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Small business owners are busier than most people on earth, and that's why Your Biz is here. For seasoned business owners and budding entrepreneurs alike, we'll tackle it all - health care, franchising, taxes, the latest gadgets and even how to balance work and life. Yes, it's possible, even when you're your own boss. Primary author Eve Tahmincioglu has been covering small business and entrepreneurship for more than a decade. She regularly writes about small business issues for the New York Times and BusinessWeek's SmallBiz magazine. She also writes the Your Career column for MSNBC.com. She is the author of "From the Sandbox to the Corner Office." .
Lofty Sights for Gulf Oil's New Concept
Gulf Oil LP, a more-than-100-year-old company based in Newton, Mass., is currently undertaking Phase 1 of a three-step program to transform 11 sites on the Massachusetts Turnpike into Gulf Sunrise Gasoline and Retail Centers. The project, which features the company's new Gulf Express convenience store, is an effort to simultaneously update Gulf's Turnpike locations and develop a concept for franchising to its dealers and distributors. "As soon as Joe [Petrowski, president and CEO of Gulf Oil] took over and put together a leadership team, he insisted we communicate better with our customers," said Rick Dery, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Gulf Oil. "We started listening to them, and they said, 'We would like the option to participate in a c-store concept with traction.' A lot of our distributors have something such as 'Bill's Convenience Store.' By developing a franchise concept around Gulf Express, consumers can have confidence in the merchandise they buy at the locations." These 11 Turnpike locations will be the launchpad for the Gulf Sunrise Gasoline and Retail Centers, which feature the Gulf Express c-store.
Eidos Announces North American Street Date for 'Kane & Lynch: Dead Men'
Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today announced that the highly anticipated new action shooter crime-drama, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men will be available in stores beginning Nov. 20, 2007 throughout North America. The title is developed by the award winning team at IO Interactive, creators of the multi-million selling Hitman franchise. The game will be available for the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system, PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system, and PC Games for Windows platforms.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a dark and gritty tale of two men -- one a flawed mercenary, the other a medicated psychopath -- forced to embark on a violent and chaotic journey, hating each other every step of the way.
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