In the first quarter of 2014, there were over 45,000 Consumer Bankruptcy Chapter 13 discharges. That number is up 19.4% from first quarter discharges in 2013 (38,000) and up 59.6% from first quarter 2012 (28,668).
PLEASE NOTE: Our data is based on one per household, minus multiple filers and has been cleansed to postal specifications.
It looks as if Toyota Motor Corp. is heading to the Lone Star State.
The company is moving its U.S. sales headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to suburban Dallas, according to a report from Reuters. Read more by clicking here.
We are very excited to announce that our corporate HQ, Business Extension Bureau has earned the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) highest industry honor, The Platinum Hermes Award. The honor is for their entry of a quarterly newsletter known as, The Bureau.
This year’s competition was fierce, with over 5,500 entrants from all over the world vying for top honors. The annual contest is for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional and emerging media. Entries came from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers.
The AMCP is an international organization that consists of several thousand marketing professionals. The judges look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. Winners were selected from 195 categories and only 15% of the entries won top honors.
Congratulations to BEB-Business Extension Bureau!
May you and yours have a safe and happy Easter from all of us at BEBdata
Ron just figured out that he was this year’s recipient of the prestigious AMSP-SW Helsley Family Award.
The Association of Marketing Service Providers, Southwest Chapter presented it’s lifetime achievement honor, The Helsley Family Award, to Ron Royall, President and CEO of BEB-Business Extension Bureau.
The presentation was made at the association’s 2014 annual convention in April. Since its inception in 1971, this award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated a long history of significant and outstanding achievement in the marketing service provider industry. It can only be won once, and past recipients select each new winner. Royall is a second-generation Helsley Family Award recipient as his father, Robert “Bob” Royall, founder of BEB-Texas, was presented the honor in 2001.
BEB is a family owned, marketing production company, founded in 1949 and located in the museum district of Houston, Texas. Ron Royall earned his degree in accounting and finance from Texas A&M in 1984 and started his career as a tax accountant with Arthur Andersen, the largest accounting firm in the world at the time.
Returning to the family business to help with a transitional period in 1991, Royall grew the business by upgrading the company’s computer system, expanding service offerings and constructing the financial arm of the creation of BEBdata. BEBdata is one of the largest consumer bankruptcy data compilers in the U.S. today.
Bob Royall, turned over the reins as CEO to his son, Ron, in 2007 to lead the company and face the challenges surrounding the recession. Under the second-generation Royall, the company has grown. Revenues increased by 15%, expanding service offerings now include strategic marketing plans, analytics, and full service printing which includes offset, digital, and wide-format. A leader in social marketing media, BEB has received multiple awards for their social media, video marketing, and direct mail campaigns.
One of the biggest problems independent auto dealers have is getting financing to run their credit operations. Now, a Milwaukee-area entrepreneur with a long auto sales pedigree has come up with a way to help dealers raise more money, and lower their financing costs while allowing a new group of investors to get into the auto finance business.
Read more from this great article by George Yacik by clicking here.
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