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IBAs in the News

12/28/03
Santa Fe IBA second in community's top 10 business news stories for year

12/23/03
Corvallis IBA founder and board member Jack Wolcott writes a regular column for a Corvallis daily newspaper. His December column describes how CIBA is helping revitalize downtown and maintain a place for entrepreneurship in the community through education and involvement.

12/13/03
Salt Lake City Vest Pocket Coalition speaks for independent business on state unemployment insurance hike

12/4/03
Austin IBA influences community holiday shopping

11/13/03
Austin challenges citizens to unchain for one day, impact community profoundly

11/13/03
New Alliance Emerging in Reno area in Nevada

10/14/03
Austin IBA Part of Community Faction Fighting Wal-Mart

9/14/03
Santa Fe Independent Business-Citizen Alliance grows in response to state's poverty and fears of multinational corporate power

AMIBA featured in July/August 2003 cover story of In Business magazine
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Issues

12/29/03
Mass-market retailers make exclusive deals with artists to bring in buyers

12/14/03
Traverse City Independent Businesses Brace for Chain Influx

12/6/03
Los Angeles Report is Critical of Supercenters, Recommends Citywide Ban

11/18/03
Santa Monica City Council Says Chain Retail Stores Limit Third Street's Culture

11/13/03
Independent Pharmacy Fights Chain Store Next-Door

11/10/03
Note: This article addresses an important factor that contributes to preventing anything resembling a "free market." While the industry represented only indirectly affects independent business (through employee spending), subsidies for big box development continue to stack the deck against our community-based businesses at taxpayer expense. We say: Invest in Community Instead!
States Give Subsides to Corporations as Lure, Don't Always Get What They Pay For

11/2/03
HIGH COST OF LOW PRICES--New focus on Wal-Mart's effect

10/31/03
Survivor: Mom-and-pop stores--some small shops resist the force of big retailers

10/28/03
Merger highlights growing trends of consolidation and globalization--loss of local control and ownership

10/22/03
Oakland City Council Approves Ban on "Big-Box" Grocery Stores

10/6/03
Independent music stores already reeling from Internet piracy and competition from mass merchants face another challenge: top bands entering into exclusive deals with mass marketers.

10/6/03
Chain Competition Cutting into Local Salon Business (we know--it begged for a punny title)

8/19/03
One of Twin Cities' Last Full-line Independent Bookstores Fights to Stay in Game

8/18/03
Small Minnesota Town, Chamber Generate Wide Press Coverage with PR stunt saying chains not welcome

7/22/03
Wal-Mart Supercenters Face California Resistance

General

9/23/03
Traveling with Your Values: Seeking Mom & Pop on the Road

Watching the Chains

9/25/03
French Franchise Dramatic Departure from "Formula" Look Helps Restaurants Succeed--and US-based Parent Corporation is Watching