THIS POST UPDATED ON NOV 26, 2013 – SEE “SECOND SECTION” FOR INFO ADDED Three articles about “Charrette” from years past: Investment Firm to Buy Charrette Sale of architectural supply company to close July 31

 July 23, 1997 — Charrette, which opened 33 years ago as a small Cambridge store for architects and grew into an…

UPDATE:  IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO SP USA VENDORS! If you have any interest, at all, in getting paid some of what your company is owed, you need to move very, very quickly to put into motion an orderly process for the liquidation of SP USA’s assets (including the collection of its accounts receivable) and the distribution…

Now up on the Boston Business Journal on-line edition: Nov 12, 2013, 1:55pm EST Service Point USA shuts down, leaving customers and employees out in the cold Web Editor-Galen Moore Boston Business Journal Service Point USA shut down operations abruptly on Friday, leaving employees with a long weekend and customers calling to find out the…

As you all must know, Typhoon Haiyan, the largest typhoon (or hurricane) to ever make landfall, devastated The Philippines. Disaster and, now, total chaos. Hundreds of thousands of people are without water, food, medical supplies or medical help. PLEASE HELP! We encourage donations to “Doctors Without Borders”. “Typhoon Haiyan: MSF Rushing Personnel, Supplies to Respond…

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I suggest that you read the “blog publisher’s comments” section, which appears at the end of this post, before you read the top sections in this post. As previously reported in a different post on this blog, this (following) comment was made by a person, who, until Friday last week, worked for SP USA: “I…

This inquiry was received by e-mail this afternoon from someone whose company was a vendor to Service Point USA “Hey Joel, hope all is well with you. I was curious about the ownership of service point and how they were planning to handle their debt?” 0 0 1 41 237 Proactive Management 1 1 277…

UPDATE at 8:45 pm noon on Weds, Nov 13th: Comments from another source, this evening: Slightly edited by Blog Publisher “Hello Joel, I worked for Service Point USA before they closed the door on us Friday. Here is some info that I found out when I was just doing some digging myself.  Kevin handled closing the doors by…

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Given Service Point’s decision to shut down its SP USA operation, one can only wonder, at this point, what’s going with the rest of Service Point.  This morning, I took the time to visit SP’s international web-site and, using links posted there, visited the web-sites of SP’s other “divisions”. From Service Point Solutions’ web-site located…