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Whoever said “it’s lonely at the top” evidently never ran a large private company. Not only is it NOT lonely there, you’ll find plenty of competition for a seat when the music stops on annual revenue calculations for the largest…
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Kansas City-based Populous announced this morning that it would bolster its foreign operations by merging with Jump Studios, a architecture and interior design practice based in London. Both organizations will continue to operate as separate practices, Populous said in a news release announcing the strategic…
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An Italian company that makes vinyl windows, doors, panels and other construction products says it will open a manufacturing facility in Ste. Genevieve, bringing 122 jobs to the county. Gov. Jay Nixon made the announcement today at a meeting of the Hawthorn Foundation,…
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The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has formally announced the award of an $834 million contract for construction of the research labs at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan. That's the final piece of the $1.25 billion project,…
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Hyatt Hotel Rendering Kansas City is getting its long-awaited Downtown convention hotel: Mayor Sly James and project developers announced this morning that an 800-room hotel, flying the Hyatt flag, would be built across the street from the Kansas City Convention…
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Fast-food franchisee KBP Foods announced this morning that it had completed a management buyout from its equity providers, paving the way for the next round of growth from the Overland Park-based company. With restaurants in Kansas City and Omaha and eight…
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Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors, was in Kansas City this morning to announce the carmaker's plans for investing $174 million in its Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kan. It was a 2-for-1 ceremony, as GM also popped the cork…
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Shook, Hardy & Bacon announced today that it would enter the Chicago market by bringing on board the lawyers and staff from Grippo & Elden LLC, a complex commercial litigation boutique firm there, effective March 1. That will bring to 11…
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Joe Ratterman, who built BATS Global Markets into the second-largest equities trading platform in the U.S., is turning the reins of chief executive officer over to Chris Concannon, who joined the company in December. The effective date for that transition…
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Kansas City may want to think of itself as the Entrepreneurial Capital of America, but if it is, it's an oasis in a two-state desert of regulations that stifle entrepreneurship among the poor. That's according to a new report assessing conditions…
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