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LaBarge lands $5M Black Hawk deal

LaBarge Inc. said Thursday it won a $5 million contract from Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. to produce wiring harnesses for the HH-60M Medevac helicopter, which is part of the Black Hawk helicopter ... Read More

St. Louis and Kansas City Make Top List for Business Growth

St. Louis and Kansas City have made MarketWatch’s “Top Cities for Business Growth” list. Twenty metrics were used to develop the rankings and were divided into three main groups looking at ... Read More

3M in Columbia to hire 120 employees

The Missouri Development Finance Board today approved an incentives package that will allow Columbia’s 3M plant to move forward with plans to add approximately 120 employees over the next three years. ... Read More

Four Missouri companies included in Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list

Four Missouri companies- Olin, Stifel Financial, Ralcorp Holdings, and Panera Bread are among the 100 Fastest Growing Companies according to Fortune. Olin (40th) was the top ranked Missouri company, followed by ... Read More

Downtown is becoming a tech hub

Once the heavy-duty electrical connections are completed, XIOLINK’s new headquarters will open as the latest example of information technology businesses that are expanding downtown. Relatively cheap electricity and the infrastructure needed ... Read More

10 Missouri companies included in the 2013 Fortune 500

The top-ranked Missouri company, Express Scripts, moved up to 24th from 60th. The state has ten companies on the list, nine of which are located in St. Louis. O’Reilly Automotive is ... Read More

Stretches of the Missouri, Mississippi become part of Marine Highway

Two new interstate corridors have been named in Missouri, but don’t try driving on the M-70 and M-55 unless you want to get wet. More ... Read More

Top global credit-rating agencies reaffirm Missouri’s AAA status

All three top global credit-rating agencies, Fitch Ratings, Moody’s, and Standard & Poor’s, have recently reaffirmed Missouri’s AAA credit rating. The ratings, which apply to general obligation bonds issued by the ... Read More

Leinco gets $1.5M incentives to stay here

Leinco Technologies Inc. has landed more than $1.5 million in incentives from Missouri and St. Louis County to expand into part of the former Chrysler supplier complex in Fenton instead ofmoving ... Read More

DED designates Fulton location as certified site

Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) Director David Kerr visited  Fulton today to officially designate a local site as the state’s fifth Certified Site. Chosen by DED’s Certified Site team, the ... Read More