchased the business from the crowley maritime corporation in 1997. item 3 b is ruby sailing. the business began in 1981 offers private and public sailing cruise

item 11. >> item 11 new business. allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. discussion item. >> any new items at the moment? and do we have any public comment on item 11? seeing none. public comment is now closed. item number 12 adjournment. >> sfgtv could you please show our slide in closing? >> okay. the office of small business is your one stop shop for small business issues and items and once again our advice is free so please come see us at the office of small business. >> a motion to adjourn. >> i'm sorry. item number 12 adjournment action item. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> meeting adjourned. >> thank you. >> meeting is adjourned -- what time is it? 7:58 p.m.fran historic preservation commission for wednesday prilt 5, 2017. i would labeling to remind members that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any time, please silence your mobile devices, and when speaking before the commission, if you care to do, state y

and private businesses. it's especially important to those businesses that are trying to compete with big private enterprises that have a public stock to offer as incentive. and structuring competitive compensation and private businesses is very challenging. further, the employee of the stock ownership is a huge source of pride, allowing individuals to participate in the growth and prosperity that their hard work and sweat equity have helped build. so rule 701, the s.e.c. commission, allows private companies to offer up to $5 million in their own securities without additional regulatory bureaucracy. my friend from illinois, mr. hultgren and mr. delaney have simply made a small change, and that is to raise that commiss rat with inflation, to $10 million, to reflect the world we live in today. this is not rocket science. this is something we need to do for building our economy. as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the signing of the jobs act by president obama and the successes this legislation has yielded

dedicated to the low margin business, the wine walk-in retail business. know that if i can add tables and chairs, my margins will go up immediately. but as an owner, you have to be there to connect the dots. the problem that exists today here, there's no leader, and the owners are absent. and because of that, the business loses money, and because of that, the business is upside down. so what do you do? >> this is why we called you. >> when's the last time you guys had a staff meeting? >> we don't have them. >> i been here three years. there's been one. >> no staff meetings. how do you know what's going on? >> you don't. when the [bleep] hits the fan, that's when we learn about it. >> this--it's like--this is like the definition of insanity. how many total employees here? >> 17 employees. >> if the business does go out, that's 17 people that are on the street, and you guys lose-- >> a lot of money. >> i think bill, he doesn't even sleep at night. >> who's bill? >> bill gary's my partner. he's the one who handles all the financials and does all the book wor

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james: well, they had a business that needed fixing, and i had some expertise in that business.ually it was a very struggling business at the time. it was the old wealth management business. john mack called me when he got recruited back to morgan stanley in 2005, i think, and asked me to be part of the team, which i thought was a very exciting challenge, so i did that. david: so when you came over to run the wealth management business, did you ever think you would be the ceo of morgan stanley? james: i did not. i told john actually when he was interviewing me for the job, i said, we can fix this business. i am pretty confident about that. i knew a lot of people in the market. i felt immodestly that i understood what the issues were and i felt we could fix it. i said, i can only fix it to a certain level and then you will have an important decision to make him and that is probably two years for now. that decision is do you double the business because this is a business that has scale economics and you need to double it, or sell it to somebody else who will double theirs? there w

, with minority-owned businesses, with lgbtq businesses, with veteran-owned businesses. and so, vta, under the leadership of that board, did a great job of putting together a program to certify businesses and help small businesses be ready to apply for these big contracts. damian: so, those businesses are there, right? they're ready to do business, but are they just being overlooked, do you know? or why is it that not many are being contracted to these types of jobs, if they aren't? alberto lara: well, unfortunately that is the case, that smaller businesses tend to be overlooked because they don't have the big department for marketing, the big capacity. so, that's exactly what our program is targeting is helping them get a piece of that pie and partner with prime contractors that are working on exciting projects, such as the bart extension project into santa clara county. that project alone, we've awarded $141 million to small businesses and disadvantaged businesses as well. so, it's pretty exciting. and now, as supervisor chavez just mentioned, with the expansion of the

