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Salt + Smoke, which last Friday opened its fifth location in Ellisville, has signed a lease for its sixth location.

NorthSide strongly opposed the move, passed unanimously last month by aldermen, and indicated it could sue.

The deadline to submit a nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's 2024 Business of Pride Awards, now in its fourth year, is just one week away. Recognize and celebrate outstanding LGBTQIA+ business leaders and companies that are advocating for inclusion and equality. Submit your nomination before the March 14 deadline here. In addition, the Business Journal again hopes to recognize those who are not members of the LGBTQIA+ community, but allies leading their teams with an inclusive lens that…

Speaker Dean Plocher’s attorney sought to attend a closed-door hearing of the Missouri House Ethics Committee on Wednesday night, arguing he should be allowed to stay in order to listen to the panel review a report detailing the investigation of his client. Lowell Pearson, a veteran Republican attorney, was informed by the committee’s chair – Republican Rep. Hannah Kelly of Mountain Grove – that House rules require proceedings of the ethics committee to be confidential, with none of the…

United Steelworkers is "actively engaged" with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to help block the proposed $14.9 billion acquisition of United States Steel Corp. by Nippon Steel Corp.

Data from Explore St. Louis shows that four out of five out-of-town convention visitors enjoyed St. Louis.

Law firm Brown and Crouppen is fully moved into its new $15.5 million historic factory-turned-office on The Hill, which blends historic elements with a modern, whimsical office space.

C2N Diagnostics LLC, a St. Louis-based biotechnology firm that has created a blood test designed to help doctors detect Alzheimer's disease, has secured funding from a Japanese pharmaceutical company.

After coming across actuarial tables in the IRS regulations, Lawrence Katzenstein decided to turn what he considered a hobby – and still does – into a side business.

Novus International, a Chesterfield-based animal feed additive and nutrition company, has acquired Durham, North Carolina-based BioResource International Inc.

Sky Marketing Consultants LLC, a St. Louis-based boutique marketing consultancy, has been acquired by a growing Chicago firm.

The closure is part of the company's previously announced plan to close around 900 stores, or about 10% of its U.S. locations, between 2022 and 2024.

If you pay to check your luggage on Delta flights, you'll soon be paying more.

Bluebird Network, a communications infrastructure provider and data center operator based in south St. Louis County, has named Jason Adkins as CEO.

Doug Fabick departed as CEO and dealer principal in March 2022, replaced by Jeré Fabick, Doug Fabick's cousin.

Workers who assemble cylinder heads at a Toyota plant in Lincoln County have begun a campaign to join the United Auto Workers union.

Teachers and staff at St. Louis Public Schools will receive their largest pay increase in nearly two decades after a new union contract was agreed on with the district. The contract that was approved Tuesday evening by the St. Louis Board of Education will give teachers a 17% pay increase over the next three years, starting with a 7% hike in fiscal 2025 and additional 5% increases each of the following two years. Special education teachers will see a 22% increase over three years, beginning with…

Members of the Teamsters union working at Anheuser-Busch voted Tuesday to ratify a new five-year contract with the company, officials said.

Big companies may pay a ransom to recover from cyberattacks, Reuters notes, though they generally don't acknowledge it publicly.

The owner of a prominent shopping center has put it up for sale.