BUSINESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED

The customers who shop in Cape Girardeau and what they mean to local businessmen will be among topics to be discussed during a business conference to be held April 7 at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus.

Daryl Hobbs, director of the University of Missouri Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis, will address these matters when he speaks on "The Changing Consumer Profile in the Cape Marketing Area" during the conference.

Hobbs will be the lead-off speaker for the "Business Survival For the '90s" conference being sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce's University Relations Committee and the Southeast Missouri State University College of Business Administration.

The conference will conclude with a luncheon with Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan as keynote speaker.

In between, at 9:45 a.m., C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, will discuss merchandising in the 1990s.

Cost of the seminar is $40 per person. Registration will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Additional information is available by contacting the Chamber of Commerce, 335-3312.