Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said Tuesday it landed a five-year, $3.8 million federal grant for a center that helps researchers collect and use data on the brain ... Read More
A private trade group says the manufacturing sector expanded in March at its strongest pace since July 2004. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, says its ... Read More
Tektronix, Inc. completed the acquisition of privately-owned SyntheSys Research, Inc. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. SyntheSys Research (Menlo Park, Calif.) develops and manufactures high-speed signal integrity test and measurement ... Read More
Each year about a million people visit the Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun theme parks in Kansas City, Missouri, most of them unaware of an even stranger attraction lying ... Read More
Stifel Financial Corp. said Monday it plans to buy San Francisco investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners for more than $300 million in stock. The deal will create a middle-market investment bank ... Read More
Saint Louis University today announced a $5 million grant from the Alberici Foundation to establish the new Center for Sustainability — a first for the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities. ... Read More
St. Louis County sold $7 million in bonds Tuesday to build a new incubator in Creve Coeur and renovate existing ones. The new incubator, which will be adjacent from the Bio-Research ... Read More
Spartech Corp. said Monday it picked Maryland Heights as the location of its new technology and innovation center. The new Technology and Innovation Center, a 90,000-square-foot facility at 11650 Lakeside Crossing ... Read More
Manufacturer Solo Cup Co. is buying take-out container maker InnoWare Plastic Inc. for $24 million in cash. The privately held company said Wednesday it will buy the unit of disposable foodservice ... Read More
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp. is getting $32 million in federal money to help develop future all-electric vehicles and to reimburse customers participating in a study of how the vehicles operate. ... Read More