Ingram's Magazine: June 2026


Ingram’s Magazine: June 2026

You can read Ingram’s June 2026 Digital Edition here.more

2026 Best of Business Kansas City Awards

Nearly four decades have passed since Ingram’s first asked readers to identify the businesses, organizations and institutions they believed stood above the rest. In that time, the names on these pages have changed in ways that reflect the evolution of…more

The C-Sweet Life

Forget the stark white walls and minimalist cold of the past decade. The luxury home in 2026 is warm, purposeful, and deeply personal—and Kansas City’s high-end homebuilders and remodelers say clients are rethinking every square foot of their estates with…more

One Region, One Stage

On June 16, Kansas City started to test the math. By 6 p.m., Power & Light District patios were three deep in Argentine blue and Algerian green, with a smaller scatter of jerseys from teams not even playing that night—fans…more

The Invisible Cost Transfer

Every year, the ritual repeats: the broker arrives with the renewal numbers, the CFO winces, the HR director absorbs the impact, and the company adjusts—higher deductibles here, a larger employee premium contribution there. The assumption embedded in that ritual is…more

Q&A . . . With Andrea O’Hara

Q: After FIFA’s recent bulk room cancellations for World Cup reservations, what’s your honest assessment of how that arrangement was structured? A: I think the big headline is that FIFA released 75 percent—that’s the number we’ve seen a lot—of the…more

Fraud Takes No Vacation

Summer travel is upon us, and there’s a lot to get done before you’re in vacation mode. Preparing to be away from work, making sure pets are taken care of, and the never-ending packing lists are on your mind. As…more

Private Markets Are Open: Should You Buy In?

For decades, private equity, private credit, and real assets were almost entirely out of reach for individual investors, reserved for university endowments, pension funds, and the ultra-wealthy. That’s changing fast. New distribution platforms, lower investment minimums, semi-liquid fund structures, feeder…more

Tariffs, Uncertainty, and Opportunity

For many businesses across Kansas City, tariffs have become one of the most unpredictable and misunderstood forces shaping today’s supply-chain environment. They have also become a paralyzing challenge for companies throughout the region that, even after a recent  Supreme Court…more

Up, Up, And Away!!

Earlier this month, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. Pause on that number for a second. For most of financial history, a billion dollars was an almost incomprehensible number. The entire U.S. economy did not cross the $1-trillion mark…more