Kabara round table event scheduled for April 13*

The Kabara Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies will present a round table discussion for students at 6 p.m. Friday, April 13, in the President’s Room of the Toner Student Center. Speaking will be Carolyn Parmer, wife of the late John Parmer ’50, and their son Raymond Parmer. They will speak to students about Cole-Parmer, a global source of laboratory and industrial fluid handling products, instrumentation, equipment and supplies.
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John Parmer and his partner, Jerry Cole, formed Cole-Parmer in 1955. At the time, there was no budget for personal salaries and no budget to hire additional employees. Instead, the pair poured their money into catalog advertising and inventory, and took up shop in a 1,200-square-foot loft on West Illinois Street in downtown Chicago. A true grassroots success story, the company’s ’07-’08 catalog featured 60,000 items, and headquarters are now a 269,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Vernon Hills, Ill.

This is a great opportunity for students from many different majors to hear about the entrepreneurial process. For information, contact Scott Deml at sdeml@smumn.edu.