INGRAM'S • June 2014• Volume 40, No. 6
Crowded at the Top
The competition for being the best and the biggest is fierce in business, and nowhere is that demonstrated as clearly as in the battle among those who aspire to be the Kansas City area’s largest private companies.
The Top 100 Private Companies
Topped by nearly two dozen organizations that cracked the $1 billion revenue mark, Ingram’s unveils its 2014 update on the Top 100 Private Companies in the KC region.
50 Missourians You Should Know
From research scientists to corporate CEOs and regular Joes, you’ll be impressed with the business acumen, policy savvy and civic engagement demonstrated by our 50 Missourians You Should Know for 2014.
Ingram’s Archive Series: The History of Real Estate
How did we get where we are today as a metro area? A lot of factors played into that, along with a lot of choices—some good, some we’d like to have over.
Engineering and Architecture Industry Outlook Report
What do you get when a dozen of the region’s key executives from the engineering and design community come together to assess their interests going forward? The 2014 Engineering and Architecture Industry Outlook assembly, which showed increasing signs of optimism.
Engineering Retrospective
Big firms drive significant increases in hiring engineers.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
Sales Moves
Still trying to cold call, pitch the product, overcome objections, and close the sale? Stop it: The old way of selling is dead.
Wealth Management
If you’re thinking that investing in real estate is a game for high rollers alone, you should think again.
PERSPECTIVES
Editor's Note
My Missouri
Between the Lines
Kansas City has a chance to shed a long history of blunders related to large-scale infrastrure projects. But the outlook isn’t good.
