NEW YORK, September 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthemis Group SA is pleased to announce the creation of Anthemis (Americas) Corporation. Based in New York and led by Managing Director Sam Johnson, Anthemis (Americas) will play a key role in supporting the Group's continued growth and ambition to re-invent financial services. Founded in 2010, Anthemis is a fast-growing, diversified financial services firm with ...

BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank increased small business lending by $196 million since last year, nearly quadrupling its 2011 pledge to boost loans by $50 million. At a White House Small Business Lender Forum held in Cleveland, Ohio last September, M&T Bank Chairman and CEO Robert G. Wilmers vowed to Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) ...

The second in a series of PR Newswire articles helps small businesses pinpoint their social media objectives NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fundamental to any successful social media program is aligning the strategy to a specific business goal and then defining and prioritizing the marketing tactics to support it. This is especially important to small business owners who are braving the complex wo ...

15% Of Stay-at-Home Moms Resent Their Partners For Being The Ones Who Continue To Work Today's Moms Believe The Economy Has Negatively Affected Their Parenting: 69% Of Working Moms Feel Pressure To Work, While 2/3 Of Stay-at-home Moms Who Plan To Return To Work Fear The Slow Economy Will Prevent Them From Doing So Majority Believe Not Working Out Of Home To Care For Children Is A Luxury NEW YORK, Sept. 12, ...

August 2012 SB Authority's Survey Results: 64% of Business Owners Do Not See A Concern With Sharing Their Information NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Newtek Business Services, NASDAQ: NEWT, The Small Business Authority , with a portfolio of over 100,000 business accounts, announced today the findings of its SB Authority Market Sentiment Survey, a monthly window into the concerns of independent busin ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon's small business team will present another free webinar on Wednesday (Aug. 8) at 2 p.m. ET, featuring Gary Kaber, product specialist at Intuit, a leading provider of business and financial management software for small businesses. In this one-hour live webinar, Kaber will offer tips on how to make a business website more effective for the business and its custo ...

Ajax Union, an Internet marketing agency located in Brooklyn, N.Y., will be hosting the latest networking mixer in its Meetup Series on Tuesday, August 7th NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "This is the fourth installment in our Meetup Series, and we're really excited for it. Our networking events have been steadily increasing in popularity, with attendance at the most recent function exceeding 100 peo ...

Leader in Local Print and Digital Coupons Continues Expansion from Coast-to-Coast LARGO, Fla., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Valpak, a leader in local print and digital coupons, announced today the signing of seven new franchise agreements for territories including North Brooklyn, N.Y.; Salem, Ore.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Memphis, Tenn.; Parsippany, N.J.; Jacksonville, Fla. and East Toronto, Ontario. Both Nort ...

Small Business Tool Instantly Converts Any Website to a Feature-Rich HTML5 Mobile Site Optimized to Any Mobile Device, OS and Browser NEW YORK, July 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile technology startup bMobilized (http://bMobilized.com) today introduced the industry's most advanced do-it-yourself tool that instantly converts any website into a full-featured HTML5-enabled mobile site, optimized to any mobile de ...

Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) is an $6.8 billion company that sells cosmetics, perfume, jewelery, toys, and more in a person to person marketing style. Avon was started in 1886 in New York, New York by 28-year-old David McConnell.  McConnell was originally a door to door book salesmen that used free perfumes samples to entice women to buy his books.  Over time, the perfume became more popular than the boo ...