Business

Small Business Saturday Profile: Nu 2 U Consignment & Gifts

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The sign at Nu2U with a Small Business Saturday flyer. Courtesy photo

BUSINESS News:

Nu2U is a gift and consignment shop in Los Alamos. The Nu2U vendor team of local entrepreneurs strives to provide shoppers with opportunities to purchase quality items at reasonable prices.

Nu2U Consignments is a division of Atomic City Designs, LLC, devoted to offering affordable, quality items to the northern New Mexico community through a team of forward-thinking entrepreneurs. It is a Christian-owned business that offers a wide variety of quality goods coupled to affordable photographic services. Read More

Amy Hollabaugh Creates Holiday Floral Arrangements

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Floral and table decorations designed by Amy Hollabaugh. Courtesy photo

Fall wreath designed by Amy Hollabaugh. Courtesy photo

BUSINESS News:

The holiday season is just around the corner and holLAdesign Ltd. Co. is gearing up to create “scentsational” flower arrangements to decorate tables, front doors or entire rooms.

Amy Hollabaugh is a third generation native of Los Alamos. She launched holLAdesign Ltd. Co. in October 2008 from her home in White Rock after earning her bachelor’s degree in interior design from the University of Oklahoma earlier that year.

“I use color Read More

Los Alamos Business Community Gears Up For Small Business Saturday

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CHAMBER News:

A wide-ranging group of local businesses and United Way of Northern New Mexico are coordinating an effort to promote and support Small Business Saturday Nov. 29.

Dozens of local retailers, restaurants, service providers, home-based businesses and non-profits in Los Alamos and White Rock plan to offer specials and in-store events to help celebrate the national initiative designed to support small businesses during the holiday season.

“At CB FOX, Small Business Saturday is our most important shopping day of the year,” said Andy Fox, president of CB FOX. “I hope when shoppers Read More

Yang: The Prison Walls For The Middle Group

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The Prison Walls For The Middle Group
Part 5 of the series on intergroup dynamics
By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

My sympathies initially were with the Middle group; they really were squeezed between two polarizing forces. The tension from such polarization was the basic reason for the Middle’s existence, yet managing this tension was what ultimately trapped them. 

The middle group always tried to mediate between the top and the lower. However, the paradox of “success” for the Middle group meant that a relatively peaceful co-existence between the top and the lower would render the Middle group Read More

New Mexico Finishes 38th – Again – In Business Tax Climate

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In the annual rankings of business tax climates, New Mexico finishes 38th for the fourth year in a row. Image/Creative Commons

 

By Rob Nikolewski

There hasn’t been much climate change in New Mexico — at least when it comes to the business tax climate.

For the fourth straight year, New Mexico finished 38th in national rankings compiled by the Tax Foundation, a pro-growth organization that compiles an annual list of states with the most business-friendly tax climates.

“New Mexico still has some problems,” said Scott Drenkard, economist and manager of state projects Read More

Gary Xie Making His American Dream Come True

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Gary Xie, right, with Nik Seet, left, and classmate Jason Cox, as Xie wins his first business award at the UNM-LA Pitch Day for his business, Daisy Chain. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner

By MANDY MARKSTEINER

When Gary Xie came to the United States from China 20 years ago, he had two suitcases and $500 in cash.

Four years later, after he graduated from the University of Florida, he landed his first job at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). It was the kind of high paying and stable job that every fresh graduate dreams about. Sound familiar? A typical American dream, right?

Now, he has another America dream, Read More

LAAOR Hosts 2014 Election And Affiliates Day

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Members of the Los Alamos Association of REALTORS® from left, President-Elect Cindy Hollabaugh with affiliates Title Guaranty, LLC owner/President Denise Terrazas, Amy Hollabaugh of holLAdesign Ltd. and Title Guaranty Office Manager Patti Teergarden. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
LAAOR  News:

The Los Alamos Association of REALTORS® (LAAOR) hosted its annual 2014 Election and Affiliates Day Thursday at the Holiday Inn at La Entrada.

New officers were elected and will take office Jan. 1 including:

  • President-Elect Cindy Hollabaugh;
  • President Elect David Horpedahl;
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U.S. Treasury Awards $4.4 Million To New Mexico To Aid Small Business And Economic Development

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Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin

STATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Treasury Department today announced that New Mexico has received $4,477,239 in State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) funds to help small businesses access the capital they need to grow and create jobs.

To date, $13,168,350 in SSBCI funds have been disbursed to the New Mexico Economic Development Department and the New Mexico Finance Authority to support businesses and the local economy.

“Small businesses are the engines of our nation’s economy, and they need access to capital in order to expand Read More

Hilltop Spa Announces New Hours

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A massage room at the new Hilltop Spa. Courtesy photo

BUSINESS News:

Hilltop Spa is extending its hours to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and also is now open until 6 p.m.,  Monday, Tuesday and Saturday. The Spa opens at 10 a.m. every day except Sunday.

Services include massage facial, waxing, salt glow, bio peel, full hair services, makeup application, spray tanning, manicure, pedicure, lash and brow tinting. Hilltop Spa also offers the amenities of an infrared sauna and steam room to enhance spa treatments. 

The Spa recently moved to 1789 Central Ave., Read More