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Associated Wholesale Grocers, (AWG), has announced that its merger with Affiliated Foods Midwest (AFM), ratified by an AFM shareholders vote in September, has been successfully completed. First shipments to stores out of its newest divisions in Norfolk, Nebraska and Kenosha,…
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Metropolitan Community College (MCC) announced today that its chancellor, Mark James, plans to retire in June 2017. James joined the five-campus community college in 2009 and has been chancellor since 2010. James is credited with leading MCC through one of…
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Lockton has announced the appointment of Peter Clune as its next US President and Chief Operating Officer, succeeding Glenn Spencer who was previously named President and CEO of Lockton, Inc.’s global operation. Both appointments are effective May 1, 2017. “Peter…
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A Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) study out today says that 8.5 percent of Missouri households did not have a bank accounting in 2015 and that 22.3 percent were underbanked. For Kansas, the figures were 7.6 percent unbanked and 18.3…
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The Lee's Summit City Council has approved a conceptual development plan and zoning classification change for the Village at View High development. The classification will change from District Single-family Residential (R-1) to District Planned Mixed Use (PMIX). Plans for the…
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Techstars—an investment organization that calls itself a “global ecosystem” of founders, mentors, investors, and partners “that helps entrepreneurs build great businesses”—is expanding its reach to Kansas City. They’ll be looking for investment opportunities in the region through an application process…
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Kansas regulators have warned, although they have taken no action, they could halt the $12.2 billion sale of Topeka-based Westar Energy to Great Plains Energy if merger standards aren't met—this according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. The concerns surround a September…
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The entrepreneurship-supporting KCRise Fund—a sidecar venture capital initiative of the KC Rising economic development effort—announced today that it has selected two area companies for the fund’s first investments. The companies chosen are, SpiderOak, an online data security company with several…
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A.G. Sulzberger—son of New York Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.—has been named deputy publisher of the New York Times. His career to-date includes two years as the Times’ Kansas City bureau chief. In his new role Sulzberger will work closely with…
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Missouri’s Department of Economic Development released seasonally adjusted data today, saying the state’s nonfarm payroll employment grew by 6,700 jobs in September. The largest private-industry employment growth for the month occurred in health care & social assistance (+2,400 jobs), followed…
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