Springfield Business Journal_2020-06-15

52 · SBJ.NET JUNE 15-21, 2020 FEATURING KIRK BAUMANN Social Media is a Billboard FEATURING LUCAS WALKER, DAMION TROUT AND MARY OVERBEY COVID-19 Coverage: Survival Versus Growth Mode FEATURING RICHARD OLLIS COVID-19 Coverage: Dealing with Isolation Facebook.com/sbj.net Twitter.com/sbjnet SBJ.net/enews SBJ.NET WEEK ON THE WEB MOST READ SBJLIVE.NET POLL 1. CrossFit Springfield to ‘de-affiliate’ over comments by CEO 2. Bundt cake chain to fill Brentwood space 3. HBA parts ways with CEO 4. Scotch & Soda makes way for Sweet Boy’s 5. Health Department announces another potential exposure 6. Springfield’s newest brewery opens 7. $13M attraction opens in Branson 8. Curb Appeal: High-end home activity spikes in Springfield 9. Former Lamar Johnson trio opens firm 10. Missouri records biggest jump in COVID-19 cases in a month Is your business doing enough to support diversity/ inclusion and social justice? NEXT QUESTION: Do you support decisions by companies, such as NASCAR, to remove the Confederate flag from events? Vote at SBJ.net/poll 44% Yes 33% Not the role of businesses 23% No Total: 255 Collected June 5–11 NEW DIRECTION FOR BCFO PARTNERSHIP Joe Daues, CEO of Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks, says the nonprofit is developing a unique partnership with a local sorority chapter. TOP QUOTE “The insensitivity of Greg Glassman’s tweet, the untimeliness, the social unawareness ... it doesn’t align with everything that I know God has purposed within me and within our culture and our community at CrossFit Springfield.” —Jeremy Mhire, owner of CrossFit Springfield, on a racially insensitive post by the corporate CEO