Virginia-based government contractor Serco Inc. will hire 600 people over the next three months for a processing center in Wentzville, handling applications for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Serco closed a deal last week to lease much of the old US Fidelis call center in Wentzville, a St. Charles County town about 40 miles from St. Louis. The center is expected to be operational by Nov. 1.
One of the region’s biggest biotech research institutes is beefing up its roster again. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will announce today that it is hiring four new principal investigators, ... Read More
Holman Boiler Works, Inc., the nation’s largest full-service boiler solutions provider, has signed a commercial property lease to expand operations to 14,000-square-foot at its current Fenton, Mo. facility in Greater St. ... Read More
Kansas City Power & Light Co. announced that it intends to expand two of its energy-efficiency programs, one of which doubles its wind-generating capacity to serve 124,000 homes. Under the other ... Read More
Forest Laboratories Inc. agreed to buy specialty pharmaceutical company Aptalis Holdings Inc. for $2.9 billion in cash. Private-equity firm TPG purchased Aptalis, at the time called Axcan Pharma Inc., in 2008 ... Read More
The City of Fountains ranks among the top 10 most promising tech hubs of 2014, according to the Web magazine Techie.com. Kansas City earned the recognition not only for a burgeoning ... Read More
A Smithfield Foods subsidiary on Monday announced a $100 million joint venture to turn hog manure into energy at its farms in northern Missouri. Murphy-Brown of Missouri, formerly called Premium Standards ... Read More
The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) today announced that Air Medical Group Holdings, (AMGH) a leading provider of air medical services, is expanding its West Plains operations. The project includes ... Read More
Three Missouri bank companies again are among the top 25 on Forbes’ list of best banks. Commerce Bancshares ranked 10th on the 2014 list; UMB Financial ranked 16th; and Central Bancompany, ... Read More
The Missouri Department of Economic Development today announced that Salon Service Group, a distributor of professional salon products, will be expanding their operations in Springfield. The project includes a $4,175,000 capital ... Read More
The Missouri Department of Economic Development announced today that BIME Analytics, a France-based business intelligence technology company, will open its new North American headquarters in Kansas City. The company is investing ... Read More