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The St. Louis-based pet food maker bought two Atlanta-area manufacturing facilities that it previously operated from under a long-term lease.

Tourism agency Explore St. Louis is seeking $20 million more from the city of St. Louis for work on the expansion of the America's Center tourism complex downtown.

The 29 Major League Soccer clubs combined are worth an estimated $19.7 billion, according to the report by sports business publication Sportico. Here's where St. Louis City SC ranks.

The Boulder, Colorado-based fast-casual restaurant chain is known for its meals in a bowl, crafted from fruit, topped with granola and honey and blended with protein, vitamins and other ingredients.

A whistleblower alleges Boeing is to blame for the door plug issues on an Alaska Airlines jet.

TierPoint, a St. Louis-based information technology services provider, has hired a new executive to lead its sales operations.

United States Steel Corp. in a regulatory filing previewed its case for approval by shareholders in a special meeting coming sometime this year.

The feds said Wednesday they'd indicted an ex-professional basketball player for pandemic loan fraud.

To lead its first office location outside St. Louis, the commercial real estate firm has hired a veteran executive whose led growth initiatives for multiple retail chains.

Legislation seeking to create a “parents bill of rights” in Missouri was amended in committee Tuesday morning to add prohibitions on transgender students accessing restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. A House hearing on standalone bills that sought to regulate school bathrooms took up the majority of a nearly nine-hour meeting last week. Missourians haven’t had a chance to testify on bathroom restrictions in the Senate this year, a fact that irked Democrats…

Audiences love to be surprised, and the fact that so little is known about St. Louis means we have an audience poised to be surprised, writes the leader of the Missouri Historical Society.

Ronald Kruszewski, chairman and CEO of St. Louis-based Stifel, noted that last year was a “less than ideal” operating environment, with “increased geopolitical risks, tightening of financial conditions primarily due to significant increases in short-term (interest rates)..."

A trio of restaurateurs, two restaurants, two chefs and a bakery are among the St. Louis-area honorees named Wednesday as semifinalists for the 2024 James Beard Foundation Awards, the top prize of the culinary world.

Staffing agencies – a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans – are not exempt from the state’s antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled late last week. The decision comes three and a half years after state Attorney General Kwame Raoul sued a trio of staffing agencies, alleging they used their mutual client to coordinate no-poach agreements, which created a secondary agreement to pay temp staffers less than the market rate. In a unanimous 20-page opinion published…

The Republican civil war in the Missouri Senate reached a new crescendo of strife Tuesday, when Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden stripped four members of their committee chairs and declared he was acting against “a small group of swamp creatures.” The action toward members of the newly formed Freedom Caucus took away traditional prerogatives of senior legislators and even relegated the targeted four to parking spots as far from the Missouri Capitol building as possible. Rowden said he…

Republican lawmakers’ latest attempt to change Missouri’s century-old initiative petition process was met with widespread opposition Tuesday. Hanging over the proceedings, though hardly discussed on Tuesday, were a pair of initiative petition campaigns seeking to put an amendment on the statewide ballot rolling back Missouri near-total ban on abortion. One of the campaigns has already reported raising $2 million to bankroll its efforts, amplifying the sense of GOP urgency to get changes to…

The company, which operates a food stall at the City Foundry STL Food Hall in Midtown and sells its cheesecakes in Dierbergs Markets and Fresh Thyme Market grocery stores, has grown substantially since its founding and has its sights set on further expansion in 2024.

St. Louis' development chief said Tuesday that Clayco's pitch to consolidate a concrete operation and headquarters at a North City site not only didn't fulfill the requirements of a request for proposals, but didn't show evidence of community engagement.

A new operator said that although he shut down remaining food operations six to eight weeks ago, he plans to reopen the store.

Stofan Agazzi Investments was previously affiliated with LPL Financial and has moved to St. Louis-based Stifel Independent Advisors LLC with its seven advisers and $650 million in client assets.