Southern Nevada Paving Sold Aggregate Industries, a British aggregates and building-materials group, recently announced the purchase of Southern Nevada Paving Company Inc., Nevada Paving, Inc. and Valley Trucking, Inc. (SNP) for $64.1 million cash. SNP is a paving contractor and also produces asphalt and aggregate. In 2002, the company had sales of $101 million and produced … [Read more...] about January 2004: Nevada Briefs
Archives for January 2004
Employer Beware: Top Ten Legal Mistakes to Avoid
Employees know they have rights in the workplace and are not hesitant to exercise those rights, as is evidenced by the increase in the number of charges of discrimination and lawsuits filed. As employers, you have rights, too (i.e., the right to terminate your employees’ at-will employment at any time for any reason, so long as the reason is not illegal). Not all employers, … [Read more...] about Employer Beware: Top Ten Legal Mistakes to Avoid
Industry Focus: Accountants – CPA Firms Face Changes and Challenges
Representatives of the state’s leading CPA firms gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel on November 14 to discuss issues affecting their profession. The gathering was part of Nevada Business Journal’s monthly Industry Outlook series. Kathleen Foley, editor of Nevada Business Journal, served as moderator for the roundtable, which included discussion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of … [Read more...] about Industry Focus: Accountants – CPA Firms Face Changes and Challenges
Nevada’s Millennium Scholarship Program: Facing Future Challenges
Editor’s Note: Nevada Business Journal asked State Treasurer Brian Krolicki to answer the question: "What’s ahead for the Millennium Scholarship program?" In 2000, young Nevadans for the first time became eligible to receive a state-sponsored scholarship to attend an in-state college or university of their choice. The Millennium Scholarship Program gives the opportunity of … [Read more...] about Nevada’s Millennium Scholarship Program: Facing Future Challenges
Meeting the Challenges of Rural Healthcare: NNRH Serves Elko County
Meeting the unique healthcare needs of a rural community is, at best, difficult. Elko General Hospital, which first opened in 1921 in central Elko, had been enlarged and remodeled several times, but the need for a larger, updated facility became more apparent with each passing year. To meet this challenge, in 1998 Elko County sold the old brick building to Brentwood, … [Read more...] about Meeting the Challenges of Rural Healthcare: NNRH Serves Elko County
So You Want To Do A Deal … A Checklist for Business Owners
Notwithstanding the slower economy and weak venture capital and stock markets, Nevada is loaded with highly successful family-owned businesses approaching critical decision points. These decision points may arise from shifts in management or ownership to the next generation, retirement, need for capital to expand or remain competitive, or desire to diversify the family assets … [Read more...] about So You Want To Do A Deal … A Checklist for Business Owners