Boone County Presiding Commissioner Ed Robb was an honorable gentleman who passed away less than a year after taking office and just when he was settling in on a challenge Boone County needs to accomplish. Let’s discard partisan bickering and honor the late Robb and his fellow commissioners by setting in motion another run at […]
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U.S. Cellular director of sales, Missouri market Age: 39 Years here: Four Originally from: Wytheville, Va. Job description I am responsible for all sales, customer service and agent relations activities in the Missouri market. I create and execute market-level strategies that support the organization’s objectives. My staff and I accomplish this by creating and fostering an
Gary Drewing has been leading Joe Machens dealerships since 1983. Next spring, Joe Machens will build three new facilities and re-introduce Volkswagen to Columbia.
An alternative business model is taking root as citizens and farmers invest in one another through CSA farming.
Think you have what it takes to tackle a 20-inch pizza or 16 scoops of ice cream? Food challenges are a new form of creative marketing.
There were plenty of cities that the Isely family could have chosen for its first Natural Grocers store in Missouri. Columbia, though, quickly made its way to the top of the list. With nearly 50 organic grocery stores now open in the Southeast and Midwest, the Isely knows what to look for in choosing a
Say goodbye to endless Internet searches in the central Missouri area. Events, restaurants, forums and more can now be found in one convenient location thanks to Web developers Mark Beall and Ben Seidel. Beall and Seidel launched their website, CentralMO.com, in August 2009. “We had the idea to create CentralMo.com because we found there was
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At Westminster College’s sixth annual symposium on global technology, students and faculty of Westminster and Beijing union university discover important cultural differences.
We live in a totally different age today. Significant changes appear to be happening not by the day but by the second. Technological changes, political changes, social changes, economic changes, and not all are seen as particularly good changes. Change happens so fast that no one person can keep up with it. Change can leave
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America By Marc Levinson Published by Hill and Wang, September 2011 List price: $27.95 Pages: 384 ISBN-10: 0809095432 ISBN-13: 978-0809095438 For Columbia shoppers who prefer to buy goods from local owners, the seeming omnipresence of Walmart and other megastores owned by national chains presents a daily
