By Robert Kalesse Special to Delaware Business Times At first glance, residents of neighboring states like Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey might look upon Delaware and think the First State is nothing more than a place where sales tax goes to die and corporations go to thrive. While both are true (and rather good attributes,…
By Christi Milligan Senior Staff Writer Their clients may not have been blindsided, but with some renewal premiums going up as much as 100 percent, Delaware accountants admit that the brass tacks of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are sobering. Funneling concerns to their most trusted insurance brokers, accountants are busy with other fine points…
By Kathy Canavan DBT Senior Writer Delawareans may feel the economy is still down, but data show things are actually looking up. The state added 5,710 jobs in 2012 and 8,450 in 2013, and it’s on track to beat those numbers this year. “There still seems to be a perception that we’re still in a…
By Christi Milligan Senior Staff Writer For David St. Clair, chairman of Sanosil International, red tape and travel glitches are maddening. As each day brings a new wave of heartbreaking images from West Africa and safety concerns here at home, he fights to get his one-of-a-kind disinfecting fogger system onto a plane and into a…
By Kathy Canavan DBT Senior Reporter The Gold Ballroom of the Hotel Du Pont was packed for K.R. Ravindran’s speech to the Rotary Club of Wilmington on Oct. 9. About 250 members – more than twice the usual attendance – came to hear the Rotary’s international president kick off the club’s centennial year. The 100-year-old…
By Christi Milligan Senior Staff Writer If there’s a formula for identifying the area’s emerging workforce needs, then Delaware Tech President Mark T. Brainard and his team may have found it: a wide-ranging advisory committee comprised of industry employers paired with a new research arm that identifies future-focused skill needs. The result is an impressive…
“If you’re not growing, you’re dying,” is a quote attributed to hundreds of people who inspire, from Anthony Robbins to Lou Holtz. Dozens of us in Delaware business have signed on to that in terms of our hometown. We “drank the Kool-Aid,” and it’s time for another serving! We are in the earliest stages of…
Delaware’s Captive Insurance Association fall forum planned for Oct. 27-28 at the Hotel DuPont will be as much of a “home run trot” as it is a professional growth experience. And Delaware’s Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart will be helping cheerlead that celebration, like the manager from the dugout who has seen the team she…
According to recent press reports, our State of Delaware is under economic and legal assault that could jeopardize Delaware’s primacy as the “Domicile of Choice” for business incorporation. Chomping at the bit to usurp Delaware are those states who lust after the revenue that we Delawareans enjoy in exporting our tax burden, as well as…
By Christi Milligan Senior Staff Writer It’s a weekday in New Castle County, and the tech startups of downtown Wilmington are finessing the expanding details of their infant businesses, ideas borne from a “we-should-really-do-this” attitude and the hope that investors might see potential. Fewer than 15 miles away, in the offices of the Delaware…
