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Hatching Time: Poultry Retailer Opens New DE Distribution Center

July 30, 2025

In 2018, Hatching Time founders and co-CEOs Yağız Aksu and Ryan Flanagan saw a need for clean, sanitary products in the poultry industry. Based out of Newark, DE, Hatching Time is an e-commerce business focusing on providing technologically-advanced poultry raising equipment.

Poultry equipment retailer Hatching Time has found a place to roost: a 27,000 square foot distribution center and showroom in the Boulden Interchange Park.

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Prepare for Profits – 2025, Part 2. 8 Ways to Fight the Profit Pinch

December 30, 2024

By Barbara Nuss, CPA
Founder, Profit Soup

In our recent blog, Prepare for Profits – 2025, Part 1: Your Cost Structure May Never Be the Same, I shared my thoughts about how policy and economic changes might impact cost structures in 2025. I stressed the importance of monitoring your 5-Line P&L. This “Part 2” continuation lists 8 things you should do today to help fight the profit pinch in 2025.

1. Accelerate Equipment Purchases

If you have the financial capacity to act early on purchases you would make in 2025 anyway, you might consider stepping up now.

2. Forecast Your Cash Flow

Talk to your accountant about forecasting cash flow under multiple scenarios so you can plan to have adequate cash reserves or credit lines, Establish a cadence for comparing actual results to budgets by the 15th of each month.

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Veteran-Owned Wepa Lands $1M Contract with Port of San Diego

November 11, 2024

Wepa Commercial Cleaning, a veteran-owned and -operated janitorial and disinfecting company, is celebrating a major milestone. The San Diego-based business has secured a $1 million one-year contract with the Port of San Diego.

Wepa was founded by Francisco Rivera, a U.S. military veteran, who has built the company into a top-rated business with coverage in major publications. Wepa provides a full range of commercial cleaning and disinfecting services, employing skilled workers and utilizing advanced procedures to ensure healthy environments for organizations’ employees, customers, and guests.

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