Missouri
The Kansas City region's largest medical center, The University of Kansas Hospital, announced today that it was launching a partnership with Rehabilitation Hospital of Overland Park to provide services for patients throughout the Midwest. In a news release announcing the move, the…
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One of the biggest accounting and consulting firms headquartered in the Kansas City area is getting bigger: MarksNelson this morning announced its second acquisition of 2015, with Overland Park-based Marsh & Co. being absorbed effective Jan. 1. "This acquisition is right…
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An iconic company on the Kansas City restaurant scene is about to be under new management: HRI, the parent of Houlihan's Restaurants and other fine and casual-dining concepts, announced today that it would be acquired by York Capital Management, a global private investment…
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A proposed 700,000-square-foot expansion that would double the work force at the headquarters of Garmin is on the agenda tonight for the Olathe Planning Commission. If approved, the facility would be built on the northwest corner of 151st Street and…
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Financial Engines, a California-based independent investment advisory firm, has agreed to pay $560 million in cash and stock to acquire The Mutual Fund Store, the Overland Park firm founded in 1996 by Adam Bold. The Mutual Fund Store, which sold majority…
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Recent donations, including three totaling $3.5 million, have pushed the University of Missouri-Kansas City closer to its goal of raising $48 million in private funding for its planned Downtown Campus for the Arts, expected to be the future home of…
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Where do we begin? Six innings of gutsy pitching from a guy who buried his father just days before? An extra-inning rally keyed by a player without a plate appearance since October 4th? Two innings of hitless relief from a…
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Nearly a generation ago, Ingram’s launched the Top Doctors recognition program to spotlight the best of the hands-on physicians who made up what was then—and still is today—regarded as a highly sophisticated medical community for a metropolis of this size.…
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“The day we are not talking about gender as a role in success,” says Wendy Hills, “will be the day we’ve achieved true gender equality in the workplace.” Hills, the senior vice president and general counsel for Waddell & Reed…
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As the Royals press to repeat the glory of 1985, their winning ways are shining a bright light on the Kansas City region itself. It’s not exactly parallel to the description that “It’s a Wonderful Life” provided about the provenance…
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