CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Governors will hold a two-day session Monday and Tuesday, June 24 and 25, to include a board retreat Monday and a meeting Tuesday.
The agenda for the meeting is as follows:
The Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company in southwest Iowa is purchasing the Trenton Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Trenton, Missouri.
Atlantic Bottling CEO Rob Feeney says the expansion into northwest Missouri is a good addition and they now distributed up to the Missouri Iowa border and he says “it fits in really well with our existing Coca Cola distribution area.” Terms of the purchase were not released.
Feeney says they plan to bring the 24 employees in Missouri into the company. “We’re kind of operating the business together here and figuring out how we optimize it right, so we have not made any layoffs, and if we do we will certainly make sure that we provide the right package for any impacted employees,” Feeney says. Atlantic has expanded across Iowa and into parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois in the last several years.
Feeney says they will have around 874 employees with the addition of the Trenton workers.”We have job openings in a variety of different locations and opportunities in our bigger company. And that was another piece of our logic and in bringing over all 24 employees and sorting through things together as one big company,” he says. Feeney says they also made a big investment in a semi-automatic system to build their shipping loads about a year and a half ago at the warehouse in Des Moines.”It replaces some more manual movements people movements in the warehouse with more ergonomic movements, so it’s there’s a there’s a lot of benefits,” Feeney says. “We also get to upskill our labor and you know teach them the technology that’s behind the system which has been a huge gain for us.”
Feeney says the Coke and other products will ship out of Iowa into Missouri. )”And we produce now seven million cases of products annually, and we have plans in place for continued reinvestment and scaling up production there at Atlantic even more,” he says. Feeney says there are now around 61 Coca-Cola distributors across the country. “There’s a variety of different sizes and scales and capabilities. And so, you know, this is has been a little bit of a trend and consolidation,” Feeney says. “I don’t think it’s unique, I know it’s not unique just to Coca Cola but just more broadly speaking, there’s been consolidation in some of these distributorships occur across the country.”
The Trenton business was founded in 1893 and began production of Coca-Cola in April 1899, making it the first Coca-Cola bottler west of the Mississippi. The Atlantic company was founded by Frank P. “Perk” Tyler in 1905 initially as an ice cream and ice business, which grew to include a proprietary soda, “Tyler’s Flavors.” After selling the business to his three sons in 1909, they expanded the business by buying a creamery and began producing Coca-Cola in 1915.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Governors will hold a two-day session Monday and Tuesday, June 24 and 25, to include a board retreat Monday and a meeting Tuesday.
The agenda for the meeting is as follows:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department asked for the public’s help Friday to find a missing man they describe as dangerous.
Daniel Hicks, 21, was last seen about 4:40 p.m. Friday in the area of East 63rd Street and Park Avenue in east Kansas City, Missouri, police said.
Hicks is Black, 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds.
Police said Hicks has short black dreads with faded blond tips.
He was wearing blue hospital scrubs.
Police said Hicks, if spotted, should not be approached.
Anyone who sees or has information about Daniel Hicks should call 911.
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An investigation is underway after a crash involving a Missouri City police officer left two family members dead Thursday evening.
A mother and her son were killed in a car crash on Thursday evening after they were hit by a Missouri City Police car. Missouri City Police said they are still investigating the details after their officer was involved in the fatal accident. The accident happened about 8:40 p.m. as the family was leaving a parking lot when they were hit by the squad car on Cartwright near FM 2234.
Sergeant Steven Woodard with DPS says 53-year-old Angela Stewart and her 16-year-old son Mason were killed in the crash.
“I can confirm to you that he was the driver, and they were both pronounced deceased by the Fort Bend County Medical Examiner’s office,” said Sergeant Woodard.
The officer was responding to a robbery call at an ATM at the time of the collision. That’s when the family pulled out of the parking lot and was T-boned by the officer. Hours after the crash, another person was found in the backseat of the police car.
“As the investigation of the crash was being investigated by the Texas Department of Public Safety, it was discovered the responding officer in the crash had a male occupant in the backseat,” said Missouri City Police Chief Brandon Harris. “The occupant was transported to the Ben Taub Hospital and his condition is unknown.”
The Missouri City Officer was transported to the Medical Center and was later released. Missouri City police said they aren’t sure if the person in the backseat was in custody during the time of the accident. The department says it will be conducting an internal investigation into policies and procedures.
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