Four area small business are among 18 in the state to be featured Jan. 26 at a business showcase event for members of the Missouri General Assembly.
Springfield-based Taylor Martin Holdings LLC, Strafford-based Greenwood Engineering & Manufacturing, and Joplin-based companies The Run Around LLC and Trogo LLC will be featured at the event.
It is sponsored by the Missouri Small Business and Technology Development Centers and the Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, two business networks developed by the University of Missouri Extension's Business Development Program, according to a news release.
The 18 featured companies are clients of the
Missouri Small Business and Technology Development Centers, which provides counseling services and training seminars, and the
Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, which helps small, disadvantaged and women-owned firms obtain local, state and federal contracts.
The showcase also will feature:
- St. Louis-based BAM Contracting;
- Jefferson City-based BK Bakery;
- Chilhowee-based Chilhowee Grocery;
- Columbia-based Comparative Clinical Pathology;
- Columbia-based Energy Americas;
- St. James-based Forest City Footwear;
- Columbia-based Galactic Fun Zone;
- Kansas City-based GreenAbility Magazine;
- Monroe City-based Indian Creek Winery;
- Cape Girardeau-based Infinity Recycling Solutions LLC;
- Florissant-based JL Brown Contracting Services;
- Imperial-based MidAmerica Solar;
- St. Peters-based RespondRight; and
- Kansas City-based Ripple Glass.
The event will highlight the achievements of the 18 companies with the intention of showing the value of small businesses, the release said.
"This showcase provides a venue to demonstrate the importance of Missouri's small businesses to the economic vitality of the state," Max Summers, interim director of the University of Missouri Extension's Business Development Program, said in the release.[[In-content Ad]]
