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Legacy Restaurant Group in Overland Park has acquired 35 Kansas City-area Wendy’s restaurants from Leawood-based NPC International Inc. The acquisition more than triples Legacy Restaurant Group’s (LRG) location count, bringing the total to 51 restaurants in Kansas and Missouri. Financial…
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said he won’t require vaccine passports for travelers in the state, but is comfortable with private companies adopting them. Vaccine passports, also known as health certificates or travel passes, are documents that show a traveler has…
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AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. is exploring using a possible equity issuance to pare debt obligations or overdue rent. If shareholders authorize the issuance of up to 500 million additional shares, as AMC has proposed, the company would consider using proceeds…
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Kansas City’s largest private company, Dairy Famers of America (DFA), emerged from a difficult 2020 even larger. DFA reported an increase in sales and profits for the previous year, according to a news release on its website. Dairy Farmers of…
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On Tuesday, April 6, Kansas City, Missouri, voters will decide on the one percent city earnings tax. The tax is paid by city residents, non-residents who work in the city and businesses located in the city. According to the city,…
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The acquisition of Kansas City-headquartered Custom Truck One Source has been finalized, the specialized truck and heavy equipment solutions provider selling to Nesco Holdings, Inc. News of the acquisition was originally announced back in December 2020. Today, the transaction closed…
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Prime Capital Investment Advisors (PCIA) closed on a deal Thursday bringing on Arkansas-based Sphere Wealth Management. The transaction adds $50 million in assets under management (AUM) to Prime's $11.2 billion in AUM. The deal has added more than 200 families…
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A series of executive orders signed Thursday by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly aim to encourage Kansas counties to keep COVID-19 mask mandates. Among them was an order to extend the mask mandate, although it was revoked by the Republican-controlled Legislative…
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