Convenience-store giant 7-Eleven recently expanded its holdings in Florida, pumping $57 million into Palm Beach County to purchase dozens of gas stationsand plans to take over 30 others in Broward Count.

7-Eleven Inc. in December announced its plan to acquire Exxon Mobil’s retail interests in 183 Florida sites, five of which are unused parcels. The deal is for sites in Orlando, Southwest Florida, and Broward and Palm Beach counties.

7-Eleven bought each of the 33 locations in Palm Beach County for between $196,246 and $5,061,067, according to the county clerk’s website.

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Since 1989, India has been on a reform agenda, opening its economy and dismantling the license Raj that had shackled the country since Independence in 1947. And as the country found its economic rhythm, a curious thing happened – consumers began demanding more not only from their government and their commercial providers (i.e. the mobile phone company, the cable TV guy) but more recently, from their spiritual providers as well.

In India, a nation of over 1 Billion people where the vast majority is Hindu, there are thousands if not millions of temples.  If I were to grossly generalize, those temples fall into 2 main categories i.e. the local and the nirvana-worthy. Th

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We read, quite consistently, that innovation should be “everyone’s” job. That’s a simple encomium that is at least partially true. However, we also know that innovation is difficult, exacting work that requires new insights and new skills. How can “everyone” do innovation when barely anyone gets any training?

So, what is the appropriate distribution of the work involved in innovating? Should “everyone” participate, and by that do we mean literally everyone – customers, partners and employees, or are we only talking about internal employees when we say “everyone”? Or, if innovation is

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Many of life’s events are cause for inspiration. For Jay Feinberg, it was his battle with cancer, reports Reuters.

It has been 20 years since he battled leukemia and won, but that hasn’t stopped him from pushing forward to help other with the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation.

Feinberg abandoned plans to become a lawyer and devoted himself fulltime to running Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, his nonprofit venture now based in Boca Raton, Florida. It

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One of the state’s best-known business experts will visit Evansville next week for a regional economic workshop.

Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, will be one of three speakers at the workshop, to be held Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the University of Southern Indiana’s Carter Hall.

Hicks’ research focuses on issues that affect state and local economies.

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