Business notebook: PayPal changes pact that allowed robocalls

Online payment service company PayPal this week announced plans to change a section of a user agreement that could have left many people subject to marketing robocalls.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, New York's attorney general and the Federal Communications Commission wrote letters to the company requesting a change in the company's user agreement because of the potential for violating laws covering consumer do-not-call lists.

In a response letter to Koster, PayPal said it was changing user agreement terms to clarify how users will be contacted and how users can choose preferred methods of contact.

The company, according to a news release from Koster's office, "will not 'use autodialed or prerecorded calls or texts to contact our customers for marketing purposes without their prior express written consent'" and will not require customers to allow contact for surveys and questionnaires.

Sewer plant contractor a finalist for award

Guarantee Electrical Co., a St. Louis-based electrical contractor, is among finalists in the Associated General Contractors of Missouri's 2015 Construction Keystone Award contest for technologies the company used in construction of Cape Girardeau's wastewater treatment plant.

The plant features technologies including sequence batch reactors, bubble diffuser technologies and two-channel Microwave/Ultraviolet Disinfection Systems, which allows the plant to handle up to 50 million gallons of wastewater per day, up from 11 million gallons per day, according to a news release from the company.

The company is competing in the Keystone Awards' category for specialty contractor/subcontractor of building construction costing $5 million or more.

Projects in the contest, according to a news release from Associated General Contractors, "represent the highest level of professionalism, craftsmanship and quality in construction by Missouri's general and specialty contractors."

Finalists were announced last week, and a panel of judges will choose winners in each of 12 contest categories. Winners will be announced in November at a banquet in St. Louis.

Buchheit Logistics buys PolyOne facility

Buchheit Logistics, a Scott City transportation and warehousing company, last week announced the purchase of the former facility of PolyOne at 4753 Nash Road in Cape Girardeau.

The 54,000-square-foot facility will enhance the company's capabilities and expand its warehousing footprint, according to a news release from Buchheit Logistics.

The company now has more than 500,000 square feet of warehouse space in Southeast Missouri and 475,000 square feet in eastern Pennsylvania. The company, founded in 1934, also has a large fleet of tractor-trailers. Warehousing services of the company include storage, reverse logistics, repackaging, labeling, consolidation and more, the release stated.

Tom Kelsey, a commercial broker at Lorimont Place, assisted with the transaction.

PolyOne, a manufacturing company, scaled back local operations in 2014, closing the Nash Road facility.

Robinson Construction achieves awards

Robinson Construction Co. in Perryville, Missouri, has received two awards from Nucor Building Systems, a manufacturer of custom-engineered metal building systems.

Presented to Robinson Construction were the 2014 Million Dollar Club award, given for reaching steel building shipments of greater than $1 million for the calendar year, and a 2014 Five Million Dollars Cumulative Sales Performance award.

Robinson Construction is an Authorized Nucor Builder, according to a news release, and built Nucor metal buildings during multiple projects in 2014 in Missouri and Kentucky, including several industrial process and manufacturing facilities, a storage warehouse, two wastewater treatment facility buildings and a pump house.

Southeast unit named after cardiologist

The Cardiac Progressive Care unit at Southeast Hospital has been named after Dr. Allen L. Spitler, the hospital announced recently.

The Allen L. Spitler, M.D., Heart Center officially was named in a June 24 ceremony, according to a news release.

Hospital executives in the release called Spitler, a cardiologist at Cardiovascular Consultants in Cape Girardeau, "a pioneer at Southeast Hospital."

Spitleropened the first catheterization laboratory at the hospital using a small space in radiology and a bed used for gastrointestinal procedures, the release stated. He also supported the introduction of heart surgery to the region in 1984.

Alliance Bank recognized as 'healthy bank'

Cape Girardeau-based Alliance Bank recently was included on DepositAccounts' Top 200 Healthiest Banks in America 2015 list.

DepositAccounts.com covers topics related to depository banking products and evaluates and ranks banks on financial health. Alliance Bank was given an "A+" in Texas Ratio, an indicator of available capital of a bank compared to the value of at-risk loans; the Texas Ratio trend; deposit growth; and capitalization level.

Cord Polen is the president and CEO of Alliance Bank. The bank announced plans to acquire Capaha Bank in late 2014.

Grandma Bea's closing in Perryville

Grandma Bea's, a retail store in Perryville, Missouri, featuring homemade and all-natural products, will close after July 10.

Debbie Hadler Statler, the store's owner, posted a message last week on social media announcing plans to close.

The store opened in 2013 at 1015 S. Perryville Blvd., according to Southeast Missourian archives.

The store will offer discounted merchandise until closing and continue to offer its product line, called Grandma Bea's Natural Products, through delivery and online. The products also will remain available at other area retailers, including Buchheit's stores, and may be available in other retail locations in the future, Hadler Statler wrote in the post.

Law office moves in Jackson

Attorney Mary Eftink Boner moved her office to 608 W. Main St. in Jackson.

Eftink Boner has practiced law in the area for 25 years. Her areas of practice include representing business organizations; municipal law; eminent domain; estate planning and probate; family law; and real estate.

The move was expected to be effective June 29.

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