Business Spotlight: Joy to the World

The halls are decked year-round at Kringles Christmas Shop in Branson. If co-owner Mel Bilbo had to guess, there are approximately 50,000 ornaments adorning more than 100 trees at the moment. Can there be too much Christmas, though? As an owner of a store which puts all its business ornaments onto one proverbial tree, Bilbo says no way. In November alone, the shop made more than $500,000 in sales. Kringles has sold Christmas year-round for the past 32 years, 20 of which were under Bilbo’s leadership...

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