Jay Wolz
BusinessMarch 16
The future of Cape Girardeau’s hotel industryCape Girardeau will be one of the best places on Earth to experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, but any out-of-towners who haven’t booked a hotel room for the event by now are finding themselves in the dark already. “They can forget it,” according to Brend...
BusinessJanuary 9
David B. Knight: Ole Hickory Pit founder’s story to success and Barbecue Hall of FameThere was once a saying that the sun never set on the British Empire. Today it can also be said the fire never goes out in an Ole Hickory Pit smoker. At any given moment there are hundreds — even thousands — of Ole Hickory Pit barbecues in use on six of the world’s...
BusinessJuly 3, 2023
The Kohlfeld legacy: Family looks back at more that half-century of businessOne customer at a time. That's the way Leo Kohlfeld built the foundation for a family-owned company that has grown to be one of the largest and most successful beverage distributorships in the Midwest. Kohlfeld died in 2010, but March 31 of this year, he was posthu...
BusinessDecember 29, 2022
Seaman vaults to new heights in payment ProcessingMichael Seaman had no intention of becoming an entrepreneur. “That wasn’t in the plan,” he said in a recent interview for B Magazine. “I don’t really like the word ‘entrepreneur’ anyway.” But like it or not, Seaman found entrepreneurial success in 2018 when he and ...
BusinessNovember 5, 2022
How government, business are looking at cybersecurity in changing tech landscapeWhen it comes to cyberattacks, computer experts say there are two types of businesses — those that have been attacked and have dealt with it and those that don’t yet realize they’ve been attacked.
BusinessAugust 31, 2022
‘Adult use’ marijuana vote could have huge impact on ChaffeeRarely, if ever, has there been a statewide election in Missouri that has the potential to profoundly impact a specific business sector, especially one that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. But it will happen in November when voters are asked to de...
BusinessNovember 11, 2021
Area leaders praise outgoing Cape Chamber president John MehnerJohn Mehner thinks he was around 6 or 7 years old when he saw an episode of The Andy Griffith Show featuring “Freddy Fleet and his Band with a Beat” performing at the Mayberry Chamber of Commerce’s annual dance. “That’s the first time I ever remember hearing the ph...
BusinessOctober 4, 2021
Layton & Southard law firm moves to new officesThe Cape Girardeau law firm of Layton & Southard LLC last week moved its offices to 2845 Professional Court. The firm was previously on the third floor of the Banterra Bank building at 1650 N. Kingshighway. The law firm's telephone number and email addresses are un...BusinessOctober 4, 2021
Region's jobless rates continue to fallUnemployment rates throughout Southeast Missouri decreased significantly in July and August, the most recent months for which county-by-county jobless data is available through the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. The declining unemployment ra...BusinessOctober 4, 2021
Ritter Real Estate buys Dirnberger Insurance building, which both firms will occupyRitter Real Estate has purchased an office building at 2905 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson and plans to open a satellite real estate office there by early November. Purchase of the three-suite building was finalized Thursday. Jared Ritter, the real estate firm's owner...Advertisement
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