All posts by : Janelle Higgins

Missouri’s Monsanto & Bayer To Create 3,000+ Agtech Jobs

Missouri-based agtech company Monsanto Co. and Bayer AG announced in a joint statement their plans to spend $16 billion on research and development over the next six years. In addition to ... Read More

Virgin Mobile Finds Home In Missouri, Plans 100 New Jobs

Virgin Mobile has announced the signing of a long-term lease in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and plans to hire 100 new employees. In July of last year Virgin Mobile announced the ... Read More

Colombian Agtech Company Uses Missouri as US Launch Point

Two years ago next month, Claudia Barona and Andrés Benavides moved 2,500 miles to pursue their entrepreneurial dream – expanding their company Lifepack into the US market. Thanks to Missouri programs ... Read More

Charter Communications Continues To Grow In Missouri

Charter Communications announced they will be adding 75 new jobs at the company’s Bridgeton, Missouri, Customer Care Center. This comes less than two months after the company announced an additional 100 ... Read More

Missouri’s New Governor Freezes All New Regulations

Yesterday, Missouri’s new governor Eric Greitens signed an executive order putting a temporary freeze on all new government regulations. Gov. Greitens broadcast the signing on Facebook Live surrounded by boxes and ... Read More

Foreign Trade Zones Boost Missouri Economy

Missouri is home to many global companies that take advantage of the Show-Me-State’s ability to get their goods anywhere in the world via our three Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs). Spread across ... Read More

Health Innovation Company Expands In Missouri, Adds 52 Jobs

BlueStrata EHR, an electronic health record systems provider, is expanding in Creve Coeur, Missouri. The expansion represents more than $138,000 in investment and is expected to add 52 new, high-paying jobs ... Read More

Missouri’s Monsanto Investing $1.5B in Agtech Research in 2017

“We are very clearly entering a new era in agriculture,” Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant said on January 5. Fifteen years ago, Monsanto Co., a global agtech company focused on delivering agricultural ... Read More

Leading Custom Cabinet Company Selects Missouri For New Design Center

CliqStudios, the nation’s largest online retailer of semi-custom kitchen cabinets based on revenue, has selected St. Louis, Missouri as the site for its new cabinet design center. The $1.95 million investment ... Read More

Missouri Agtech Company Creating Year Round Revenue Stream for Farmers

Missouri-based agtech company Arvegenix is finding innovative new ways to help Missouri farmers make money and maintain productivity during the offseason. The company is a leading developer of Field Pennycress that ... Read More