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Compass Group Equity Partners, a Clayton-based private equity firm, has closed on a new $408 million investment fund.

Spry Digital, a Clayton-based web development and digital design firm, has named Wayne Turley II as its president and chief operating officer.

Bold Spoon Creamery recently secured two grants totaling $150,000.

These 75 companies donated a total of $149 million last year in the St. Louis area, a 6% increase from giving in 2022.

A Colorado businessman says he invested in St. Louis developer Green Street's Union at the Grove apartment project, but hasn't been paid what he's owed.

Two of the largest foundations in St. Louis have new priorities, but their leaders stressed Thursday that it requires patience to make a major impact on the region’s challenges.

(The Center Square) – While Illinois looks at tax credits for gifting endowments, student loans, hiring journalists and music companies, Missouri is looking at phasing out not just tax credits but also its corporate income tax. Not among the slew of tax credits the Illinois Senate is reviewing is the Invest in Kids school choice scholarship tax credit, which expired at the end of 2023. There’s been no public discussion about revisiting the program. Illinois state Rep. Blaine Wilhour, R-Beecher…

The 75 honorees featured on the St. Louis Business Journal’s Biggest Corporate Philanthropists Lists invested nearly $150 million in St. Louis communities in 2023.

Ramsay’s Kitchen by Gordon Ramsay is opening at the Four Seasons Hotel at 999 N. Second St. in downtown St. Louis.

In 2023, Boggs, Avellino, Lach & Boggs LLC had the highest cash giving as a percent of total revenue, with 8% of the firm's $6.4 million revenue given to various St. Louis-area organizations.

Edward Jones, with more than 5,400 local employees and $14.08 billion in 2023 revenue, gave $21.04 million in cash and in-kind donations to local organizations last year.

Schnuck Markets, the St. Louis-based, family-owned grocery chain, donated $16 million in local cash and in-kind donations in 2023, up from the $15.34 million donated in 2022.

Emerson, with 800 local employees, contributed $15.1 million in cash and in-kind donations to the St. Louis region in 2023.

Thompson Coburn contributed more than $3.1 million in cash and in-kind giving in the St. Louis region in 2023.

Chemical manufacturer FSI, with 94 local employees, contributed $740,000 in cash and in-kind donations in the St. Louis region last year.

Brinkmann Constructors, with local employment of 248, contributed more than $940,000 in cash and in-kind giving in the St. Louis region in 2023.

The official succeeds William Johnson.

Litigation targeted the business as a nuisance property that attracts crime.

A local health care system has purchased the former headquarters of Panera Bread.

Town and Country-based digital consultancy Perficient Inc. has inked a sponsorship agreement with a professional golfer, saying the deal will help boost its international exposure.