February 2008

Customer Service: Sustainability suggests it’s time for a makeover

It’s time for a makeover. It may be your company’s logo, Web site or entire campaign. It even might include a makeover of the tried and true—and perhaps historically the driest, stuffiest of all company documents: the annual report. I realize not everybody is obliged to produce one of these profit-and-loss behemoths for public consumption.

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Centennial Investors helps fund Nasopure expansion

BeWell Health, LLC, a local company that makes the Nasopure nasal washing device, has received funding for an expansion from “angel investors” within the Centennial Investors organization and from two physicians. Nasopure’s founder, Dr. Hana Solomon, said members of Centennial Investors agreed to provide $152,384 in funding and other investors are providing $169,000. Sales of

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University gets big endowment fund yield, but downturn on horizon

The University of Missouri System’s endowment had an 18 percent rate of return in fiscal 2007 and produced a $38.9 payout, up $4.2 million from the previous year, according to Nikki Krawitz, the system’s vice president of finance and administration. More than half of the annual endowment payout goes to the Columbia campus. The 18

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