Platte County
Procter and Gamble will close its Kansas City, Kansas plant by 2020 the company announced Wednesday. The Our Dish Care business will be moved to Tabler Station, West Virginia by mid-2020 with the full closure of the KCK site by…
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The University of Missouri System has named C. Mauli Agrawal the new chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City effective June 20th of this year. Agrawal comes to UMKC from the University of Texas San Antonio where he served as…
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17-year Lockton veteran Rich Reda is now the President of Benefit Communication Insourcing business, the company announced Friday. Reda was previously an executive vice president with the company and was named an Ingram's 40 under forty award recipient in 2009.…
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Almost three years after laying off close to 200 people from its Kansas City assembly plant, officials from Harley-Davidson have announced that they are closing the plant for good. Worldwide sales of Harley-Davidson products were down more than 6 percent…
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Show Me, You Say? Here You Go. What makes Missouri stand out? Start with its people. We’ve heard it time and time again from executives who are re-assigned to locations in Missouri from parts east and west: “I never knew…
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In a room full of high schoolers, garnering attention is at a premium. Pulling kids, and adults, away from their phones to drive home a message has beome one of the more taxing parts of public speaking. So Paul Brunson…
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The Crossroads district Downtown is about to get a little busier: The City Council's planning and zoning committee has given its unanimous approval to a project that would add 228 apartments and parking garage at 20th and Broadway.…
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At a time when reducing energy consumption is uppermost in many minds, Kansas City is contributing to state-of-the art solutions. FridgeWize—a Colorado company whose operations group is based in Kansas City— has been recognized by The Energy Awards—for creating the Energy…
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Kansas City’s growing reputation as a vital distribution hub at the center of the United States received further burnishing today, when The Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC) announced that CVS Pharmacy, America’s leading retail pharmacy, will build a 762,000-sq.-ft.…
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Missouri’s Governor Jay Nixon announced today that Missouri set new tourism records during the 2016 fiscal year (FY16). Citing an annual report compiled by Tourism Economics, he said Missouri welcomed 41.7 million visitors in FY16, a 3.2 percent increase from…
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