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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 11, 2021) Registration is now open for the 11th annual Supply Chain Forum presented the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics. The free virtual event will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. daily on March 16-17.
This year’s theme, “Thriving Through Disruption,” will feature a keynote presentation by Monique Picou, former SVP/CSCO of Sam’s Club and current supply chain executive at Google.
Other speakers will include: Karin Bursa, CEO of NIRAKIO; Haoying Sun, director of the Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program at Gatton College; and Regina Lemgruber, vice president of demand planning at Estée Lauder.
The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce released the first of a new series of quarterly reports, “Kentucky’s Economic Recovery: A Quarterly Updated of Workforce, Employment, State GDP, and Exports,” on Tuesday
WNKY 40 News
February 9, 2021
FRANKFORT, Ky. On Tuesday, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce released the first of a new series of quarterly reports, “Kentucky’s Economic Recovery: A Quarterly Update of Workforce, Employment, State GDP, and Exports,” to track Kentucky’s economic recovery in partnership with the University of Kentucky Center for Business and Economic Research.
In addition to causing a global health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has also shaken the economy to its core. Very quickly, Kentucky set a record for the number of unemployment claims with more than 591,000 claims filed in six weeks, small businesses were closing, and the state’s workforce participation rate plummeted to the lowest in the nation.