Montana Business

"This is yet another example of the Small Business Jobs Act putting proven tools in the hands of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners," said SBA Acting District Director Robert Much.

We are announcing today, a program that will allow small businesses facing maturity of commercial mortgages or balloon payments before Dec. 31, 2012, to use SBA’s 504 loan program to refinance their mortgage debt.

"As of today we have not closed on any portion of the plant for sale,"

The state chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AFF), the Great Falls Ad Club, presented PartnersCreative http://www.partnerscreative.com with 16 Gold ADDY awards, including Best of Show – Broadcast for its "Jesse" television commercial created for Advanced Imaging that encourages women not to procrastinate about getting a mammogram. The same commercial also won the competition’s overall Best of Show award.

Missoula is the only major Montana city to experience three straight years of economic declines, from 2008 to 2010, according to University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research.

Financial experts predicted growth in cities across Montana at an economic outlook seminar Friday, while local business leaders here singled out tourism as the Flathead Valley’s biggest boon.

"We
represent a new model of manufacturing -capital-light facilities and high-value products. This means
that $1.3 million can go much further in our hands, than in a traditional, capital-intensive
manufacturing facility."

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. http://www.acs-inc.com/ , announced Wednesday that it plans to expand its Helena operation, adding 40 new jobs by the end of March and up to 200 over the next two years.

RightNow’s support for Match.com is typical of what analysts expect to see as organizations, including Yahoo, ramp up their customer-service.

Many of the new jobs that are being created require specialized skills. Bitterroot Job Service is working with Specialized Fittings and other businesses to help retrain workers who have lost jobs to layoffs or business closures.