How to Make Your Company Attractive to Lenders

As we approach the end of 2014, the US economy continues to show measurable progress and for many, it finally feels like the financial crisis is solidly in the rear view mirror. Yet, despite the improving picture, many middle market companies are still struggling to find the capital necessary to pursue growth or address challenges […]

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Tight-Knit Numbers Keeps Racanelli Family on Growth Path

Melville, New York – Earlier this year, when Walgreen Co. signed a 20-year lease on a 20,000-square-foot building in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, locals weren’t the only ones pleased to hear about their new neighbor. Martin Racanelli of Racanelli Construction, Melville, New York, routinely stays wired to New York City’s Walgreen grapevine, and he knew that the Bed-Stuy […]

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One-Time Startups Graduate Into the Ranks of Middle-Market Firms

As Growth in Mobile Apps Goes Exponential, DocuSign Emerges as Silicon Valley’s Sensible Shoes If necessity is the mother of invention, how then do you explain something like Facebook? Of course, few seasoned business leaders would likely not deem the social media platform today as a business necessity. Still, when you consider some of Silicon […]

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Three Business Leaders Keep Their Edge Inside the Empire State

For Insurance Carrier, Middle America Spreads the Risks as it Deepens the Rewards White Plains, NY – Being only the fourth person in 70 years to lead Amalgamated Life of White Plains, New York, David Walsh likes to characterize the company’s latest chapter as the end of the beginning. What lies ahead, according to Walsh, is an […]

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Once Forbidden, Optimism Returns to the Middle-Market’s Growth-Minded Business Leaders

As 2013’s first calendar quarter unwinds, middle-market business leaders have begun to echo a bold new sentiment — or at least one seldom heard in recent years. Middle-market watcher Bill Fink, EVP and chief lending officer at TD Bank, doesn’t hesitate to use the word “optimism” when characterizing the new business sentiment. Armed with the […]

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