*Business Profile*Get Lost Bookshop owner Meghan Gilliss keeps Columbia reading.
*Customer Service*In business, image is everything — and so is marketing.
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The demand for social services generally increased by double digits this year in Columbia, where the unemployment rate rose as high as 8 percent. Donations to many individual charities decreased, and the city’s overall allocation to social services declined by 1 percent.
There was, however, a saving grace in 2009; contributions to the Heart of Missouri United Way remained steady. (And unemployment has dropped to about 6 percent.)
*Business Profile*Longitudinal Health teaches healthy living to patients and employees.
Dr. Timothy Fete was working as associate chairman at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis when MU offered him the job of directing its Children’s Hospital.
Fete said the “hook” that helped lure him to Columbia was MU’s decision last fall to expand and consolidate all of its pediatric operations — now housed on two floors of University Hospital and in about a dozen other facilities — and move them to Columbia Regional Hospital. It will be one of 50 free-standing children’s hospitals in the country and the only one in mid-Missouri.
*Country Fairgrounds*People, pets and livestock, with monster trucks for good measure
If you were not at Old Hawthorne on Nov 17, you missed an important meeting.…
Maybe this year the company gala event is canceled because of tight budgets, but don’t…
