Grants for growing: It takes more than compost to turn a former parking lot into…
Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture
Parker Building
Preservation Award
*China Connection Part III*As Missouri’s fourth largest export market, China is growing increasingly attractive to mid-Missouri companies. And when doing business in China, guanxi is the word to know.
Russ Potterield, CEO of Battenfeld Technologies, acknowledged that his move to southern China with his wife and three young sons to establish a satellite office is quite unconventional.
The Chinese seem to ind their presence even more odd and often ask if they can take a picture of the unusually tall couple (both are more than 6 feet tall) as they walk around Shenzhen with their blond 2-year-old twins and 7-year-old son.
Standing with his three children in the parking lot of his Domino’s Pizza outlet on South Ninth Street, Greg Neichter seemed oblivious to the scorching afternoon sun that caused sweat to pour down his face and his eyes to squint.
The traffic at the intersection of the MU campus and downtown made it hard to hear, so Neichter just talked rapid-fire at the top of his lungs.
This, after all, is a subject he’s passionate about — pizza, or more specifically, how the business has changed since he opened a Domino’s in the tiny building behind him on Aug. 18, 1980.
Columbia’s incentives for saving energy are catching on with consumers, but the effort is doing more than cutting electric bills. It’s also created jobs and pumped millions of dollars into the local economy.
Dan Shifley, whose company sells commercial heating, ventilation and air conditioning products, hit upon the…
At Sterling Dental Care, dentist Colin A. Malaker is doing more than helping patients keep their pearly whites right and bright. He’s also pioneering the use of wind turbines in Columbia.
My father always said a well is just a hole in the ground, but the…
