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Business File: Free seminar focuses on working for government

Editor’s note: An item has been removed from this story. The First Impressions of Routt County business outreach breakfast, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed.

The Colorado Procure­ment Technical Assistance Center hosts a free seminar about how to do business with the government from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday in Bogue Hall at the Colorado Mountain College Alpine Campus. Topics will include registering for bid opportunities, completing registrations, avoiding pitfalls and marketing to government agencies.

The Colorado Procure­ment Technical Assistance Center is one of 94 in the U.S., Guam and Puerto Rico that provide government procurement assistance to businesses for free. The Colorado PTAC equips businesses statewide with resources that help them compete for federal, state, county and municipal procurement opportunities.



To register, contact Randy Rudasics at 970-870-4491 or rrudasics@colorado mtn.edu.

Lunch Thursday focuses on intellectual property

A Success Steps Lunch­eon about intellectual property and how to protect it is at 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Steamboat Smokehouse. SCORE presents the event, and James Moylan, a local business and commercial litigation attorney, will lead the seminar.



The $15 fee includes lunch. For information or to register, call Randy at 970-879-4491.

Consumers ditch credit cards as borrowing slips

The Denver Post

Washington

Consumer borrowing fell in June for a fifth straight month as households keep cutting back on credit card use.

Borrowing dropped at an annual rate of $1.3 billion in June, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. That marked the 16th drop in overall credit in the past 17 months.

The $1.3 billion June drop in borrowing was much smaller than the $5 billion decline that economists had expected. The government also revised the May decline to show a smaller drop of $5.3 billion rather than the initial $9.2 billion decrease.

Blockbuster might be approaching bankruptcy

The Denver Post

Denver

Blockbuster probably will receive a one-month reprieve from creditors this week so the video-rental chain can prepare for a possible bankruptcy filing in September, three people with knowledge of the matter said. Lenders are pushing for a prepackaged bankruptcy in exchange for the 30-day extension on debt repayment, said the people, who declined to be identified because the negotiations are private.


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