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Small Business Visits
Site Visit: Great Clips! Entrepreneur Franchisee Provides Career Opportunities for Stylists
By Bruce E. Lundegren, Assistant Chief Counsel
Jerry Akers has a real passion for his businesses – and for his employees. Jerry’s family-owned business – called Sharpness, Inc. - currently owns fifteen Great Clips hair salon franchises…
Site Visit: Puck Enterprises in Iowa
By Jason Doré, Assistant Chief Counsel for External Affairs/Director of Information
As the son of an Iowan farmer, Ben Puck has strived to build a business that not only provided him with the ability to maintain his family farm, but also…
Site Visit: Small Mechanical Services Company in Council Bluffs, Iowa
By Bruce E. Lundegren, Assistant Chief Counsel
Staff from the Office of Advocacy visited Rasmussen Mechanical Services in Council Bluffs, Iowa, following Advocacy’s recent Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtable in that city. Advocacy was…
All Boxed Up! How Federal Regulations Box Small Businesses
By Joe Knilans, Rural Affairs Advocate
Advocacy visited a small packaging company in Platteville, Wisconsin to hear how federal regulations have an impact on small businesses in Wisconsin. L & M Corrugated Container is a small,…
Site Visit: Advocacy visits Iowa-based Company Focusing on Helping Small Businesses Comply with…
By Janis Reyes, Assistant Chief Counsel
Advocacy has visited over 20 states hosting Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables to hear directly from small businesses about what federal regulations are burdensome to them. Small business…
Advocacy Visits with Small Businesses in Omaha, Nebraska
By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel
On July 16, 2018 Advocacy staff attended a small roundtable with members of the agriculture industry in Omaha, Nebraska. Members of many major sectors of agriculture including grain and seed,…
Site Visit: Planting Skilled Labor Troublesome for Family Farm
By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel
On June 6, Assistant Chief Counsels Prianka Sharma and Jamie Belcore and Rural Advocate Joseph Knilans visited Yarborough Ranches in Seminole County, Fla., where they participated in a small…
Site Visit: Ale in a Day’s Work
By Nick Ivory, Regional Legislative and Regulatory Manager
During Advocacy’s trip to Florida, we stopped by 81Bay Brewing Co. to learn about regulatory issues affecting small brewing companies. Founded just recently in 2016, the company…
Site Visit: Citizens Bank of Florida Believes Others Have Competitive Advantage
By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate
The Office of Advocacy visited Citizens Bank of Florida in Orlando on June 6th to listen to the concerns of community bank leaders about federal regulation of small institutions in the financial services…
Federal Regulations Discussion has Small Business Jumping off the Rails
By Thomas Rossomando, National Advocate for Manufacturing and Technology
The Office of Advocacy recently attended a Regulatory Roundtable in Jacksonville, Fla. Thanks to the hard work of Bruce LeVell, the Regional Advocate for Region 4,…