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The Real Benefits of Financing: What are My Options?

The Real Benefits of Financing: What are My Options?

By Angela Faringhy, Innovative Lease Services, Inc. Financing Versus Equity Financing Banks, Lenders, and Investors (oh my!) all exist because we fellow businesses need them. They sometimes can be the fine line between succeeding and closing the doors for good. Each of these entities, holders of large sums of money, ...
Adding a Financing Arm to Your B2B Business “aka” In-House Customer Payment Plans

Adding a Financing Arm to Your B2B Business “aka” In-House Customer Payment Plans

By Angela Faringhy, Innovative Lease Services, Inc With majority of business processes automated – payment plans are more readily available than ever before. This includes business goods, services, and consumer goods – almost everything under the sun can be financed. With that being said it is crucial for a business ...
Brokers See Themselves as ‘Bridge’ Between Growers, Wineries

Brokers See Themselves as ‘Bridge’ Between Growers, Wineries

By Jim Offner Wine and grape brokers insist that their role transcend that of simple intermediary between grower and winery. Some involved in the process go so far as to eschew the term “broker” in describing what they do to bring the parties together. “I don’t like the word broker; ...
Tariffs, Tariffs, and More Tariffs

Tariffs, Tariffs, and More Tariffs

By Dan Minutillo, Esq. Toward the end of this week, take a minute to add up and total the amount of US tariffs imposed on Chinese goods imported into the US. You can glean this data from online aggregated digital news, television news, or from US Government pronouncements about Trump ...
Protecting Your Business From Employee Poachers

Protecting Your Business From Employee Poachers

By Brian D. Kaider, Esq. You’ve been in business for several years and have a dozen hard-working, dedicated employees working for your company, or so you think. Out of the blue, a new competitor enters the market and the next thing you know, all 12 of your employees have jumped ...
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Wines of the New World: Peru

By Neal Johnston The earliest recorded historical evidence of setllements in the countries of the new world, also known as the Americas were attempts at colonisation made by the Europeans in as far back as the tenth century. During long voyages of exploration, Scandanavian ‘Norse’ saiors built the very first ...
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Ontario’s First Wine in a Can

By Phillip Woolgar Of all the things we find on the label of a bottle of wine, perhaps most important is the appellation. Getting down to the heart of the matter, the appellation is simply the wine’s address. It’s where the grapes were grown. This simple fact of where grapes ...
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Tidal Bay of NS is a Matter of Quality Over Quantity

By Phillip Woolgar More than 55,000 wine professionals from all over the world attended the ProWein International Trade Fair for Wines and Spirits in Dusseldorf, Germany last March. This year for the first time, these enthusiasts were able to taste the wines from one of the newer wine making regions ...
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Wines of the New World: MEXICO

By Neal Johnston Mexico appears on the horizon as one of the most important and relevant wine producing regions of the Americas, or countries of the New World. A fascinating example, Mexico has a rich and wonderful history. The ‘Rio Grande’ separates the USA and Mexico all the way to ...
Picking up Wine with Your Groceries

Picking up Wine with Your Groceries

By April Ingram Real Canadian Superstore South Surrey announces B.C. wine sales beginning today. (CNW Group/Loblaw Companies Limited) A ‘Foreign’ Concept Hitting British Columbia Supermarkets With changes to recent laws in some provinces, Canadians can now find local wines on their grocery store shelves. This is a relatively new concept ...