Archive for October, 2011

Fewer Consumers Expect A Jolly 2011 Holiday Shopping Season

Roughly 200 million Americans are expected to go shopping for gifts this holiday season, although with slightly less optimism than last year. According to a new Consumer Reports Holiday Shopping Poll, just 33 percent of Americans said they expect to be happier this holiday season than last, compared to 40 percent who felt that way [...]

U.S. Toys Imports Drop 9 Percent Despite Coming Holidays

Toys imports into the United States tumbled 9 percent year-over-year in September, as the country’s retailers apparently chose caution over Christmas cheer heading into the 2011 holiday season, according to figures from The Journal of Commerce/PIERS. The drop in container volume, most of it from China, was the eighth straight for toys coming into the [...]

Tips to Navigate 2011 Tax Changes

Every year brings with it new changes related to W-2 and 1099 forms and reporting requirements. Due to the government’s increasing focus on the proverbial “tax gap,” it’s more important than ever for small business to understand the changing W-2 and 1099 reporting environment. Greatland, one of the country’s leading providers of W-2 and 1099 [...]

SanDisk Announced $500 Million Stock Repurchase Program

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, announced that its Board of Directors has approved a program authorizing the repurchase of up to $500 million of the company’s common stock over a period of up to five years. Under this program, stock repurchases may be made from time to time and [...]