Chamber Good News: German company will open in St. Joseph, Missouri, hire 50; Kentucky's Only Female Governor to Visit Northern Kentucky Chamber; NIPSCO Official Speaks on Economic Development at Duneland Indiana Chamber Gathering; Chamber partnership: Sioux City is dedicated to become a Home Base Iowa community; Chamber tool: How a new Minnesota state website is helping students make college pay; Chamber issue: Lawrence Kansas Commissioners look to make decision on fiber optic network in November; North Little Rock, Arkansas Chamber of Commerce for Business Expo; VillageProfile.com Chamber Directory or Map; Chamber collaboration in Wisconsin: Waterfalls offer addition to fall color viewing; Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotation: (Leadership)

Chamber Good News: German company will open in St. Joseph, Missouri, hire 50

German company Schütz Container Systems Inc. is establishing a new operation in St. Joseph that eventually will employ about 50 people.
On Wednesday, the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce announced that the German packaging company has bought a shell building and more than 13 acres of land and will invest about $20 million in the operation. Workers at the facility will make packages for the agriculture chemical and food-related industries. Chamber CEO Patt Lilly said the workers are expected to be new hires. Read more: Kansas City Business Journal

Kentucky's Only Female Governor to Visit Northern Kentucky Chamber

The Northern Kentucky International Trade Association will host former Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Collins will speak with local businesses about opportunities to expand their businesses abroad.

Collins, best known for bringing the Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America plant to Georgetown while she was governor, is now concentrating on boosting Kentucky’s exports.
In her role as ambassador-at-large of international trade for the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Collins works with chambers across the Commonwealth to encourage companies to begin or expand exporting efforts and to educate businesses on the local resources available to help make that happen. Read more: River City News

NIPSCO Official Speaks on Economic Development at Duneland Indiana Chamber Gathering

Eager representatives from members of the Duneland Chamber of Commerce, nonprofits and municipality officials listened to some positive information shared about the state of Indiana and the Duneland area itself from Diane Thalmann, the economic development manager at NIPSCO and keynote speaker at Wednesday’s monthly Chamber luncheon at the Hilton Garden Inn in Chesterton.

Maura Durham, president of the Duneland Chamber of Commerce, said the idea to have Thalmann speak at this luncheon came from a conference in Indianapolis last month where the two learned about positive economic trends in the state. Read more: La Porte County Life

Chamber partnership: Sioux City is dedicated to become a Home Base Iowa community

Over the next five years, several hundred thousand military members will transition out of the military. Governor Terry Branstad introduced the "Home Base Iowa" program to help veterans.
The city of Sioux City has jobs to fill, and they want veterans to fill those spots.

The city has partnered with the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce, Siouxland Initiative, and Iowa Workforce Development to attract veterans through the state's "Home Base Iowa" program. Read more: News 4 KTIV

Chamber tool: How a new Minnesota state website is helping students make college pay

Bill Blazar, interim president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, predicts the wage and placement information will be useful to multiple audiences. “It gives the student seeking the training the kind of information they need to make a wise career decision,” he says. “The other thing it does is put some additional pressure on the institutions to change and adapt their curriculum, so that their graduates are going to meet the demands of the private-sector economy.” Read more: MinnPost

Chamber issue: Lawrence Kansas Commissioners look to make decision on fiber optic network in November 

The headline topic at Tuesday night's city commission meeting, Lawrence's fiber optic network.

Lawrence has fiber optic infrastructure that according to city commissioners is under-used. In today's age of technology and need of high speed internet, commissioners said it should be used.

Wicked Fiber originally requested a $1 million loan guarantee to launch a fiber-to-the-home fiber optic pilot project. With the city's financial support they would provide faster internet to Lawrence residents. The request was then cut to $300,000. However, commissioners questioned the request. Read more: 6Lawrence.com


North Little Rock, Arkansas Chamber of Commerce for Business Expo

The North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce invites area businesses and the community to the 2014 Market Arkansas Business Expo. Market Arkansas will take place Thursday, October 2nd from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. This year's theme is "Back to Business." Market Arkansas is in partnership with Arkansas Business, News Radio 102.9 KARN and THV11.
Market Arkansas is a business-to-business trade show and provides an opportunity for businesses to exhibit their products, services and attractions as well as network with other professionals. Market Arkansas is anticipated to have more than 100 exhibitors and over 1,500 visitors. Market Arkansas will also feature business training sessions and product demonstrations throughout the day. THV 11

VillageProfile.com Chamber Directory or Map

Get a free estimate for your chamber on a professional gloss chamber map, chamber app, community profile or membership directory. Call John Dussman of Village Profile at (800)-600-0134 x239 or email jdussman.vp@villageprofilemail.com. If your chamber has 400 members or more, please ask about several multimedia options available to your chamber.

Chamber collaboration in Wisconsin: Waterfalls offer addition to fall color viewing

With fall weather sticking around before the snow flurries stay, people are encouraged to visit waterfalls across Iron County. The idea to promote the 11 waterfalls in the county came from students in the publishing class at the Mercer School. Neil Klemme, the youth development agent at the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office, presented the idea of having the students become more involved in county-based marketing projects.

The students helped to redesigned the Fe logo and also created a brochure, highlighting the waterfalls in Iron County. According to Klemme, many of the students didn't know where many of the local waterfalls were and wanted to create something to not only help travelers, but local people as well.
"I love the way it turned out," Klemme said. "I couldn't believe how well it turned out." Both the Hurley and Mercer chambers of commerce participated in the project, providing ideas to students. Read more: Your Daily Globe

Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotation: (Leadership): 


The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. —Max DePree  

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