National Small Business Association

Marketing and Networking

Bridgestone | August 25, 2022

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (Bridgestone) today launched "What Really Matters," a new brand platform that is linked to the values of the global Bridgestone E8 Commitment and showcases the company's focus on creating a more sustainable world for future generations.The What Really Matters platform marks a shift from the company's traditional product performance marketing campaigns to showcase purpose-driven actions that are improving the way people move, live, work and play. This ...

TECHNOLOGY

Instacart | September 08, 2023

• Instacart is introducing numerous major enhancements to Instacart Storefront, the platform that fuels e-commerce storefronts for over 550 retail brands. • The latest Instacart Storefront shares its core infrastructure with the Instacart App, offering retailers quicker access to a host of innovations driven by Instacart’s collection of 150 proprietary AI models. • Instacart is also ...

Crain's Cleveland Business: Homepage | March 26, 2020

Getting the $350 billion in loans for small businesses in the record U.S. stimulus package into business owners' hands before a wave of closures will strain the nation's network of lenders and regulators as never before. The magnitude of the plan is unprecedented for the Small Business Administration, an agency that distributed $28 billion in fiscal year 2019 and is in charge of the program. Some small-businesses groups that had advocated for immediate help in the form of cash grants are...

Newtek | April 29, 2020

Newtek announced on Monday (April 27) that its lender program, Newtek Small Business Finance (NSBF), has funded $518.2 million in loans for the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to a press release. The company estimated that this has been able to help 66,000 employees of borrowers from Newtek stay on the payroll. The NSBF estimated it has another $24.9 million in PPP loans that will be funded later this week by the Small Business Administration (SBA), the release...