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A pizza chain that caught the attention of former President Barack Obama has shuttered its last remaining location, with the business now up for sale.

After years of apprenticing with candy makers across the country, Dan Abel Sr. returned to St Louis in 1981 to launch a candy store — Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company — with his wife, Rosalie. Today, the business is an award-winning second generation family business that specializes in handcrafted, small-batch chocolates. It is now run by Dan Abel Jr., Christina Abel, Christopher Abel and their parents, and includes seven retail stores and wholesale operations that supply 3,000 additional…

On July 1, the law firm of Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar in Salt Lake City announced it had hired seven lawyers, including four partners, from a big Clayton law firm. Days later, it said it was closing the Salt Lake City office and another.

Venture capital firm Cultivation Capital has launched a new agriculture technology investment fund.

One of the region’s largest car dealership groups is investing $30 million in a new location.

St. Louis County Library will open the $31.8 million branch Tuesday, July 9, with activities, tours and demonstrations in its creative lab.

The buildings lost several key tenants in recent years, but a marketing brochure positions that as a positive for a prospective buyer because it will be able to offer more available contiguous office space than its competitors.

The new dean of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's School of Business brings a background as an entrepreneur, professor and administrator.

The largest donors to a tax credit program supporting private school tuition scholarships in Missouri are a Fortune 500 health care corporation, a cable company and the founding family of the Kansas City Chiefs. UnitedHealth Group Inc. has given the most since 2023 to the state’s K-12 tax-credit scholarship program, dubbed MOScholars, with a $2 million donation last year and $3.5 million pledged this year. Lamar Hunt Jr. and his wife Rita Hunt, part of the family that owns the Kansas City Chiefs,…

Construction is expected to begin later this year on a stretch of the Brickline Greenway that connects with St. Louis City SC’s CityPark stadium.

In a groundbreaking partnership poised to stimulate economic development in St. Louis, Commerce Bank has donated its century-old branch on Natural Bridge Avenue to the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis. This significant contribution will facilitate the relocation and expansion of the Urban League's Women's Business Center, previously situated in Pagedale. The initiative marks the establishment of the 14th National Urban League-designated Entrepreneurship Center in the United States. John W.…

Saks Fifth Avenue's holding company has agreed to buy retail rival Neiman Marcus' parent in a $2.65 billion deal.

A May 2024 St. Louis Business Journal Roundtable of Experts brought together leaders in business, higher education and training/development to respond to recent research about workforce development for the region, and how their sectors could work together to make their offerings — and the region — more cohesive, connected and effective. The keys to future growth and success, they agreed, will be flexibility, practicality and collaboration to prepare students and support businesses. Participants…

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A former mayor of University City writes that there are important questions that need to be answered about the city's proposed deal to renovate two buildings.

A St. Louis-based visual arts nonprofit last week removed an artists-in-residence exhibition it said violated its DEI and other policies.

For the 10 public company executives with the largest year-over-year growth in total compensation, growth in pay was due primarily to one factor.

Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum has an NBA championship – and also a few dozen suits, some casual suit jackets and about 50 shirts from Darryl Tyler’s custom clothing shop in Clayton.

A St. Louis-based global marketing company that's one of the region's largest private companies has expanded with the acquisition of two businesses.

The announcement is an abrupt reversal for a law firm that has grown rapidly over the past six years.