Ingram’s Magazine: November 2024 and Destination Kansas 2024 – Your Guide to Investing in Kansas

Ingram’s November 2024 Digital Edition

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50 Kansans You Should Know

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 Bankers, teachers, entrepreneurs and visionaries: Meet 50 extraordinary Kansans who are driving growth and success at their organizations, and building better communities through that work. This is Ingram’s 14th year of 50 Kansans You Should Know, bringing…more

Sunflower Power: Kansas’ Executive Elites

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 Over the past half-century these captains of industry created, led or shaped companies that changed the face of a state, a nation, and a world. Lionel Alford, The Boeing Co., Wichita A suicide mission. That’s what Lionel…more

Blooms in the Sunflower State

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 Kansas entrepreneurs have changed the world. An idle boast? Just check the record. Other elements of this special issue focus on the biggest names in business leadership over the past 50 years. But those leaders achieved spectacular…more

Outstanding in Their Fields

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 To understand the sports scene in Kansas, it helps to start with a quick geography lesson. So here it is: U.S. Highway 81 almost exactly bisects the state’s 105 counties: 50 of them are either west of…more

50 Years of Game-Changers

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 The final chapter in the history of business in Kansas over the past few years would have an almost ironic sense of how things can come full circle. Earlier this year, The Boeing Co. agreed to buy…more

Kansas’ Seven Thriving Districts

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 DISTRICT 1: NORTHEAST Contrast may be the name of the game for Northeast Kansas. Anchored by the state capital and regional center of Topeka, this region offers an extremely wide range of business and lifestyle opportunities.  The…more

Kansas’ 50 Most Impactful Companies

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 Entrepreneurship reigns supreme in a state that has produced companies with extraordinary global reach. Here are several of the most successful—and consequential—organizations throughout the Great State of Kansas over the past half century. AdventHealth Year Founded: 1973…more

Counting Down to 50

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2024 Five decades ago, a Kansas City investment broker by the name of Ludwell Gaines decided the business community here was missing a few things: a sense of curiosity, a modicum of integrity, and enough fire in the…more