Ingram's Magazine: August 2024 and Destination Missouri 2024 - Your Guide to Investing in Missouri
To see it on a map, there’s little to suggest relevance or historical significance of the building at latitude: 39° 05’ 18.60” N, longitude: -94° 36’ 12.59” W. But in some ways, the building that Kansas City once knew as…
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PUBLISHED AUGUST 2024 What makes business in Missouri tick? Start with high-powered executives, blend in a healthy dose of high-achieving non-profit leaders, and top it off with some high-level thinkers in education, the arts, entertainment, sports and more. The fabric…
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Looking back across half a century of business growth in Missouri, one gets a true sense of the state’s ability to sustain an amazing diversity of business models. Beyond the banks, retailers and insurance companies that are boilerplate elements of…
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District 1: Northwest Missouri Counties: Andrew, Atchison, Caldwell, Carroll, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway, Worth District Population: 148,901 Biggest City (population): Maryville (10,461) Other Population Centers: Chillicothe, Cameron, Bethany, Savannah Major Employers: Kawasaki Motors,…
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A.G. Edwards Year Founded: 1887 Headquarters: St. Louis Sector: Financial Services Number of Employees: 15,338 For the better part of its 120 years, the name A.G. Edwards was synonymous with U.S. brokerage houses. Founded by Albert Gallatin Edwards and…
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No history of American entrepreneurship would be complete without a chapter—a thick one—on the achievements recorded by Show-Me State business visionaries. Starting with an inspiration, they produced generational wealth in consumer products, manufacturing, financial services, health-care, transportation and more. Even…
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In the final analysis, it only took one guy—Stan Kroenke—and 790 million of his dollars to bring the entirety of Missouri into the Kansas City Chiefs Kingdom. When the owner of the St. Louis Rams abruptly and classlessly pulled that…
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Imagine you’re a national distributor of consumer products. You want to build a new distribution center that will get your product to as many people as possible, nationwide, with the least amount of time in a truck on the road.…
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In the big picture, a statewide economy doesn’t come with much more stability than you’ll find in Missouri. Its diverse blend of agribusiness, manufacturing, financial and professional services, health-care and construction concerns created both vibrancy and consistency in the aggregate.…
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Fifty years after its first edition rolled off the presses, Ingram’s today is a number of things, but if we had to boil it all down to a single phrase, we’re about recognizing excellence in business and building connections. We…
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