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The Agnelli family, owners of Italian icons Ferrari and Juventus football club, has bought a 24 percent stake in French high-fashion brand Christian Louboutin, famous for its red-soled footwear. According to a joint statement, the 541 million euro ($642 million) investment is being made via the Agnelli's Exor holding company and will give them two seats out of seven on the board. FILE IMAGES OF LOUBOUTIN STORE IN PARIS
Zagreb, Feb 3 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Antonio Bat) Thousands of small business owners and workers in sectors that have been forced to close because of the coronavirus pandemic protested in the center of Zagreb on Wednesday to demand the reopening of their businesses.FOOTAGE OF PROTESTS IN ZAGREB.
Kyiv(Ukraine), Jan 28 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Sergey Dolzhenko).- Small business owners gathered on Thursday in Kyiv to demand the derogation of the new law on the simplified tax system. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN KYIV.
Jordan Nabigon is the CEO of the content curation site Shared. He was a big Facebook customer, spending nearly $46 million in ads on the site. That is, until the platform booted him without warning or explanation. According to Business Insider, Facebook says Shared violated the site's terms and conditions. However, it wouldn't explain what the violations were. Nabigon says several of Shared's pages have been unpublished since October 26, taking 21 million of the company's followers with them. He added that Facebook gave him no warning that they could or would unpublish his pages, and that Facebook told him the decision was final. Business Insider reports Facebook has also locked Nabigon out of his personal account.
Angelina Murphy paid off $100,000 in debt in just a year by making very smart money moves in her business. She says her default setting is as an artist, not a businesswoman. However, using a budget for the first time reined in her spending. According to Business Insider, the Seattle-area resident had three keys to her success: a niche market, expertise, and location. Her specialty, high-end, business offers luxury hair extensions to women with thinning hair or hair that won't grow very long. She's also very good at her job and invests in her ongoing professional development. Finally, Murphy keeps her expenses low by using her own garage as her location, instead of a pricey retail salon!
The US Federal government's Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, doled out hundreds of billions of dollars to businesses. The PPP's goal was to assist businesses during the nearly inevitable slowdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic. But according to Business Insider, many minority-owned businesses were left waiting for funds until the final weeks of the program. Many of our businesses were being turned down in the first and second round of funding. That caused application fatigue and frustration. Ron Busby President, US Black Chambers The Center For Responsible Lending says minority-owned businesses support 8.7 million jobs with an annual total payroll of $280 billion.