One-stop shop aids women facing cancer treatment
Lisa Kaplan-Melnick opened Magic & Vanity, a boutique for female cancer patients, after chemotherapy left her bald and shopping painful. The store offers wigs, hats, mastectomy swimsuits, prosthetic breasts, makeup tips, and dresses, with staff who have cancer or cared for it.
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Hicago
Lisa Kaplan-Melnick
Kaplan-Melnick
Magic & Vanity
Liz Cohen
Chicago
Magic and
Vanity
Roslynn Marre
Marre
Cohen
Credit-card system can hurt merchants
Ed and Helen Trautman run Ohio Mobility in Springfield Township. They adopted credit cards seven years ago and saw sales rise, but a $2,500 charge-back disrupted cash flow and underscored the lack of merchant protections in the system.
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Knight-Ridder
Ed Trautman
Helen
Springfield Township
Ohio
Ohio Mobility
Trautman
Trautmans
Small Claims Court
Stephen Brookbank
FirstMerit
First National Bank of Ohio
Brookbank
CCH
Helen Trautman
Nasal strips fuel CNS growth from NFL hype to $85 million
CNS Inc of Bloomington built Breathe Right into a major brand after its 1994 NFL ties with Jerry Rice and other stars. The drug-free nasal strip, approved by the FDA, pulled open nostrils to ease breathing and snoring, boosting 1994 sales to 2.8 million and 1995 to 48.6 million, then 85.8 million in 1996.
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CNS Inc
Bloomington, Minn
Breathe Right
Food and Drug Administration
CNS
Bruce Johnson
Daniel E. Cohen
Early life shapes work ethic and hiring ideas
The piece argues formative years from elders and peers mold traits for work. It promotes probational hiring, clear job expectations, and rehabilitating faults over replacing staff, citing a son’s janitorial retraining as example of work ethic development.
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