US Business
Omicron Takes a Toll on Businesses, From Airports to Supermarkets
Surging Covid-19 infections have prompted flight cancellations, store closures and increased overtime work.
Year: 2022
US Business
Can Paper Replace Plastic? A Packaging Giant Is Betting It Can
Environmental-driven shift is complicated by frequent higher cost of cardboard, and by carbon-footprint calculus. Kalamazoo paper factory is a big test of whether the flood of ESG capital can transform supply chains.
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FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams Resigns
The Trump administration holdover had fought publicly with Democrats who now make up a majority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board over control of the agency’s policy agenda.
US Business
How This Pandemic Has Left Us Less Prepared for the Next One
China put up barriers to studying the origins of Covid-19, leading to a conflict that means less scientific collaboration and more mistrust among global powers that must work together to head off the next disaster.
Chamber Updates
Monthly Chamber Membership Renewals
Thank you for renewing! And thank you to our presenting sponsor, Show Me the Ozarks. 32nd Street Dental 2019 Active Lifestyle Events, Inc. 2012 aliceCBD 2020 American Red Cross of Southern Missouri 2000 Candy House Gourmet 2016 […]
Chamber Updates
December 2021 Ribbon Cuttings
Congratulations to all our members who recently celebrated their accomplishments with ribbon cuttings! LovinGrace Melissa Thomas, Interim Director 1408 Euclid Avenue Celebrating a New Building Thank you to our presenting sponsor Southwest Missouri Bank. Thank […]
Chamber Updates
Welcome New Members
The Chamber’s Board of Directors and staff are pleased to welcome our newest Chamber Members. Please keep these and all Members in mind when looking for goods and services. Nabholz Construction Corporation Construction/Construction Management 2223 […]
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Pricey Chicken Puts Thighs on Restaurant Menus
Dark-meat items are traditionally less popular, but restaurants are promoting them as short supplies have driven up the price of breasts and wings.
US Business
Headaches and Backlogs Loom as Tax Filing Season Nears Again
The mid-April deadline is returning as the Internal Revenue Service tries to whittle down piles of paperwork.
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U.S. Companies Are Thriving Despite, or Because of, Covid-19
Profit growth is strong. Most companies’ sales are higher than they were before Covid-19—often well above. The liquidity crunch many feared in 2020 never materialized.