Ingram's Magazine: January 2025
PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 His father was an investment banker who, in his spare time, did some home remodeling along Ward Parkway, so young Tom Whittaker had early exposure to construction. During his college years, his interest in math led him…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Tom O’Grady was born in New Jersey and was raised in Connecticut, not far from major population centers where the infrastructure of—well…everything—is substantially denser, more complex, more expansive and more vertical than natives of the Kansas City…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Growing up in Raytown, Natalie Daney saw the insurance industry from an outsider’s perspective. The view wasn’t entirely pleasant. “My dad was a barber and my mom did not work outside of the home,” she says. “I…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Anyone who knows the rigors of construction accounting will fully appreciate what Jeff Placek had to achieve to become chief financial officer for McCownGordon Construction, the second-largest hometown contractor in this region. Anyone who knows the rigors…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Across the Kansas City region, across the nation and even around the world, there are people whose first step to career achievement came on a trail blazed by Dana Streck. As a vital cog in the hiring…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Once upon a time, on a high school basketball court in the northwest suburbs of Oklahoma City, a lanky 6-foot-8 teenager would finagle his way into the high school gym after hours, set up his boom box,…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 No review of a region’s biggest business deals in a given year is complete if one limits the definition of a “deal” to dollars paid for goods/services rendered. With that in mind, some of the biggest deals…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 The year just past brought significant developments across global markets, capping off a banner year with quarterly gains despite economic shifts, policy changes, and geopolitical events. The S&P 500 recently posted one of its strongest monthly…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Against All Odds In any given year, nearly 600,000 U.S. businesses fail; on average, 17,000 of them won’t just close their doors, they’re forced into formal bankruptcy. But averages can obscure real-time conditions. If you take a…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Looking back on a generation’s worth of annual economic forecasts, we’ve learned one thing about looking ahead to the state of the regional and national economy: Discerning the future is, at best, a 50-50 proposition. Some projections…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 As business owners and leadership teams prepare for the new administration to take office this month, you should maintain a long-term perspective. Many of the themes that you have been grappling with since the pandemic are likely…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 The Corporate Transparency Act, enacted to shed light on the often-opaque world of corporate ownership and control, has become embroiled in a legal battle that has now reached the highest court in the land. This ongoing saga…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 The minimum wage in Missouri increased to $13.75 per hour on Jan. 1 and will increase by $1.25 per hour more in 2026, when it will be $15 per hour. The minimum wage will be adjusted based…
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PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025 Q: Let’s start with the news: can you put the initial threat of a longshoreman’s strike into context for people, and help them understand the importance of that tentative deal becoming finalized? A: Ports like Los Angeles,…
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