Yearly Archives: 2016

Missouri tech startup Bonfyre expects to double workforce size in 2016

Bonfyre Inc., the creator of a private social communication platform, announced plans to double its presence in St. Louis with the addition of 12 new high-paying jobs this year, bringing total ... Read More

Missouri-based companies continue to lead the world in AgTech

It seems every day we hear about another Missouri-based companies leading the AgTech industry.   Whether through the latest in animal health, big data and precision agriculture, seed development, or new ... Read More

Lee’s Summit pump manufacturer JCI Industries Inc. pumps up space, jobs

JCI Industries Inc., a supplier of industrial pumps, motors and other equipment, has more than doubled its Lee’s Summit production facility and plans to add 31 new jobs over the next ... Read More

Missouri continues to invest in FinTech

Missouri-based companies SixThirty and Reinsurance Group of America are joining forces to further grow the region’s leadership in Financial Services and FinTech.   Read more in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and ... Read More

Missouri Unemployment Drops 1% Since September; Now 0.6% Below National Average

Missouri continues to lower its unemployment through growth in key sectors.   Missouri’s unemployment rate for January fell to 4.3 percent, the lowest it’s been since June 2001 and 0.6 percent ... Read More

Global business information company to expand workforce in St. Louis, creating 20 new jobs

Thomson Reuters, a major multinational business information and media firm, will expand its presence in St. Louis by adding 20 high-paying jobs to its Creve Coeur campus, which is currently home ... Read More

Missouri Companies Take 10% of Top 50 in 2016 Fortune Best Companies List

Edward Jones, Burns & McDonnell, Veterans United Home Loans, World Wide Technology, and Build-a-Bear all made the list. Five Missouri companies were listed in the top 50 in the 2016 Fortune ... Read More

Vernon County Becomes 25th Missouri Certified Work-Ready Community

With the certification Missouri now has 75 counties total that are actively participating in the CWRC initiative. If you ask any company what the most important resource for success is they ... Read More

CenturyLink to add jobs at new St. Louis development center

CenturyLink, the Louisiana-based cloud and IT services company, opened a new development center near its Town & Country-based co-location and hosting operations. The new 46,000-square-foot center, on the fourth floor of ... Read More

Anheuser-Busch: Made in Missouri

KSDK Newschannel 5 went behind the scenes to see what makes Missouri based Anheuser-Busch so successful  Anheuser-Busch was home grown in Missouri and today is the U.S. branch of Anheuser-Busch InBev. ... Read More