Posted by Duane On January - 13 - 2005ADD COMMENTS
Website: www.salescircular.com What is it about?: This is a very good site to use if you are in the market of making a purchase from the following stores: Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Kmart, Office Depot, Office Max, Radio Shack, Sears, Staples, Target, WalMart and select local retailers. Mostly electronics and appliances. In short, this site shows you the sale prices of all of the above mentioned stores in your ...More
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African-American Chamber Survey: 40 Percent of Black Businesses Have Difficulty Finding Trained Staff; 81.8 Percent of Black Firm Employees are African-American PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent survey of its member- businesses, the Philadelphia-area African-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) found that 40 percent are experiencing difficulty in finding appropriately trained employees to work in their companies and that targeted training programs would allow them to hire more people, with ...More
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Posted by Duane On January - 13 - 2005ADD COMMENTS
The Black community within the last few weeks has been rocked with the news that more successful black-owned businesses have been bought out or sold (however you want to see it) to White owned corporate giants: Essence magazine to Time Warner, Africana.com to be merged with AOL Black Voices (Africana.com had already been purchased by Time Warner [AOL's parent company] some time ago). Both of these businesses have enjoyed ...More
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"The United Nations has launched a series of 20 animated TV ads to stop the spread of AIDS, featuring cartoon condoms named Shaft, Stretch and Dick Available in 41 languages, the U.N. calls The Three Amigos ad campaign the "start of the world's largest integrated behavior modification program." (emphasis mine) "The spaceship spot has the Amigos as astronauts on a rumbling launchpad inside a condom-shaped craft as it builds power to liftoff ...More
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The announcement this week that the corporate parent of Essence Magazine was selling the company to magazine behemoth Time Inc. was the latest example of Black media companies being purchased by non-Black firms. A little more than five years after BET was sold to Viacom for $3.3 billion, the founder of Essence Communications, Ed Lewis, decided that in order for the magazine to grow and prosper, it needed to be with ...More
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