 Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Ryan Coleman. I'm the director of economic development for the city of Columbia And thank you very much for joining us today as we celebrate the Grand rebranding and reopening of the lab of him down here in five points. It's my pleasure to welcome our esteemed guest speaker lineup today first We're going to have miss Heather McDonald. She's director of five points Association followed by the honorable mayor Daniel Rickman for the city of Columbia and then finally our Guest of honor miss Ema Tibido the owner of a lab of him With that, I'll turn it over to you Hello everyone On behalf of myself in the five points Association Ema I want to say congratulations and that we are grateful you have been and will continue to be a part of our special village You and I have talked a lot about this journey for you And so I'd like to pass along a simple quote today that I think is very fitting And that is the best way to excuse me the best way to predict the future is to create it You're certainly done that here, and I wish you much success and continued success in the days ahead Well, it's a beautiful day in Columbia. Look the sky opened up here Surrounded by all these beautiful women behind us, but what's really exciting is once again woman-owned business in our city Growing rebranding and making a difference and we've had the pleasure of having so many businesses Opened in our community by women I think it's a real testimony to our community But small business backbone of our community and that's how we built it when you look around this village And you go up to Vine Street and you go down Main Street you everywhere What you see the majority of is small businesses sprinkled with some some other ones But really small which is is the backbone and that's why we grow small businesses grow here They invest here and they give back here and they're part of our community and email. I'm so excited for you and Today as you get to you know, we lost a bohemian now We got a new bohemian which is really exciting for us But congratulations and all you ladies for being here and being part of it But you're the star so we want to bring you up Now you're prepared Good afternoon. We are honored with the presence of our mayor and Mr. Brent, Mr. Brennan is not here. So Ryan Coleman. Thank you so much for coming In January we closed the loved 70 year old gift store Gibson's and in February we opened la bohem, which is one of my favorite Puccini operas The concept of rebranding is a complex one While we wanted to be and look fresh colorful and bohemian At the same time we wanted to keep the aspects of Gibson's that worked well for seven decades We did not want to look traditional, but we did want to offer traditional customer service Tradition comes from the Latin verb trado a handover So we kept some traditional elements and we mix them with our new bohemian items We combine the old and the new by bringing ethnic pieces for example Bohemian kimonos from Scotland funky candles from South Africa dolls from Ukraine and trace from the Netherlands But we kept the 250 year old crane stationary Which also prints the American dollar 25 percent linen and to 75 percent cotton for your information and We kept the 2000 greeting cards and we kept the complimentary gift wrapping Goodbye Gibson girls. Hello bohemian babes