and separate business for wells fargo.hey hope they would usher in a new era of business-friendly policies and deregulation. >> those are all big positives, because we know small business is the main source of job creation. the question going forward, is sustainability. >> reporter: but main street advocates and analysts pointed out said it hasn't translated into spending and hiring. this month could signal a change. >> as long as they're not fearing an administration that's bashing business and talking about new regulations, taxes they're going to dream up, as long as they do without that, that's a positive. >> reporter: now it's time to see if small businesses invest in expanding or this is a sugar rush. >>> the largest part of the u.s. economy grew at a slower pace in march. it fell from the previous month as some managers expressed concern about the impact of policy. now washington related to immigration, trade and health care. others were concerned about worker shortages, service sector accounts for about 80% of the e

comcast business. built for business. lemonis: there's nothing unique about this.s like a stock item. steve designed some perfectly simple, standard furniture for simple greek, but that's the problem. it was just plain. sam didn't like it. he's the one making the decision. at this point, i just hope that ana does better, because if she doesn't, sam has the right to go out and find an alternative supplier. and pacific and grafton, along with me, can kiss that revenue goodbye. i'm not going to make sam do business with one of my companies just because i own it. it's got to be good enough to win the business. ana: so this is my interpretation of simple greek. i kind of started the process with what reminds me of greece or greek restaurant. so i just went through so many inspiration images that kind of inspired me to design the furniture. and i really call these "mood boards." i feel like this puts you in the mood like, when you walk into a space, what's the mood? the table, what i designed was in a powder coated metal, and again, bringing in those colors, the blue, th

that business mantle is called the -- model is called the platform business model.models have a winner take all dynamic, which means there are only one or two companies that dominate in industries market share, so they are highly fragmented. morearketplace is valued than the veneer distribution model, so they could be in a position to drastically increase market share if they were to look at revising their business model structure and embracing that marketplace model, letting third-party sellers sell alongside them on their website. how quicklyt's see that disruption comes are these companies respond. wonderful to have you with us. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." on monday, we speak with the latest founder about his adventure in mobile gaming. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." begin with the chinese-american summit in florida. president xi jinping arrived today for a meeting with president trump. it is the first bilateral meeting between the two leaders and an important step in impro

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while we were on the campaign we met with thousands of business leaders, small businesses, big businesses. let me tell you, the one thing we heard more than anything else is people want tax reform. people want economic growth and people want less regulations to put people back to work and make american jobs. bob: white house press secretary sean spicer said the administration will be driving the train on tax reform. is that true, is the administration going to be the driving force with this plan that you invail this afternoon? secretary mnuchin: it's clear the administration is going to provide leadership but this is going to be an effort working very closely with the house and senate and incorporating, but i think it was very important to the president that we put out the core principles. this is part of his big impact for the first 100 days. we've been working on this for a long time, and as i said, the core principles, we have fundamental agreement on what we're trying to do and the details of tax reform are still to be worked out but we're confident that we can work with the house and

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small and medium-sized businesses will be eligible for the business rate as well.s gary said, we have had very productive meetings with the house and senate, working weekly to get this done. we will continue to do that. we are determined to move this as a fast as we can and get this done this year. i would also just comment that we will hold listening sessions. one thing this president has done very well is listen. we've had hundreds of business leaders here from all different types of areas, manufacturers, retail, airlines, community banks, big banks. we are listening, and we have been taking feedback. finally, i would just add, the president's objective is creating economic growth, and as we said before, we believe we can get back to 3% or higher gdp that is sustainable in this country. the overall economic plan consists of massive tax cuts and tax reform, regulatory relief, and renegotiating trade deals. and with that, we will unlock the economic growth that has been held back for too long in this country. and with that, we would both be happy to take if you que

to a baseball-bat business.scott's kids are here, he needs to let them take the business to the next level, as well. i want to understand where the opportunity is. jackie: we just had an appointment with penn state, and they were extremely helpful. they gave us an entire list of needs. lemonis: 'cause that's the kind of research i want to know. jackie: lighters. they wanted coasters. we were thinking of looking into a football-shaped cutting board. lemonis: cups, mugs. since you guys are really driving all these new ideas, i want to see 20 ideas of things other than bats. scott: he wants to take the focus off the mini bat, and i don't agree. i've been doing this for 25 years. lemonis: for you to have this huge delusion that you're gonna beat louisville slugger in the long run, it's just dangerous. holy...scott. my money's not safe. lemonis: the fact that they were smart enough to come up with technology that differentiated themselves is one thing, but this technology can be used on other things in addition to ba

