Posted in Uncategorized, tagged events, Legis. Jay Schneiderman, small business on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Suffolk County Legis. Jay Schneiderman announced today that the New York State Small Business Development Center will visit Suffolk County’s “One Stop Employment Center” in Hauppauge tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. launching free workshops for entrepreneurs. The NYSSBDC promises to provide a soup-to-nuts program on how to get started on that dream business rattling around [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty products, health, retail, small business on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s another Long Island company you may have not known about: Eastport-based Honeymark International.
Honeymark makes medicated creams and lotions using honey, and credits ancient Egyptians for noticing the healing qualities of our favorite sticky treat. The company says the secret to its healing creams is its use of Manuka honey, which is honey made from [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged automobiles, small business on January 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s like the mail, it never stops, but just keeps coming and coming and coming … Add to this week’s print story on our mania for all things automotive another way to express yourself with your ride.
Meet Autographicals, a Commack-based company which for about 20 bucks will send you a kit to let you [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged podcast, Real estate, small business, taxes on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s Friday, the usual day we deliver our weekly podcast, and this show, our 40th, is just wonderful.
In this edition of LI Bizcast, real estate ace David Winzelberg looks at the Garden City Hotel, the landmark inn that is on the block, and being eyed by top firms.
Separately, Winzelberg explains why the Federal Reserve thinks [...]
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A Long Island tattoo artist says that iconic sneaker maker Converse ripped off one of his designs, so he’s suing company.
Anthony Zambito, who runs Zam Visionary Tattoo in Centereach, claims Converse stole a unique Japanese design from him when a Converse intern stumbled across his Web site — that’s the sneaker company’s story (skewer [...]
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A Long Island baker thinks dietary restrictions shouldn’t keep people from their cravings for cookies.
Nutrition Creations, a Bay Shore company, said today it just released a line of gluten-free cookies for people that are sensitive to the compounds.
Gluten is essentially the protein part of wheat. The compound is responsible for the elasticity in dough — [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged podcast, small business on July 6, 2007 | No Comments »
This week’s edition of LI Bizcast, the official podcast of Long Island Business News, is live with look at this week’s features.
First, reporter Ambrose Clancy takes a look at Long Island’s sex industry, and how cheap, and often free, Internet pornography is taking a bite out of local sales.
Next, real estate reporter David Winzelberg reports [...]
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Tea, its not just for breakfast anymore.
Landscaper Rich Staudt, who owns Complex Landscape Care & Design in Westbury, brews a tea of bacteria, fungi and protozoa that he uses as lawn food.
The organic product costs more than standard chemical lawn food, but it does not harm the environment by polluting groundwater.
In fact, Staudt says the [...]
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It seems Starbucks is not welcome in the North Fork, at least that’s what we’re hearing.
Here’s a bit from the Associated Press story:
Residents of the North Fork of Long Island are apparently suffering from Frapuccino rage.
The Starbucks global chain of coffee shops has moved into Greenport, Southold and Mattituck. The towns have long resisted [...]
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Here’s another Long Island company you may have missed.
PebbleArt Inc., a Westbury firm, specializes in making drink coasters out of natural stone like slate and sandstone.
But today the company says it is stepping out of its rustic skin to expand into designs more akin to Far East art. The company is also carving coasters out [...]
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It’s nice to see a local company doing business across our pond even if it suggests Long Island takes its high prices wherever it goes.
Islandia-based Whitsons Culinary Group will serve lunches to hungry schoolchildren in Connecticut’s Norwalk school district.
However, students can look forward to a lunch price hike when Whitsons takes over.
From The Advocate story:
Chief [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, Delta Financial Corp., Eliot Spitzer, Internet, Michael White, recycling, small business, software, television, Tom Suozzi on April 26, 2007 | No Comments »
While we may try our best to teach them well, sometimes a child’s curiosity can lead them to places they shouldn’t go. The Internet, though wonderful, is full of these places. That’s why SearchHelp exists.
The Long Island company makes software that helps parents control which Web waves their kids surf, all with the goal of [...]
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Yes, spring is finally here, the leaves will come and fresh produce will sprout from our soil. So you better get out and buy those greens.
The Long Island Growers’ Market released its 2007 schedule. On different days, in different towns, Long Island farmers will sell a selection of their crops, cheeses, breads, jams, pickles, pies, [...]
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The U.S Small Business Administration launched a new Web site and, though I can’t figure out why the organization went with the narrow look when screen sizes are only getting wider, it’s full of useful, interactive goodies.
The site offers online courses for small business owners, an advice chatline, tools for setting up electronic payments to [...]
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A Southold automobile dealer has seen Chrysler falter before, but the auto maker always survived.
That doesn’t mean Dick Mullen, the owner of the North Fork Chrysler dealership, hasn’t been taken for a ride. And now, as Chrysler’s owner, DaimlerChrysler is looking to unload the longtime name in American automobiles, Mullen is preparing for another excursion [...]
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Three cheers for the businessman who fought tooth and nail to stop a thief, though, in this case, he’s lucky he wasn’t seriously hurt.
A West Hempstead gas station manager — Nic Koseoglu, an immigrant from Turkey — was dragged down the street by a deadbeat gas customer. The driver refused to pay for the fuel [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged inventions, offbeat, small business on March 9, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s a couch potato’s godsend.
Duke University graduate John W. Cornwell, an alumnus of Huntington High School, made headlines this week for his invention, a beer launching refrigerator.
Here’s how the inventor describes his frothy fridge.
From his Web site:
Have you ever gotten up off the couch to get a beer for the umpteenth time and thought, “What [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged imports, small business on March 7, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Add this to the list of company’s you didn’t know were on Long Island.
Official Irish Dirt, which is run by the Auld Sod Export Company, sells genuine soil from the Emerald Isle. Of course the company is based in Ireland, but the company’s American depot is located right here, at 1448 Speonk Riverhead Road in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, small business on March 1, 2007 | No Comments »
A Garden City company licensed its proclaimed healthy beverage to Trimspa, the maker of diet pills know worldwide for its sponsor relationship with deceased celebrity Anna Nicole Smith.
Lifestyle Beverages’ Trim Water is an alternative to the popular Vitamin Water, which is produced by Queens-based Glaceau. The company says Trim Water is better because the liquid [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged small business, venture capital on February 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Try not to snicker.
On Friday, entrepreneur William Hussey said he’ll give his Point Lookout company away to anyone willing to manufacture his product.
Hussey said he’s been trying to secure venture capital funding for his business, The Bottoms Up, since he unveiled the company’s prototype in October.
His invention? It’s an automatic toilet seat.
According to [...]
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