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Best Companies to Work For: 2016

 From Compensation to Paid Time Off, Training to Advancement Opportunities and more. These Companies Lead the WayWhat’s baked into the cake of a great place to work? The recipe starts with leadership and vision. And it includes ingredients that not only energize… more

National Soccer Training Center breaks ground in KCK

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Sporting Club, U.S. Soccer and Children’s Mercy broke ground Sunday on the National Training and Coaching Development Center in Kansas City, Kansas. The NTCDC will provide a world-class environment to develop players, coaches, and referees of all… more

Ingram’s 100: KC’s Top 100 Private Companies

Ostensibly, this feature is about big businesses—the biggest that the Kansas City region has to offer. But in a way, it’s about planting trees.You start with seeds or saplings, nurture them for years, even decades, and end up with a… more

Loan Rangers

A decade of turbulence in the banking sector hasn’t deterred these locally owned banks in the Kansas City region.It’s been a wild ride in U.S. bank lending over the past decade, one that in some ways is like a roller… more

Between the Lines

So Why All The Hysteria About Kansas Schools?If you set aside the emotional issues that underpin the debate, the numbers and facts completely reframe the discussion.OK, let’s start this essay with a quiz: Who makes more, the departing superintendent of… more

KCP&L Parent Will Buy Westar Energy, Kansas’ Biggest Utility, for $12.2 Billion

  Great Plains Energy, the parent company of Kansas City Power & Light, announced this morning that it had reached an agreement to acquire Topeka-based Westar Energy, the largest utility in Kansas, for $12.2 billion in cash and stock, including… more

Amazon Will Snap Up Giant Spec Building at LPKC

Anyone following construction of the massive 822,000-square-foot Inland Port XIV building at Logistics Park Kansas City--the largest ever built on a spec basis in this market--might have thought that a state-of-the-art distribution center like that would have had Amazon.com written… more

D.H. Pace Adds Carolina Company to Its Stable

     Olathe-based D.H. Pace Co., maker of commercial and residential overhead doors and entryways, announced today that it had acquired Wade Door Services of Charlotte, N.C., and was moving that operation to the nearby suburb of Pineville, NC.     D.H. Pace… more

Netsmart Gets New Owner in $950 million sale

Netsmart Technologies, one of the region's Top 100 private companies, based on revenues, has a new owner and an expanded mission: The Overland Park-based provider of IT products for behavioral health-care providers is being sold for $950 million to a… more

Roots of the Family Tree

The successful family-owned company has a special place in the world of business. The premise is simple enough: “My family is the most important thing to me, so why not spend every day with the people I love most, working… more