Manufacturing
Merriam-based Seaboard Corp. reported a $103 million loss during its most recent quarter, a big drop from the same year-ago period, when the company earned $57 million. Net sales did rise, hitting about $1.7 billion from $1.5 billion last year.…
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Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against The Cincinnati Insurance Company that alleges a breach of contract stemming from its refusal to pay property insurance claims related to COVID-19. The law firm is representing Lenexa-based Promotional…
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's month manufacturing survey examining the region had its lowest reading in its history since launching in 1994. “Regional factory activity continued to decline in April, with our composite index falling to the lowest…
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A Conagra plant in Marhsall, Mo., is shutting down after about 20 employees there tested positive for COVID-19. The plant, which reportedly was already practicing social distancing and making sanitation efforts, is set to reopen on April 27. The company…
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Smithfield Foods is indefinitely closing its Martin City plant, which employs about 400 workers. The move follows the closure of a Sioux Falls, S.D. plant, which is considered one of the biggest COVID-19 hotspots in the United States, where hundreds…
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The industrial commercial real estate sector was still on track during the first quarter, according to a recent CBRE report. Vacancy rates were at 4.6 percent, the same as they were during the previous quarter, says the commercial real estate…
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SVP Worldwide, the owner of Singer, Viking and other sewing-machine brands, has partnered with Rightfully Sewn, a Kansas City-based non-profit that provides seamstress training. SVP donated 30 sewing machines to the organization, which has made a switch from fashion apparel…
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Unemployment claims were in excess of six million for the second week in a row, due to COVID-19, bringing the numbers to nearly 17 million over the last few weeks. For the week ended April 4, claims were 6.06 million,…
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The CDC has issued guidance for critical infrastructure employees who might have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 to return to work. Critical-infrastructure employees are considered those who work in 16 different sectors, including those in law enforcement, janitorial staff,…
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Port KC has adopted a policy to fast-track e-commerce and manufacturing projects in distressed census tracts in an effort to bring more jobs to those areas The hope is that these quickly approved industrial projects could bring jobs with strong…
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