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St. Louis-based Nestlé Purina PetCare Co. has provided funding to five startups as part of its annual pet care innovation contest.

St. Louis startup Clever Real Estate, which has created technology that connects home sellers and buyers to real estate agents, has acquired a local startup.

The St. Louis Business Journal has extended nomination deadlines for two 2024 awards programs: Best Places to Work and the Corporate Counsel Awards.

A jet was forced to land near Portland, Oregon, after a midair blowout that left a door-sized hole in the fuselage.

The bankruptcy filing by Audacy, which owns six St. Louis-area radio stations including KMOX, comes after it reached a restructuring deal with a “supermajority” of its debtholders, according to the company.

As the calendar turns to 2024, here’s a look at how six economic indicators look in St. Louis, how the metro compares nationally and where peer metros fit in. We also look at what Business Journal reporters are watching in 2024.

The 2023 KPMG U.S. CEO Outlook report is in, and CEOs are prioritizing investments in Generative AI and are hungry for transformational M&A opportunities to drive growth. In the current environment, CEOs realize it’s also mission critical to remain agile to respond to unforeseen challenges, including heightened geopolitical risk and ongoing economic uncertainty. These are the key takeaways from our CEO Outlook, which provides insights from over 1,300 CEOs globally, including 400 in the United…

A lot has been said about what Generative AI tools can and cannot do. The bottom line: these tools will have a pivotal role and businesses stand to gain from implementing them. In the interim period, where do leaders stand on this emerging, transformative technology? What are the opportunities and risks? More importantly, what is the roadmap that businesses should follow? To better understand how business and technology leaders are thinking about Generative AI, in March 2023 KPMG surveyed 300 global…

Drumroll, please. The best navigators of digital transformations are tech firms. Approximately 7 in 10 leaders of tech companies are confident about using their existing technologies to grow, boost efficiency and turn risk into opportunity. In terms of confidence with one criteria, data and analytics, technology companies scored 61 percent compared to 49 percent for all other companies. This is from the 2023 KPMG US Technology Sector Insights Report, which provides insights from U.S.-based IT executives…

The tax department is on the cusp of a major transformation. Whatever the issue that tax faces — responding to constantly changing regulations, increasing ESG pressures, hiring talent or predicting the next big business decision — the underlying solution lies with technology and innovation. The KPMG 2023 Tax Reimagined: Perspectives from the C-suite report, which surveyed 500 C-suite executives at companies generating an annual revenue of $1 billion or more, uncovered that with smarter-than-ever-technology…

The company signed an office lease to occupy 41,000 square feet in downtown Clayton.

Good Company, a new cocktail bar and restaurant, will open this spring in the former home of Layla in The Grove.

Local musician Trammel Horton plans to open Moshmellow at 3359 S. Jefferson Ave., in the city’s Benton Park West neighborhood, likely by late February or early March.

Washington University is hiring a law professor from Arizona as its new law school dean.

YWCA Metro St. Louis, a nonprofit human services agency and women's advocacy group, has hired a new chief economic inclusion officer.

When the bank developed plans to add an amenity for its employees at its new office tower at 8001 Forsyth Blvd., Julie Keane’s business was a natural choice, said Chuck Kim, chief financial officer and executive vice president of Commerce Bank’s holding company.

Creve Coeur agriculture firm NewLeaf Symbiotics expects $45 million in fresh funding to position it for a “huge milestone”: profitable operations.

The ideas range from grant money to incentivize businesses to move downtown to subsidizing child care for city residents to funding improvements to water treatment plants.

Series Six, a local apparel company specializing in St. Louis-inspired designs, on Saturday will open its new retail store at 3719 Watson Road in the city’s Lindenwood Park neighborhood.

City employees in St. Louis are recommended to mask up when working indoors due to an increase in respiratory virus cases in the region, the health department said Friday afternoon, after previously saying that masks were required. Gov. Mike Parson's office confirmed to KSDK it had a conversation with Jones' office on Friday related to the city's mask policy shift. In the earlier statement, St. Louis Director of Health Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis said the new rule took effect Friday and requires…