The Missouri Development Finance Board approved $6.2 million in tax-exempt bonds Tuesday for an $8.25 million expansion at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Creve Coeur. The expansion is expected ... Read More
Touton USA, a French commodity trader, plans to put its North American headquarters in Kansas City, creating 21 executive jobs. The company will open its office at 11500 N. Ambassador Drive ... Read More
Brown Shoe Co. bought American Sporting Goods Corp. for $145 million, the St. Louis Business Journal reports. ... 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
The deal, valued at $1.2 billion, will help Forest Labs replace sales of the antidepressant drug Lexapro, which loses patent protection next year ... 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
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
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
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
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