hollingsworth: i went to business school. i always knew i wanted to be in business. back in 2004-2005 -- 2004, 2005 and 2016, it was all the rage to go overseas. all these manufacturers were fleeing the united states and manufacturing seemed dead in the country. i never believed that. always felt that this country has the most innovative, most productive workers in the world. the products that we'd come up with, the refined processes that we were able to develop, really set us apart. and so i started investing these old manufacture fag silts and got lucky on a few -- manufacturing facilities and got ucky on a few. certainly the energy reyou are -- resurgence in america. the realization that supply chains around the globe are fragile and other things have brought more companies back onshore. i was excited to be a part of that movement. reporter: why did you decide to run for congress? mr. hollingsworth: i think my feeling was, we should be doing better than this. we should have more opportunities for americans and hoosiers to get great job, -- great jobs, to to see th

damion: 99% of our business comes from these fairs. lemonis: and their relationship is at a breaking point. damion: you're making it out that you just sat back... simon: i'm not making it out at all. he asked me, so i told him. damion: ...drinking a whiskey, smoking a cigar. lemonis: if i can't help them get their house in order, this company will fall to pieces. damion: it's so hard for me because how hard i've worked to get here. ♪ lemonis: my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. we're not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. we're gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. it's not always pretty. everything's gonna change -- everything. but i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. this... let's go to work. ...is "the profit." ♪ based in hilmar, california, kensington garden rooms manufactures handcrafted, custom gazebos fully fitted for outdoor entertaining. owners damion merry and simon johnston learned their craft in england then brought i

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the real estate business in new york is an amazing business. it is a great business.ny time you have a great business, you always have competition. do you have to be a killer in business? i think you have to be smart in business. i don't think you have to be a killer, i think you have to be smart. that many have to have eyes in the back of your head, always looking to is going to get you, put a fast one you? one of the things i say in the book, very strongly, is you have to be paranoid. and the book is selling so well, well, and so people believe this. but there is a certain advantage to having a certain degree of paranoia. you can be a little bit careful. you watch what is happening behind your back. and i think that is probably very true in business. if you are paranoid, how much enjoyment is in that? how much can you actually sit back and say look what i've done, this is great? i think that there is great enjoyment. i think that paranoia cannot be carried to a large shattering crisis point. people are out there and they are looking and looking to three off your thr

laughter —— welcome to business live. laughter -- welcome to business live.hink it is the start of more? not much pointjust having one. yes, a silly question. but you have a lot of shoes over there. we have one, there will be more fairly soon. 0bviously there will be more fairly soon. obviously we have to learn how to do it, we have one or two of our people over there. a long way to go. i‘m not getting excited yet, but it is a very interesting new direction for us. very interesting new direction for us. can i ask you this? i know you we re us. can i ask you this? i know you were watching the interview with john as well from argos. their model was very similar... asking if this is the future, you know, click & collect, picking up in supermarkets, and you‘re opening up a lot of the timpsons in supermarkets around the uk. is that the future because it is with the footfall is? we are in pretty much every high street you wa nt to pretty much every high street you want to be end, and we are opening lots of shops together with supermarkets, all the big format, parti

travel for business purposes, now that equipment issue certainly hit business travelers very hard. but the survey also said that 37% of managers anticipate a drop in business travel, and 47% of europeans said they expect a reduction. >> yes. so that's something that especially the business travel industry is really, really concerned about right now. they have europeans saying, we're going to plan our meetings somewhere else, in other countries. so that's a big concern for them. >> thank you, hannah. hannah sampson with scift. that's "nightly business report" tonight, i'm sue herera, thanks for joining us. >> i'm tyler mathisen. have a great evening. we'll see you tomorrow, friday.

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sally is here with world business report.he boss of the uk's biggest business lobby group, the cbi comic gives us her reaction to the snap election called for by the british prime minister. —— the cbi, gives. and we talk to facebook about policing violent material on the social media website following the suicide of murder suspect steve stephens. hello and a warm welcome to you. welcome to world business report. i'm sally bundock. also in the programme we'll have all the market numbers for you as the global slide in shares continues in asia and the pound sterling holds its gains. we were sure those numbers at the end of the programme. but first, here we go again. nine months after becoming prime minister, theresa may is ready dice and betting on a strong victory in a snap election on june the act. today, mps are expected to vote in favour of the proposal, which theresa may says will bring greater certainty as britain prepares to leave the european union. markets reacted sweetly to the news. on tuesday, the pound was on a roll