(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Lebanon, Missouri’s population is a few hundred people more than 14,000. To put that number in perspective, 1,120,000 people ride the commuter train on the average New York weekday. In Lebanon, people welcome you with open arms, parents interact one on one with school teachers, and real estate remains inexpensive.

Lebanon represents every possible allure of small-town America. All that charm may have its perks, but what good is small-town appeal when you are an 80-year-old manufacturing company with an inability to find new employees inhibiting your business’s growth?

In some ways, that appeal has everything to do with it: You just have to show it off!

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