Stories by Bob Pepalis on Business Daily

A wet wipes manufacturer plans to expand its operations in Indiana even more than first announced last year due to increased product demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Small Business Week celebrated the 592,000 small businesses in Arizona that in August helped lower the state’s unemployment rate by more than 4%, down to 5.9%.

A Dallas-based mattress manufacturer has begun hiring the first of as many as 350 workers for the $8.6 million production facility it is leasing and equipping in La Porte, Indiana.

Hospitality industry experts project U.S. hotel occupancy will fall short of 40% of their pre-COVID-19 numbers and bounce back a bit in 2021 to 52%, findings presented at STR’s Hotel Data Conference determined.

Downtown Tucson businesses will get a helping hand through two grants to meet the challenges of operating in a COVID-19 pandemic environment.

Parts of reopening in Arizona have been delayed as a response to a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.

State residents who receive health insurance coverage under HIP (Healthy Indiana Plan) will get to use up to $1,000 from their HIP POWER accounts to make insurance-related payments for up to a year when they get back to the workforce.