
Donation and award celebrate Big Lots-Columbia College internship program
Steve Fishman, Fortune 500 retailer Big Lots, Inc. Chairman, CEO, and President and a 1974 Columbia College graduate, presented the Columbia College Business Administration Department with a check for $25,000 today on the Columbia College campus. Fishman also presented Dr. Gerald Brouder, Columbia College president, and Dr. Sean Siebert, assistant professor of Business Administration, with the firm’s exclusive Exclaim Award — one of the first to be presented outside the organization. The Exclaim Award is presented as a crystal figure of the company’s logo, an exclamation mark.
“I was delighted and surprised to receive the award and the $25,000 check for the Business department,” Brouder said. “Dr. Siebert and the faculty of the Business department are to be commended for creating and promulgating this internship program. It speaks to the quality of our faculty, to our ability to create strong bonds with the business community and to the enduring affection and gratitude graduates such as Mr. Fishman have for alma mater.”

Big Lots, Inc., headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, currently has revenues of approximately $5 billion and 1,418 retail outlets in the contiguous United States and 88 Liquidation World and LW Stores in Canada.
A store will open in Columbia, Mo., in early November. Fishman noted the company has opened 90 U.S. locations this year alone and has generous cash reserves but not enough qualified employees.
“We want to give talented and qualified individuals opportunities to grow and develop with our company,” he said, adding that with qualified employees, the firm could be a $10 billion firm.
8 comments:
This is so great! The company I work for does business, actually taking Big Lots inventories around the country! I will be sure to shop there more often!
This is awesome! Who would've thought that I work for a college that helped propel this guy to CEO, and this is a HUGE treat to see him remember his roots!
This is great! It goes to show how one person can make a difference and how Columbia College made a difference in his life!
Does this mean that the CEO can help us get a Big Lots in Columbia? That would be fantastic. It's a great chain that offers some really wonderful bargains for every budget.
Big Lots IS coming to Columbia. They open in early November.
Brandi, thanks for the information! Any news on where it is? Do we get to have a Columbia College school spirit section? :)
It'll be the former Nowell’s location, RB shopping center
Hooray finally in Columbia, MO I have been praying for this ever since I left New York.
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