Missouri Department of Economic Development Director David Kerr announced yesterday that the state designated a 107-acre tract of land in northeast Columbia as a “certified site,” which bills land as ready ... Read More
Emerson Network Power announced it will deliver data center infrastrcture management solutions and cooling and power technologies to leading IT solutions and services provider Datacraft for six Internet data centers in ... Read More
Monsanto Co. said Tuesday it entered into an agreement for a multi-year collaboration with Sapphire Energy Inc. to leverage Sapphire’s algae research to discover genes that could be applied to agriculture. ... Read More
Frontier Airlines will offer nonstop flights between Kansas City and two new cities starting in June, the carrier announced Wednesday. Frontier, which has a hub at Kansas City International Airport (Code: MCI), will have 16 nonstop destinations from the airport with the additions of Minneapolis/St. Paul and San Antonio, which has no direct service from KCI. ... Read More
After steady growth in December and January, U.S. manufacturing expanded in February at the fastest pace since mid-2004, signaling that the factory sector continues to lead the economic recovery. Business activity ... Read More
Toyota said Friday that two of its Bodine Aluminum plants, in Missouri and Tennessee, would add 20 new jobs as part of an $8.4 million investment to support expanded production of ... Read More
Boeing has won the $35 billion contract for 179 Air Force tankers, capping a decade of maneuvering between the world’s two largest aircraft builders, as well as between the governments of ... Read More
General Electric Co. and Siemens AG are preparing to release their own lines of electric-car charging stations, injecting big-name competition into a nascent business now dominated by little known start-ups. GE ... Read More
Washington University and Truman State University made the Princeton Review and USA Today’s “100 Best Value Colleges for 2011.” List organizers said they tried to pick the schools that give students ... Read More
Randy Moore “People here have an excellent work ethic. And there’s a sense of extended family in the area. It’s feels like a wholesome, down home country atmosphere with the amenities ... Read More