Business Culture

Productive Workforce

Missouri’s workers consistently rank as among the most productive in a  number of industries, driving bottom-line successes for employers in the state. In general, many Missouri communities have a national advantage in terms of labor, especially for industries such as… more

Missouri Business Climate

Missouri boasts economic conditions that are healthy and beginning to open some significant new pathways to success for the Show-Me State. With an agricultural base so solid it is often taken for granted, Missouri surprisingly thrives in tourism, life sciences… more

Leading Industries

Missouri’s economy is highly diversified, which makes for a healthy business climate—but one that can be challenging to classify. As with other locales, Missouri’s service industry provides far more jobs than any other field. This area also includes a growing… more

Leading Industries

KANSAS CITY HAS NEVER RELIED ON A SINGLE INDUSTRY OR SECTOR FOR ITS SUCCESS. IT'S A CITY THAT WAS DIVERSIFYING BEFORE DIVERSIFICATION WAS COOL.  Agribusiness always has been and always will be a large part of Kansas City’s commercial identity.… more

On Fertile Ground

THERE ARE GOOD REASONS WHY COMPANIES THRIVE—AND STAY—IN KC There are two ways to classify major corporations that call the Kansas City region home: Companies that are major employers here, and companies that have big-time revenues. Granted, employment and revenues… more

Business Climate and Economic Conditions

WHAT MAKES FOR AN IDEAL BUSINESS LOCATION? IT HELPS TO KNOW THE BASICS. Writing for the Economic Policy Institute back in 2005, Peter Fisher explored the relationship between business-oriented public policy and rankings purporting to gauge the business friendliness of… more

A Productive Work Force

SKILLED, MOTIVATED AND RELIABLE—ATTRIBUTES THAT DEFINE WORKERS HERE. Some day, some plucky member of Congress might convince the bean-counters at the Bureau of Labor Statistics that it would be a good idea to gather and release data on work-force productivity… more

Headquarters and Cornerstones

The rhythms of business life dictate that companies will come, and companies will go. But the real players, the ones that are here for the long term, the ones that can skim over the reefs of recession as easily as… more

Leading Industries

Agribusiness always has been and always will be a large part of Kansas City’s commercial identity. It’s the home of some of the biggest dairy, meat processing, food distribution and grain production and storage companies in the United States. But… more

Business Climate and Economic Conditions

As 2017 dawned, the Kansas City region had much to celebrate: Unemployment in both Missouri and Kansas had reached levels not seen since before the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, construction companies were firing on all cylinders to… more