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Future success begins with today’s attitude

Who could have known that Rhode Island executives, as staff writer Bill Hamilton wites, were a “glass-is-half-full bunch after all?” The evidence is striking, coming in our third PBN Business Survey, conducted this summer, in which we asked the state’s private, for-profit enterprises about the health of their business as well as their take on where the state was headed. READ MORE

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R.I. business owners see improvements ahead

Turns out that Rhode Island’s executives are a glass-is-half-full bunch after all. The summer 2009 Providence Business News Business Survey shows that local companies, still hunkered down against the recession, are expecting to shake off the downturn by 2010 and experience an improved future. Many, in fact, already might be in the early stages of a rebound.

Building firms fight to survive recession

Warwick-based Casali & D’Amico Engineering leaped into survival mode by cutting staff from 20 to eight. President Joe Casali made up for some of the cuts by taking on a personal workload that keeps him on company business days, nights and weekends.

Down market points up for restaurant firms

A valuable lesson reinforced by the economic gyrations of the past 12 months is that in order to succeed, businesses must have the ability to turn on a dime. In the local food-service sector, there are a number of business owners and restaurateurs who could teach a course on the topic, and in one case, might even show how to change the world, too.

Bankruptcy hasn’t slowed action at Twin River

While future ownership of Twin River is in question, you wouldn’t know it from the packed gaming floors on many nights this summer. It’s been “business as usual” at the Lincoln slot parlor, according to Patti Doyle, spokesperson for BLB Investors LLC, the company that operates the popular entertainment venue.