Manufacturing
Now that Boeing is no longer taking orders from its plants in Washington State and South Carolina, it is reducing pay by 20 percent for its executives and implemented workforce reductions for 2,800 employees in Wichita, which will undoubtedly have…
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Kansas City-based Commerce Bancshares has delayed its quarterly financial filings from April 14 to April 28, due to problems posed by COVID-19. It follows another large area public company, Seaboard Corporation, which has changed its annual meeting location on April…
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The unemployment picture in the United States has gotten a lot more grim, due to COVID-19 shock waves. For the week ended March 28, unemployment claims hit 6.448 million, a new record since the numbers have been tracked by the…
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Holding company Stone Canyon Industries Holdings (SCIH), based in Los Angeles, has closed on the the $2 billion acquisition of Overland Park-based Kissner Group Holdings, a commercial evaporated-salt producer. "We look forward to applying our long-term growth-oriented business model to…
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Beyond the now-familiar concepts of stay-at-home directives, social distancing and more deliberate personal care, the war on COVID-19 continues to expand on another front: manufacturing. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has called on manufacturers to help produce personal protective equipment to…
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Kansas City-based MRIGlobal has launched a new line of mobile laboratories that are designed "to address a myriad of biological and chemical threats," the company says. "MRIGlobal's mobile lab solutions have become essential infrastructure to many nations and customers in…
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A week into the stay-at-home directive from local governments, officials from the University of Kansas Health System said Tuesday morning that the coming week could be determinative in the fight against spread of the COVID-19 virus. Steven Stites, the hospital's…
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Mayor Quinton Lucas has issued a State of Emergency in Kansas City that will last for an initial 21 days in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. One of the main conditions of the order issued prohibits…
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The global coronavirus outbreak hasn't hurt the strong U.S. labor market ... yet. Unemployment in February dropped slightly, to 3.5 percent from 3.6 percent in January, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, national payrolls rose by 273,000…
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Hostess Brands is purchasing Voortman Cookies Limited for $320 million from a San Francisco-based private-equity firm, boosting its exposure to the cookie category. “Voortman is a leading brand with a well-defined consumer position that complements and extends the growing Hostess…
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