Meanwhile in Kilrea, a family firm has been looking for new ways to make the business recession-proof.
Mr Mandell thinks the modesty of such purchases makes his business recession-proof.
Business leaders at the time called it a mere "business recession" to whittle down excess capacity and high inventories built up in response to rising commodity prices.
Why is this small business recession persisting?
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The business is recession-resistant, so there is not a lot of downside here.
Janice Birch lost her costume jewellery business when recession struck, as well as a property she bought as an investment.
The threats to your business are recession and Wall Street jitters.
But the federation's reading on expected business conditions remained deep in recession territory, and business owners reporting declining sales far outnumbered those saying sales increased.
So, either you survived as a small business through the Great Recession, or out of necessity you started a business that is now in its third or fourth year of operation.
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The slow recovery of business starts from the recession could be exacerbated by the long-run decline in business formation I mentioned earlier.
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Only 14% of small business owners expected a recession the last time the survey was conducted in December, 2011.
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Big business may be flourishing, but small business is still in recession.
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She says it was sometimes difficult to secure work during the boom years because of high competition, and the recession caused business to dry up.
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Coming out of recession, business spending starts to show signs of life while consumers, still spooked by the job market, keep their wallets locked down awhile longer.
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Having started my own business as the Great Recession was picking up steam, I got a crash course in how big businesses slow down payments to small contractors when times are tough.
In the same 25-year time span only two times have the analysts been too bearish compared to actual earnings, and this was in the recovery phase of the business cycle after a recession.
Having a business that grew more profitable right through the recession canned tuna is a pretty good business when households are slashing budgets certainly helped matters.
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After tightening greatly during the Great Recession, small business borrowing had been becoming more available.
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In the current recession, small business has accounted for 60% of all job losses.
In fact, setting up a business during a downturn or recession may even work in your favour.
They used to say in Britain that if you want to own a recession-proof business you should buy a pub or become a bookmaker.
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Add up these insults to the economy and there is no doubt that they are hobbling international trade, hurting U.S. business productivity and prolonging the recession.
Mr Clune told the committee that he was aware of the concerns of business and commuters during the recession, but stressed that they had also suffered.
Despite the dismal economic outlook, there still seems to be a genuine interest and curiosity about the recession and in business-related fields in general, faculty members say.
Some elements of Cisco's business may thrive in a recession.
When we first visited during last year's campaign, Forrest told us her business was struggling because the recession had convinced people to scale back on hair braiding and other personal luxuries.
The NBER waited until now to declare an end to the recession because its Business Cycle Dating Committee wanted to see the most recent revisions of GDP and GDI figures, released in July and August.
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