Karen Crabtree Vice president and general manager, CenturyLink in northern Missouri AGE: 45 JOB DESCRIPTION: I have end-to-end responsibility for developing a localized approach to the market, including product offerings and promotions. I’m responsible for revenue, customer experience, local installation and repair technicians, customer metrics, area retail stores and door-to-door sales, community and public relations […]
Even in a tight job market, some local high school students and recent high school graduates have found interesting summer work. Perhaps the most interesting summer job opportunity available locally is driven by the unfortunate number of disasters that have wracked the southern Midwest this spring. State Farm hired 32 temporary employees this summer to
When entrepreneur Lily Dawson started her jewelry design business in January 2009, she launched a website and sold her handmade bracelets, necklaces and headbands at local boutique Elly’s Couture. Now the 24-year-old Columbia native has shifted gears. She gets most of her customers through her free Facebook page, which she updates almost daily to send
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Sell-by dates on food products might soon expire, thanks to research and development company Emergent Sensor Technologies. Dr. Craig Weilbaecher and Dr. R. Cody Stringer, both University of Missouri doctoral graduates in biochemical engineering, launched a research design and development startup company in March. Emergent Sensor Technologies is an affiliate of the Center for Emerging
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With a $45.1 million federal grant now in hand, Bluebird Network is hiring the first group of workers for a three-year project that will bring high-speed broadband to northern Missouri. The Columbia-based broadband provider was awarded the grant in 2010, and its first dollars arrived in June. The 14 initial positions will grow to a
2609 E. Broadway, Suite 117 | (573) 442-6350 Got a guitar, keyboard or drum set that’s gathering dust in a closet or basement? There’s a new store that’s ready to buy. Music Go Round franchise owner Gary Taylor said Columbia fits the ideal criteria for a store dealing in used musical instruments and equipment: more
Teresa Maledy didn’t start off as president of Commerce Bank. She didn’t even start out in banking. But if she hadn’t negotiated for herself, Maledy might still be working in the cash management division instead of heading up Commerce Bank’s Central Missouri Region as president and CEO, overseeing 150 employees. The turning point came more
Two Columbia-based companies have picked Aug. 15 to launch a broadband wireless network that will compete with both cellular and wired Internet services such as DSL in the residential and consumer markets. In the process, Columbia becomes one of the few markets in the country with two competing operators using a “fourth-generation” wireless technology called
