Western Montana InBusiness – December 2009 – Gifts, parties, sick leave and flu usher out 2009

We made it! Another year draws to a close, but not without another December filled with holiday goings-on and time spent away from the office with family and friends.

By SHERRY DEVLIN

All of us here at Western Montana InBusiness http://www.mtinbusiness.com/inbiz-0912/index.php wish all of you a very happy holiday season. May the month to come find you healthy and smiling, enjoying 2009’s farewell and looking forward to a bright and successful new year.

This month’s InBusiness http://www.mtinbusiness.com/inbiz-0912/index.php does a little of all those things, with a great lineup of stories: on office parties and year-end bonuses; on sick leave policies and the swine flu epidemic; on the change of leadership at the Missoula Chamber of Commerce; and on several small businesses making their way amid trying economic times.

Graphics editor Ken Barnedt has two full pages of charts and graphs that you’ll want to spend considerable time perusing, and our readers have submitted a whole page of photographs from recent business events in and around Missoula.

We’re already at work on the first InBusiness of the new year, and hope you’ll help by sending in your business resolutions for 2010. Just drop me a note at [email protected], or fax to (406) 523-5294 or mail to P.O. Box 8029, Missoula, MT 59807.

See you next year!

Sherry Devlin is editor of Western Montana InBusiness and the Missoulian. You can reach her at (406) 523-5250 or by e-mail at [email protected].

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