The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry will introduce a new initiative, Missouri 2030: An Agenda to Lead, on Thursday in Cape Girardeau during the first of a series of meetings to be held throughout the state. The initiative consists of a 15-year plan designed to improve Missouri's competitiveness, according to a release.
Dan Mehan, president of the state chamber, and Ted Abernathy, head of the initiative, will present information from a recent survey of more than 1,000 employers in the state and share comparative economic data at the meetings, according to a release. Businesses in attendance also will be asked for opinions of the plan.Read more: Southeast Missourian
Zionsville resident named Indiana chamber chairman
His resume is long, impressive and filled with all the business experience anyone needs, and he was recently elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce for 2015.But Tom Easterday is more proud of his involvement in the Special Olympics.
Easterday and his wife Deb have been coaching for the Special Olympics in Boone County for years and despite his newly elected status, he would rather be coaching than anything.
“My wife and I have coached everything from basketball to softball to track and field for Special Olympics in Boone County,” Easterday said. “It can be challenging but it truly is rewarding.”
The executive vice president, secretary and chief legal officer of Subaru of Indiana Automotive was elected to his chairman position during the Indiana Chamber’s Fall Board of Directors meeting held in Indianapolis Nov. 6. Read more: Current in Zionsville
Best Chamber practices: Shop Huron & WIN $25,000 Giveaway
This Christmas, the Huron Chamber &Visitors Bureau would like to reward residents for shopping local! For every $25 you spend on goods and services at Huron businesses, you will be entered to win up to $25,000! Shop Huron to help you, your neighbor and our community! More details here: Huron Chamber
Follow-up article: The Huron Chamber & Visitors Bureau is excited to announce that the Shop Huron & Win campaign is keeping its momentum as the Christmas holiday nears! The second weekly drawing was held Wednesday at Walkers Flower Shop with shop owner Ann Edleman, left, and store associate Elisha Prien, pictured. The second winner of the $100 drawing is Lori Messegee of Huron, who submitted a receipt from Pro Build. With two weeks into the promotion, more than $220,000 worth of receipts have been submitted.Read more: The Plainsman
Fort
Smith Regional Chamber event: Economists Predict Steady Growth Next Year
Barring a slow first quarter of 2014
due to harsh weather, the nation has seen continual increases in gross domestic
product and a leading economist for the state foresees steady growth next year.
Kathy Deck, director of the Center
for Business and Economic Research in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at
the University of Arkansas, told the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce on
Friday that the good news comes with some “economic realities.”
“If we look at what the consensus
forecast is from the National Association for Business Economics, we continue
to expect steady growth into the future,” Deck said.
At this point in the expansion since
the Great Recession, she added, the normal business cycle creates some anxiety
of returns to decreased output. People have feared another recession
considering the length of the recovery, which has taken longer than others.
Read more at: Times
Record
As they got ready for an upcoming meeting, the staff at the Worthington Area Chamber of Commerce recently realized the organization had reached a notable milestone.
“As we were preparing for the annual planning session of the board of directors, I asked the staff to do a chart of the membership analysis over the last five years,” explained Chamber Executive Director Darlene Macklin. “It showed that we were at the highest number of members we have ever had here — 379 — at least in my career here at the Chamber.”
The numbers have increased significantly just in the last four years, Macklin noted.
“In 2010, we were at 300 members,” she said. “Back in 2012, it shows 309 members. In 2013, we were at 350. And we just picked up another member yesterday, so it’s actually 380. Isn’t that incredible?” Read more: Daily Globe
Mason City Chamber presentation: Talent Management for members
Talent management, which grows increasingly important in businesses of all sorts and sizes, was the focus of a fall workshop for members of the Mason City Area Chamber of Commerce.
The presenter, JoAnn Corley, was founder of The Human Sphere, a talent management consultancy based in Atlanta.
When Corley asked representatives of area businesses to describe talent management, words like coaching, assessing, grooming, training, hiring and succession planning were called out for her to list on a white board for all to see. Read more: Globe Gazette.com
Renewable energy advocates hold up the German experience as an example of successful energy policy making with some going so far as to call it a model for Wisconsin. Germany's energy transformation or "Energiewende" calls for a nuclear-free and carbon-reduced economy through the vast deployment of renewable technologies but its results thus far have been higher prices, greater carbon intensity and a less reliable electric delivery network.
