Discover Jefferson City - Community Profile & Chamber Directory
Discover Jefferson City and Cole County in our 2017 community profile and Chamber directory.
Discover Jefferson City and Cole County in our 2017 community profile and Chamber directory.
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State Technical College of Missouri<br />
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY<br />
<strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong> is proud to support a thriving business<br />
community, offering a balance of both small and large businesses<br />
in the retail, service and manufacturing sectors. The city’s central<br />
location in both the state of Missouri and the greater United<br />
States is a great asset to its economy, making <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong> a<br />
prime location for corporate headquarters and any other business<br />
looking to be well-connected with the entire state and country.<br />
As the state capital, <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong> attracts and retains a highly<br />
skilled and educated workforce, not only for government jobs, but<br />
also for industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, education,<br />
finance, hospitality and more.<br />
Quaker Windows and ProFoods are growing companies in the<br />
<strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong> MSA. A number of our other companies engineer<br />
and produce parts for many of the products you purchase.<br />
We’re proud of our business community, the many jobs they<br />
provide, their partnership with our local schools in training our<br />
workforce, and for their employees who live in our community.<br />
We invite you to discover our local businesses.<br />
The <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong> and Cole County governments and the<br />
<strong>Chamber</strong> are very supportive of new and small businesses. In<br />
addition to StartUp <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong>’s annual entrepreneur event, the<br />
<strong>Chamber</strong> provides a range of resources for small business owners<br />
and those looking to start their own business.<br />
You may be surprised how many of your household products<br />
come from <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong>. Unilever produces many of your<br />
personal products. Their plastic bottles, as well as many of your<br />
Coca Cola bottles, are also manufactured in <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong> by local<br />
companies ALPLA and Amcor Rigid Plastics. Diamond Dog<br />
Food bags are manufactured by Morris Packaging, and some of<br />
your plastic tubs, buckets and other household products are made<br />
by Continental Commercial Products.<br />
Have you ever attended a Scholastic Book Fair? Scholastic Inc<br />
ships books worldwide. Command Web in <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong> prints<br />
& binds many of the Scholastic books, and Modern Litho prints<br />
many of the magazines people read across the country. Trusses,<br />
steel products, landscaping rock and brick, automobile parts, and<br />
even mattresses are manufactured in <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>City</strong>.<br />
Photo courtesy of Modern Litho Print<br />
12 2017 <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Profile</strong>/<strong>Chamber</strong> <strong>Directory</strong>
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