Stimulus Package - NJMEP Style!
Need a little extra boost for your workplace? How about a FREE Seat at one of NJMEP's Workshops!? All you have to do is be one of the first 20 people to email kbaldwin@njmep.org with NJMEP Stimulus Package in the title. In the email, please state the workshop in May or June you would like to attend. For more information about workshops, please refer to the NJMEP Events section at the bottom of the newsletter. Winners will be notified by Kathleen Baldwin.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Get Results
In These Economic Times, Green Practices Pay
If saving 30 percent on utility costs sounds good, it’s just
a start to what can be accomplished by integrating green practices into your
business. Many small and mid-size
companies have implemented green practices within their organizations and have
reaped the rewards without large upfront investments.
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Lean Strategies for the Office
Faster Order Turnaround, New Office Design and Improved Processes – The Lean Way!
New Jersey companies are excited
about the benefits reaped from participating in the 2008 Lean Strategies for
the Office workshops presented by NJMEP.
Lean Strategies for the Office workshops are designed to help companies
streamline administrative processes with existing resources while eliminating
“non value-added” activities. Overall,
NJMEP clients report the workshops have successfully cut an average of twenty
percent of the time, effort, or costs associated with their processes.
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Put Money Back in Your Hands with R&D Tax Credits
Now that you have completed the annual April 15th tribute to
Uncle Sam, it is a good time to consider getting some of those paid taxes back
in your hands with R&D tax credits.
These credits are designed to help manufacturers recapture a portion of
the monies invested in developing or improving products and processes. As a manufacturer, you may be unaware that
many of your efforts to design your products qualify as R&D and may make
you eligible for tax credits for expenditures associated with these activities. NJMEP can help you uncover and describe the
activities that qualify and assist you in getting the appropriate tax credits.
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Succession Planning
A Required Vehicle for the Road to Retirement
Did you know that most businesses’ performance and value
drops 15-30 percent for the first three to four years after a
business owner retires?
Don Moore, Succession Planner and President of Decision
Associates shares this hard hitting fact as well as other incentives to help
you prepare for a better retirement future.
After all, can your stakeholders afford to see that depreciation of the
business? Can you?
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