Waiting for a `bears' market: Pearson transportation is riding high thanks to NFL contract. (Making It).

Black Enterprise | September 1, 2002| | Copyright

In 1998, Timothy Pearson, then the owner of a small janitorial services company, took a taxi home. The driver, he says, was smoking and the cab wasn't well maintained, making the journey an unpleasant one. That ride turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Believing he could do a better job, Pearson folded his small company and took out a bank loan for the $15,000 purchase of his first commercial vehicle and formed Courtesy Vans. A scant four years later and his company, Pearson Transportation Inc., is on the road to success. With 2001 revenues exceeding $200,000 and ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Bears and players: Philip Henslowe's double acts.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin ; Philip Henslowe is famous because of his Diary, the...sports as culturally antithetical. Philip Henslowe, however, evidently did not, and...we like to think. The Rose, when Philip Henslowe built it near the Bankside's baiting...
Domestical matters.(financial management of 16th Century theatrical backer Philip Henslowe)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies ; ...PROPOSED REISSUE of my edition of Henslowe's Diary (1961) (1) by Cambridge...aspects. What, after all, were Henslowe's own ambitions? He would today...Woodward acknowledges a debt to Philip Henslowe, who still called himself "Citizen...
Henslowe's "curious" diary.(Articles)
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England ; ...has become known to readers as Henslowe's "diary" retains a central...the other accounts that reveal Henslowe's sideline businesses in pawn...volume of accounts kept by Mr. Philip Henslowe, who appears to have been the...
Going down the drain in 1616: widow Henslowe and the Sewers Commission.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies ; ...a playhouse owner, Agnes Henslowe, who was married to Philip Henslowe, best known because he owned...In the period following Philip's death it was Agnes who...Additionally, evidence from Henslowe's Diary suggests that she...
Cheerful Givers: Henslowe, Alleyn, and the 1612 Loan Book to the Crown.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies ; ...in-law), Fulke Greville, and Robert Fludd, the well-known physician, alchemist, and rosicrucian.(5) Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn appear together on fol. 140(4) under the section devoted to Surrey, which spans just under...
"I desyre to be paid": interpreting the language of remuneration in early modern dramatic archives.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama ; ...two different bosses: plays for Philip Henslowe and a Lord Mayor's Show for the...city's leading playwrights. In Henslowe's Diary and all of the London...for work done to produce drama. Henslowe's records regard work as "payments...
Elizabethan impresario's archive goes online
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times ; ...theatre-owner and impresario Philip Henslowe and his actor son-in-law Edward...member of acting troupes from which Henslowe commissioned plays, and the newly...with Tudor audiences, earning Henslowe 40 shillings in one day, though...
Dulwich MS. XX, The Telltale: clues to provenance.(Articles)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England ; ...companies and their stagings. Chief among them is Philip Henslowe's "Diary," much quoted, used, and misused...expectations. As (mis)chance would have it, of all Philip Henslowe's theatrical and public entertainment activities...
`SHAKESPEARE' FULL OF IN-JOKES FOR AUDIENCES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ; ...be passed off as his own work. Philip Henslowe (portrayed by Geoffrey Rush...Shakespeare in Love'' shows Henslowe furiously scribbling in a book during rehearsals. In fact, Henslowe's account books, usually referred...
REVIEW: Public Relations - A Practical Guide to the Basics.(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books ; ...M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Philip Henslowe's starter guide to...what it says it will. Henslowe provides practical...paragraphs compliments Henslowe's economical, but...to the BasicsAUTHOR: Philip HenslowePUBLISHER: Kogan...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Waiting for a `bears' market: Pearson ..."