As an organization focused on maintaining reliable and affordable power in Wisconsin, we view Germany as providing valuable lessons on missteps that the state of Wisconsin should avoid. Indeed, policymakers in Germany now are reversing course on the large cost of renewable subsidies and the impact of those subsidies on residential and industrial electric rates and CO2 emissions. Read more:
The Star
Chamber assistance: Historic Danville (Kentucky) manor to become events venue
When Brittney Mills Adams said "I do" in October, she was not only saying yes to becoming Mrs. Nick Adams, she was also agreeing to take on a whole different sort of adventure as well.
Adams and her engineer husband were married Oct. 11 at the family's 19th century Warrenwood Manor.
The Gothic Revival manor, located on U.S. 127 just south of the Danville bypass, was purchased by her parents, Tom and Alane Mills, in 2007.
After discussions with her parents, the 29-year-old and her husband became the proud owners of the manor, as well as the 100 acres of prime farmland surrounding the house, after her parents deeded the property to the young couple.
"My parents sat us down and said, 'Do you want to get a J-O-B, or you're young, do you want to consider taking a risk,'" said Adams. "We quickly chose the latter, especially after going around looking for wedding venues and then realizing we have the perfect place right here at Warrenwood Manor."...
Adams said local officials have been helpful in advising them in their preparations, including Jody Lassiter, president and CEO of Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership, who helped hustle her through the city's red tape with the Chamber of Commerce's new JumpStart program. Read more: Kentucky.com
Worthington, Minnesota Chamber hits membership milestone
As they got ready for an upcoming meeting, the staff at the Worthington Area Chamber of Commerce recently realized the organization had reached a notable milestone.
“As we were preparing for the annual planning session of the board of directors, I asked the staff to do a chart of the membership analysis over the last five years,” explained Chamber Executive Director Darlene Macklin. “It showed that we were at the highest number of members we have ever had here — 379 — at least in my career here at the Chamber.”
The numbers have increased significantly just in the last four years, Macklin noted.
“In 2010, we were at 300 members,” she said. “Back in 2012, it shows 309 members. In 2013, we were at 350. And we just picked up another member yesterday, so it’s actually 380. Isn’t that incredible?” Read more: Daily Globe
Mason City Chamber presentation: Talent Management for members
Talent management, which grows increasingly important in businesses of all sorts and sizes, was the focus of a fall workshop for members of the Mason City Area Chamber of Commerce.
The presenter, JoAnn Corley, was founder of The Human Sphere, a talent management consultancy based in Atlanta.
When Corley asked representatives of area businesses to describe talent management, words like coaching, assessing, grooming, training, hiring and succession planning were called out for her to list on a white board for all to see. Read more: Globe Gazette.com
Chamber issue: Wisconsin must avoid energy mistakes of Germany
Renewable energy advocates hold up the German experience as an example of successful energy policy making with some going so far as to call it a model for Wisconsin. Germany's energy transformation or "Energiewende" calls for a nuclear-free and carbon-reduced economy through the vast deployment of renewable technologies but its results thus far have been higher prices, greater carbon intensity and a less reliable electric delivery network.
As an organization focused on maintaining reliable and affordable power in Wisconsin, we view Germany as providing valuable lessons on missteps that the state of Wisconsin should avoid. Indeed, policymakers in Germany now are reversing course on the large cost of renewable subsidies and the impact of those subsidies on residential and industrial electric rates and CO2 emissions. Read more:
The Star
Chamber assistance: Historic Danville (Kentucky) manor to become events venue
When Brittney Mills Adams said "I do" in October, she was not only saying yes to becoming Mrs. Nick Adams, she was also agreeing to take on a whole different sort of adventure as well.
Adams and her engineer husband were married Oct. 11 at the family's 19th century Warrenwood Manor.
The Gothic Revival manor, located on U.S. 127 just south of the Danville bypass, was purchased by her parents, Tom and Alane Mills, in 2007.
After discussions with her parents, the 29-year-old and her husband became the proud owners of the manor, as well as the 100 acres of prime farmland surrounding the house, after her parents deeded the property to the young couple.
"My parents sat us down and said, 'Do you want to get a J-O-B, or you're young, do you want to consider taking a risk,'" said Adams. "We quickly chose the latter, especially after going around looking for wedding venues and then realizing we have the perfect place right here at Warrenwood Manor."...
Adams said local officials have been helpful in advising them in their preparations, including Jody Lassiter, president and CEO of Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership, who helped hustle her through the city's red tape with the Chamber of Commerce's new JumpStart program. Read more: Kentucky.com
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