Harley dealer rides out ominous beginning, growing pains Most Americans remember exactly what they were doing when the news of the Sept. 11 destruction of New York’s Twin Towers stunned the country. Steve Tuchschmidt was sitting in the Milwaukee, Wis., corporate headquarters of Harley-Davidson, preparing to sign the paperwork to seal a business deal he’d […]
If you can brave the hordes of shoppers at the mall each holiday season, you have nothing to fear about buying Christmas gifts online. Diana Ratliff says shopping on the Internet can be as easy and safe as making a purchase at a local department store. Better yet, the 51-year-old Columbia entrepreneur says, well-informed online
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Jeff and Jade Hockman, partners in Hockman’s ATA Black Belt Academy, have the kind of ying and yang relationship that helps businesses make wise decisions when it comes to taking risks. The brothers from Centralia opened their first martial arts studio in south Columbia in 1994 and later moved the operation to the West Broadway
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During his 12 years as a private investigator, Ron Rugen has learned that husbands and wives are usually right to suspect infidelity if they feel strongly enough about it to dial his number. “More often than not, if someone calls me and they think their spouse is cheating on them, they probably are,” Rugen said.
Internship, father-in-law help guide financial services exec on fast track to success Jeremy Patty was studying computer science at the University of Missouri when he began craving a career that dealt more with people and less with machines. So with the support a mentor, Patty applied for the college internship program at Northwestern Mutual Financial
In business less than two years, True Media, a full-service media placement company, is expanding facilities to keep pace with its growing client base. In addition to adding office space at its current downtown Columbia location, True Media soon will add a location in Canada to offer Canadian customers services similar to those provided in
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PhoneSmart answers call of busy self-storage companies A problem many Americans face is that they have too much stuff. Providing a place to stash all that stuff drives an $18 billion-a-year self-storage industry eager to fill its two billion square feet of rentable space. Tron Jordheim’s job is to help self-storage business owners fill that
