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BizBeat: Clock shop ticks into Jefferson City

Ralls County Clock Company is an authorized retailer of Howard Miller, Ridgeway and Americana grandfather clocks and Schneider cuckoo clocks, and is one of only two authorized Schneider servicers in North America. “Most of our business is in repair and ...

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Germany is known for its strong manufacturing industry consisting of high-tech small and medium enterprises that drive its economic growth. It holds also one of the biggest consumer electronics fairs called IFA in Berlin. Germany will offer tourism ...

Francs, Fear and Folly

Ah, Switzerland, famed for cuckoo clocks and sound money. Other nations may experiment with radical economic policies, but with the Swiss you don't get surprises. found themselves under severe stress, money seeking a safe haven began pouring into ...

Greeks Investigate Statistics Chief Over Deficit Figure

ATHENS—Greek authorities are escalating a criminal investigation against the head of the official statistics service, accused by some politicians of inflating the budget deficit to help Greece's creditors justify the country's unpopular bailout terms ...

Rising Franc Upends Daily Life in Swiss Borderlands

CAMPIONE D'ITALIA, Italy—Switzerland's decision last month to lift the cap on the franc sent the currency flying 40% against the euro and roiled financial markets world-wide. But for Enrico Lironi, the decision hit painfully close to home. The teacher ...

Dream Space: Clockmaker Marks Time at Home

If Erik Ulfers can't sleep, he won't just lie there staring at the clock. He's more likely to take one apart piece by piece and rebuild it. All he'd have to do is walk down the hall into his clock workshop—a 170-square-foot studio he built onto the ...

Pellet Shortage Hits Town

They might be making cuckoo clocks, but they aren't making pellets.” … “I've had a contract with one of my pellet suppliers In addition, “There are just not enough manufacturing plants to supply us. A lot of us have to tell the supplier how much ...