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A St. Louis-area barbecue restaurant that announced on Facebook that it is closing one of its locations now says the closure is only temporary.

The St. Louis Business Journal has opened up the nomination process for the 2025 Best Places to Work Awards program. If your company is among the best places to work in St. Louis, submit your nomination for our annual program. Applying for this awards program is a two-part process: First, fill out the Best Places to Work Awards nomination form found here. You'll then receive further instructions from our third-party surveyor, Quantum Workplace, on how to proceed with the online, anonymous and confidential…

As consumers continue to swap their cash and paper checks for digital payments, businesses are taking note. Convenience, speed and security are driving the use of digital payments across all categories: online, inside a mobile app, through a peer-to-peer payment platform, and in-store via a digital wallet. They have become so ubiquitous that more than 90% of consumers said they used some form of digital payment over the course of a year, according to McKinsey’s 2023 Digital Payments Consumer Survey.…

A new tenant is moving into the mostly-empty Centene campus in Natomas, California, next year.

The Clayton-based footwear retailer announced a restructuring that will affect St. Louis-area jobs as it reported lower quarterly sales and cut its fiscal 2024 outlook.

Many in the law enforcement community are upset and cutting ties with local fitness entrepreneur Andy Frisella. Frisella is the co-founder of 1st Phorm, a St. Louis supplement and fitness company. He's on damage control after these comments he made during his podcast episode that came out on National Police Woman Day. “In my opinion, women shouldn't be in the f****** field and police officers," Frisella said in his podcast. "I just don't think they should be. Every woman cop I've ever dealt with,…

"St. Louisans know better than most that when neighborhoods don't receive the investment and opportunities that residents deserve, those neighborhoods will eventually decline," Mayor Tishaura Jones said.s

Fast-growing companies encounter many challenges, from securing funding to creating marketing strategies, to making the most of emerging technologies. But entrepreneurs believe there’s always potential to achieve growth in any environment. Jamie Siminoff is familiar with these obstacles, as he tackled them on his path to selling his doorbell company Ring to Amazon in 2018 for $1 billion. Siminoff was part of a slate of local executives and visionaries who shared insights with St. Louis business…

In an interview Friday during his visit to St. Louis, Bayer AG CEO Bill Anderson outlined how the German agricultural-chemical conglomerate will attempt to remove what he called the "existential threat" from Roundup lawsuits.

El Indio Hampton, one of several Mexican restaurants located along Hampton Avenue in south St. Louis, has closed.

The issue that triggered the CMS suspension, which starts Jan. 1, revolves around WellCare of Missouri’s medical loss ratio. CMS requires Medicare Advantage plans to spend a minimum of 85% of the funds they receive on patient care and quality improvement.

The St. Louis-based toy retailer hired an executive with nearly 20 years of experience in the toy, consumer products and entertainment industries as its new chief revenue officer.

A 160-acre farm in the Jefferson City area has acquired a St. Louis local food distributor that works with 100 local farms within a 175-mile radius of St. Louis in both Missouri and Illinois.

The principals of embattled St. Louis developer Green Street are facing more litigation.

The deal comes a few months after the company defaulted on a different Clayton office building it owned.

The cities of O’Fallon and St. Charles in Missouri are coming together to build and operate law enforcement training center. Construction of a new $24 million law enforcement training center is already underway in O'Fallon. “What I like about it is this was designed by police officers, for police officers, the elected officials, had nothing to do with it,” O’Fallon Mayor Bill Hennessy said. O'Fallon Police Chief Frank Mininni said it's not just for their officers. Thursday, they signed…

A St. Louis-based amusement company that seeks to create a "waterless water park" experience has its sights set on Columbus, Ohio.

The St. Louis Business Journal on Thursday celebrated the winners of the Champions for Diversity & Inclusion Awards for 2024 with a luncheon at the Bayer Event Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The reason that our trips extend to 11 to 12 hours, versus the possible 10 hours or less, is that over the decades, I have found certain restaurants to stop at.

The Jefferson County Port Authority has purchased 18 riverfront acres from an existing port for a publicly owned terminal facility in Herculaneum.