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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City members will be getting a letter offering them free online identity protection after the company’s ID card provider revealed it was the victim of a computer hacker. Albany, N.Y.-based Newkirk Products on…
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Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN – News) on Wednesday announced results for the second quarter ended June 25, 2016, with growth in fitness and outdoor-sports products more than making up for continuing decline in its original auto-direction business. The company is…
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The nation's largest law-firm merger of the year is now a done deal, with the announcment today that Husch Blackwell and Milwaukee-based Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek had finalized the agreement announced in April. The new entity began operations on Friday, and…
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Sporting Club, U.S. Soccer and Children’s Mercy broke ground Sunday on the National Training and Coaching Development Center in Kansas City, Kansas. The NTCDC will provide a world-class environment to develop players, coaches, and referees of all…
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Lockton, the world's largest privately held independent insurance brokerage, announced this morning that Glenn Spencer would become president and chief executive officer next May, when John Lumelleau retires. Lumelleau has been at he helm during much of Lockton's rise from…
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Techweek, a traveling technology festival based in Chicago, has announced that Kansas City will be part of an expanded lineup that will bring the event to eight cities in 2016. Celebrating its fifth year, the festival will add Toronto and…
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Greg Graves, chairman and CEO of Burns & McDonnell and one of the Kansas City region's most engaged civic and philanthropic boosters, announced this morning that 2016 would be his last year at the helm of the engineering and design…
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On multiple levels, it was a milestone year. For the Kansas City region, 2015 goes into the history books as a year of change. A lot of it good, as when the Royals snagged the 2015 World Series title, and…
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ROYALS ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS The Kansas City Royals, in typical Royals fashion during the 2015 post-season, come back in the ninth inning and defeat the New York Mets with a 5-run 12th inning, capturing the 2015 World Series championship on…
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By assembling exactly the type of talent needed, the Kansas City Royals reached baseball’s pinnacle— and provided lessons in management that any business can embrace. There is a memorable line early in the movie Miracle, the 2004 film that chronicles…
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