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Weed. It’s complicated. The patchwork nature of the surging cannabis industry has created challenges for even the most successful businesses due to shifting regulations and a lack of access to banking and insurance services. However, some cannabis companies like wholesaler Buddies Brand are lending order to the chaos by using big business techniques, including a […]

His employer noted for fashioning safe and secure roofs for nationwide commercial clientele, Kevin Rast can be certain of the stability of Simon Roofing’s data center in Youngstown, Ohio. Yet if it were struck by a meteorite, he says business as usual could resume in three or four hours. A veteran technology professional who became […]

The printing revolution was kicked off by German Johannes Gutenberg’s proto-printing press, first used in 1440. By some accounts, that revolution is still underway. Except you can forget about the messy ink and toxic lead castings. Instead, think digital printing which, like the digital revolution surrounding it, has the power to disrupt the status quo […]

The team at California-based women’s online clothier, LuLaRoe, was on to something when it developed its entrepreneurial-based sales model back in 2013. Seven years later, and even during a pandemic, its network has more than 10,000 retailers and is keeping stride with increased sales through that network, says Chief Technology Officer Guillermo Lopez. As he […]

Recall news can be frightening. The snack cakes you like so much may contain mold. The granola bars you buy have traces of nuts that are hazardous to people with food allergies. The hand sanitizer you’re relying on during the coronavirus pandemic may contain methanol. Fortunately, the alerts go beyond a press release that lists […]

When a company is spun off from or sold by another larger entity, a sense of cautious optimism is to be expected. With new ownership come new opportunities—and a chance to become indispensable. That was certainly the case for Pittsburgh-based water technology company Evoqua Water Technologies when, in 2014, it was sold by its global […]

Even for someone who’s a 20-year veteran of an established company, a new year can mean a fresh start. Such was the case in 2020 for COO Scott Krueger and the Appleton, Wisconsin-based Salelytics. For 30 years, Salelytics has handled inside sales, account management and inbound support services for Fortune 100 and 500 companies. In […]

For Paul Holmen, director of Information Technology with Revolution Lighting Technologies, learning about technology was a lifetime process that started while watching his father work in IT. “Learning about that space at a very young age helped me gain a phenomenal amount of enterprise infrastructure experience” he says. Now director of IT for Revolution Lighting […]

When Air Products & Chemicals Inc. spun off its electronic materials business in October 2016, the spinoff’s CIO asked Tammy Klotz to lead the information security program for the new company, Versum Materials. She was flattered, but apprehensive. After all, the world of electronics moves at rapid speed, with instant access to sensitive information providing […]

The February 2019 landslide brought chunky boulders, splintered tree limbs and goopy piles of soil down from the steep hills above the Pali Highway, which links Honolulu to the east side of Oahu. Damages closed the road for nine months as the state’s Department of Transportation rebuilt the road, extended a shed-type roof to better […]