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A former bank headquarters building in downtown St. Louis is for sale following the bank’s acquisition.

St. Louis Alderman Bret Narayan and investors in his cannabis business are headed toward a settlement of their legal dispute.

The combined revenue of the top 10 companies on the Largest Privately Held Companies List for 2023 makes up 62% of the total combined revenue for all the firms listed. Check out more data on all 150 companies on this year's list in graphics.

The St. Louis region's 50 fastest-growing private companies this year had average growth of 113%. Check out the two-year growth rate of each company.

St. Louis-based startup Inclusively, which has developed software to help employers manage staff with workplace accommodations, has raised $13 million to deploy a new technology platform it has launched.

Robert Vitale, chief executive of Brentwood-based Post Holdings Inc. (NYSE: POST), will undergo cancer treatment, he said Friday during the company’s fourth-quarter and fiscal year earnings call.

A St. Louis apartment developer whose project was recently the subject of a federal subpoena has dropped a plan to build apartments at a Central West End site.

A St. Louis-based multistate health system has reached an agreement to expand its relationship with a southeast Missouri health organization.

The law firm's 2024 partner class consists of 53% women, 16% racial and ethnic minorities, and 26% LGBTQ+, officials said.

Secretary of State Jay Aschcroft will try again to salvage the ballot summary he wrote for abortion rights initiative petitions with an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Ashcroft’s language has been savaged in opinions from two courts, most recently when the Western District Court of Appeals ruled his summaries are “replete with politically partisan language.” In a Thursday interview with The Independent, Ashcroft said notice will be filed with the state’s highest court seeking a review…

A provider of electronic health care records plans to lay off 84 of the workers at a St. Louis-area office following the company's recent sale to a private equity firm.

We are presently being bombarded by such an atmosphere of bullying that we almost do not have a response, except to either hide or finally confront.

When officials from Spiegelglass Construction tell new clients the year the Maryland Heights-based construction firm was founded, they know the reaction will usually be an interesting one. It’s understandable — since it can be unusual to hear that a company has been operating continuously since 1904. “You can see it on their face that it’s something they just don’t hear very often,” said Tim Spiegelglass, president of the firm and the fourth-generation leader of the longtime family construction…

The Boeing Co. is donating $4 million to 38 nonprofit organizations in the St. Louis area, with a focus on the Ferguson-Florissant, Riverview Gardens and East St. Louis areas.

The St. Louis region's 50 fastest-growing private companies this year range from 59.4% growth to nearly 400% growth.

“Growth is something that can be managed really well and you have different strategies with it,” Bowles told reporter Nathan Rubbelke. “You’re coming out of a period where many, many companies — including us — were in a growth at all cost (mindset) and now you switch strategies to growth responsibly, which is very different.”

The region's fastest-growing private company built its success off making home sales more efficient. But now that the market's cooled, it's shifted its focus onto a new part of the transaction process.

Many of the top 10 companies on the Business Journal's List of St. Louis' Largest Privately Held Companies have been dominant for years. Their combined revenue makes up 62% of the total revenue of all 150 companies on the List.

The state’s Division of Cannabis Regulation is revoking the marijuana manufacturing license of Delta Extraction after accusing the company of illegally importing “marijuana product” from out-of-state and adding it to Missouri-grown marijuana products. The revocation will take effect on Dec. 2. The Robertsville-based company is at the center of Missouri’s massive marijuana recall that was issued on Aug. 14. The state recently rolled back part of the recall, but the fate of more than 45,000…

The federal lawsuit alleges that barring gender-affirming care to minors is discriminatory.