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Columbia Business Times Archive

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People are talking… Are you part of the conversation?

In previous years, marketers and businesses directed their messages to an audience in the form of a push. An ad was produced, the consumer listened, and if the...

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New Business Update: Downtown

Olive Café and Grocery 21 N. Providence Rd. Café Berlin has opened at its new location at 10th and Park streets, and Olive Café and Grocery took its...

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Newsy.com? There’s an app for that

Columbia-based Media Convergence Group’s video news iPhone application for Newsy.com is currently ranked as the sixth most downloaded free news app in Apple’s iTunes App Store. Downloads of...

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Local bank market shifts

Commerce, Regions and Shelter Financial banks had big gains in the Columbia market this year while Bank of America, Premier and Callaway banks had smaller slices of the...

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Grocery Glut

The expansion of supermarkets in Columbia has been exceeding the population growth for years now, and Hy-Vee is about to give local shoppers even more options when deciding...
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The Corner Pharmacy: Vaccinations provide “ounce of prevention”

The old adage from Ben Franklin, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” might be the one piece of advice small-business owners should take seriously...

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Managing the Blues

At the Roots N’ Blues N’ BBQ Festival last Saturday afternoon, three bands were playing, thousands of people were streaming downtown and hundreds of volunteers, staff and security...
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KFRU’s Lile most popular in morning news talk

Every weekday morning, commercial radio station hosts David Lile and Tom Bradley compete with the public station KBIA for a share of the news-talk listeners in the Columbia...

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Flying High

What a difference a year has made in the life of Columbia Regional Airport....
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Airport bustling

As Kevin Pentico gathered his luggage at Columbia Regional Airport, he had just one complaint about his Delta flight from Memphis on the 34-seat turboprop plane. “It’s so...