Business News and Information

Thursday was the vernal, or Spring, equinox. Refreshingly, the first day of Spring is one of the few days on which businesses do not attempt to capitalize.

Rasmussen Reports found Spring ranked as our nations second favorite holiday in a 2007 survey.A March 17 post from Birmingham Business Journal reported the National Retail Federal projected consumers would spend “$14.4 billion on food, apparel, gifts, flowers, decorations and candy to celebrate Easter this year”

Lastly, WNBC.com posted a story with the headline “Spring Arrives Amid Global Warming Concerns” and noted Spring has arrived approximately 8 hours earlier each year since 1982.