COLORS stands for Columbia Locally Owned Retail & Services.
We are an educational non-profit organization that recognizes the power of
communities to take charge of their destinies through informed spending
decisions. Any business that's locally owned, located within Boone County
Missouri, with no more than six outlets is eligible to be a member (please
contact us for more details). Individuals can become supporting members, too!
When you support independent retailers, your money recirculates back into the
local economy instead of migrating to corporate headquarters far away.
This enriches the whole community.
Supporting our one-of-a-kind businesses keeps our town unique and
diversified. You help maintain the great neighborhoods you've grown to love.
Learn more about what happens when you buy locally.
Shape your community by choosing where your dollars go!
Fact:
A locally owned independent business returns about 45 cents of each dollar
spent back to the Columbia community, as opposed to 15 cents for the average
chain store. And dollars spent at local independents have a "multiplier
effect"- every dollar spent will generate five times that amount as it
cycles back through the community.
for information write to:
COLORS Alliance
P.O. Box 184
Columbia, MO 65205
(573) 239-1550
Want to be in the next Community Buying Guide? Join us!
Organized in the summer of 2004, by November we joined
the national group AMIBA, the American Independent Business Alliance. For
more information on how to set up an alliance of locally owned businesses,
visit www.AMIBA.net.
Check out the COLORS newest member Kayotea! On Monday, April 3rd at 4:30 p.m., Kayotea will have a grand opening and Ribbon Cutting ceremony. This new Broadway business offers the best loose leaf tea varieties, a great bistro, and a great gift selection.
Stop in and have some tea and welcome Kayotea to COLORS and Columbia.
KOPN, 89.5FM, a COLORS member and a locally owned community radio station has been on the air for 33 years. KOPN has received 3 grants and numerous pledges of private donations for $82,000 to replace our outmoded broadcast transmitter. We need to raise an additional $28,000 to complete this project.
COLORS Business member Tom Riordan of Columbia Accupunture, will be giving a free talk on Natural Ways to Prevent Osteoporosis at the public library Friends Room on Tuesday Jan. 17th at 7pm. Osteoporosis is the reduction in bone mass to the point where bones become fragile enough to break during normal daily activity.
More than half of all woman will experience a bone
fracture from osteoporosis during their lifetime.
Come and find out how you can prevent this silent
disease.
Wednesday, December 14 2005 @ 10:14 AM PST Contributed by: Leigh Views: 1,604
Lisa Bartlett, The Vintage Shop, designed this eye-catching ad that appears in the Columbia Daily Tribune during the holiday shopping season. "76 Reasons You Already LOVE to Shop Locally-Owned"
If you miss it in the Tribune, you can view it as a .pdf by going to the top of the page and clicking on Downloads.
