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Article: Nebraska Furniture Mart to Hire More People for New Store in Kansas City, Kan.
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- March 6, 2003
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By John Taylor, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 6--Turns out that what Nebraska Furniture Mart called a calculated risk in 2001 -- expanding into the Kansas City market -- may not have been all that risky.
About six months away from opening a new store in Kansas City, Kan., the Omaha-based company now says it will need 263 more employees than originally planned -- 738 people instead of 475.
"We're more optimistic now than we were when we announced (in February 2001)," said Bob Batt, the Mart's executive vice president.
Both Batt and Jeff Lind, who's in charge of developing the store and will ...