Business in Yuma

- Let's go digital! (photos)
- Wednesday's all-day Go Digital Yuma featured a variety of speakers and workshops to help businesses take their names and products to the next level through digital technology and a social media presence.... Full story

- Yuma second in nation for mobile homes
- BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis
- Yuma is well-supplied with manufactured homes.
According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, 29 percent of housing units in the Yuma metro area are mobile homes. That’s plentiful enough for second in the nation, not too far behind Farmington, N.M.... Full story

- New building at Yuma Honda latest in 'car row' construction
- BY CHRIS McDANIEL - @YS_CMCDANIEL
- Despite the poor economy, business is booming for the “car row” dealerships east of the Big Curve along 32nd Street.Over the past two years, several dealerships have built new showrooms and service centers to accommodate the increase in c... Full story

- Go Digital Yuma seminar coming Wednesday
- BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis
- Attendees at next week's Go Digital Yuma seminar can get their digital marketing questions answered by a diverse bunch of local and regional business leaders — experts who have their fingers on the pulse of social media, websites, smartphones, ... Full story
- BBB provides tips to build an e-commerce website
- By Better Business Bureau
- Building a business can be profitable and rewarding but also demanding. Reaching and retaining customers can present ongoing challenges to both new and established businesses.While brick-and-mortar storefronts meet the marketplace needs of many busin... Full story
- Business Glance 5-18-13
- BY JOYCE LOBECK @YSJoyceLobeck
- Chamber mixerThe Yuma County Chamber of Commerce monthly mixer will be 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday at InnSuites, 1450 S. Castle Dome Ave. Cost is $5 at the door.For more info, call the chamber at 782-2567.Business women to meetThe Yuma chapter of American ... Full story
- Agriculture Glance 5-19-13
- Seed Dynamics to host symposiumSeed Dynamics Inc. will host an educational symposium Thursday at the Pivot Point Conference Center on vegetable seed science and technology for seed dealers, producers and growers.Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the ... Full story
- Comings and Goings: Firehouse Subs
- BY JOYCE LOBECK @YSJoyceLobeck
- Firehouse Subs is coming to Yuma with plans to open a restaurant at 1630 S. Pacific Ave. in Yuma Plaza Shops A. The company anticipates opening in early fall.The sandwich shop was founded in 1994 in Jacksonville, Fla., by brothers Chris Sorensen and ... Full story

- Bemoaning bedbugs: Residents speak out on critters
- BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis
- One man wakes in the dead of night, when the bugs are most active, to round them up by hand. Another spends hours on the phone every week, calling inspectors and lawyers and regulators and advocates. And yet another sprays insecticide directly onto h... Full story
- Sups to take public comment on downtown building purchase
- BY HILLARY DAVIS @YSHillaryDavis
- The Yuma County Board of Supervisors will take public comment Monday on the county's anticipated purchase of a downtown building.The county is gearing up to take out a $7.5 million loan to purchase and renovate the currently vacant 50,000-square foot... Full story