Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:34 PM

Minority Franchise Buyers Conference
April 23, 2005
York College Jamaica, NY

The Kip Business Report and Citibank just held its Minority Franchise Buyers Conference, at York College in Jamaica, under the auspices of Congressman Gregory Meeks. There was a great turnout, with participants including such companies like Blackman & Associates, the Jamaica Business Resource Center, the Greater Jamaica Development Corp., York College Small Business Development Center, U.S. Small Business Administration, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Verizon, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, WWRL 1600, A.M., Quizno’s Subs, Domino’s Pizza, Maui Wowi, Dunkin Donuts, Wing Zone and Subways.
William Thompson was the keynote speaker during the lunch hour. He spoke about how his office has helped banks like Carver Federal Savings by depositing $5M and helping them to grow, and in turn helping others in business. He also said he will be looking to invest close to $150M in different community banks to help them make loans available to business and community. He praised Congressman Meeks for putting on a great event, as well as Lloyd Grant, from KIP Business Report.

This was a great event, with an attendance of close to 300 people. Other guests in attendance were Councilman Leroy Comerie; John L. Scott; Director of the Greater Jamaican Development Corp.; Timothy Marshall, President of Jamaican Business Resource, and many other respected business and corporate heads. We would like to thank Mr. Lloyd Grant, from KIP Business Report, for his kind invitation. For more information, please log onto the Kip website, at www.kipbusinessreport.com.

Lidia Vita and Betty Coker are known as "The Dynamic Duo". The reason or this is they both work well hand-in-hand. They will cover trade shows, e.g. World Famous ENK shows, Fame shows, computer technology expos, gift shows and other trade shows and expos to educate you folks on how you can attend them, and give you exclusive, in-depth interviews with the vendors and the people behind these trade shows and the new products on the market. They will also educate you about different cultures and festivities. If you are interested in having the dynamic duo write about your festival or trade show, or have any comments or suggestions for them, please feel free to email them at dynamicduo@hadofnyc.org, or telephone them at our hotline, at (718) 507-7616 between the hours 8:00am and 8:00pm Monday through Friday.