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The quickly growing bakery and café chain — with its U.S. operations based in New Jersey — will open its first store in the St. Louis region next summer.

Copeland, the climate technologies business recently spun out of Ferguson-based Emerson Electric Co., has again added to its C-suite as it builds out operation as a standalone company.

Nurses at three other Ascension-owned hospitals across the country have unionized and gone on strike in recent months.

Fiber broadband is spreading across the country like a rapidly expanding network of tree roots, passing under more communities every day. Fiber providers reached 7.9 million additional homes in the U.S. in 2022 — the highest annual deployment ever, according to the Fiber Broadband Association’s most recent survey of providers. There are now 68 million fiber broadband passings in the U.S., 13% more than a year ago and 27% more than two years prior. The association expects even higher levels…

The Serving Our Communities Foundation on Tuesday launched the Food City project to help create a more inclusive, sustainable food ecosystem in the St. Louis area, according to a news release. The project serves budding food entrepreneurs, farmers, food policy and direct service organizers, educational institutions, social enterprises and nonprofit initiatives. Serving Our Communities is a foundation and social enterprise launched by the Marson family. In 2020, the Marson family sold their company,…

SoutheastHEALTH, a health system based in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has signed an agreement to become part of Chesterfield-based Mercy's health system, the organizations announced Tuesday.

The sale of the company's assets comes after the St. Louis County Circuit Court last year put the company in receivership, following a lawsuit brought by one of its investors.

The Maryland Heights-based brewer is looking for solutions to get through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, with officials saying the “optimal solution” would be to sell the building and brewery collectively to the same buyer.

A Metro East bakery that closed last month has been reopened under new ownership.

Demolition is continuing for a pair of office buildings at a prominent Downtown West corner, which will make way for a new $120 million development with two hotels.

Defender Pharmaceuticals said Monday it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to develop and commercialize eight vaccines for tropical diseases.

In April, Quarles & Brady announced it had hired Sarah Sise as a partner in the Labor, Employment & Benefits Practice Group. Like Travis Kearbey, she previously was a partner at Armstrong Teasdale and is working remotely for Quarles from her St. Louis area residence.

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging an Iowa newspaper publisher violated customers’ privacy rights through information sharing with Facebook. The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises (Nasdaq: LEE), owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ personal information, including the videos they watch on Lee websites, with Facebook in violation of federal law. Lee had sought to have the case dismissed,…

One-third of Missouri’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing, according to a report using newly-updated federal data. A July report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, a national policy group, found that 19 of Missouri’s 57 rural hospitals are at risk of shuttering because of “serious financial problems.” Many of those hospitals at risk of closure could sustain themselves financially for six to seven years, according to the report. Eight rural hospitals, however,…

The layoffs, which took effect Monday, marked an abrupt reversal at the firm, which has roughly doubled in size over the past five years by adding offices.

On Monday evening, the St. Charles County Council made the decision to table a massive project. It's a proposed subdivision off Highway DD that's caused some conflict. The developer KM Investment Group IV proposed a plan to build a subdivision, called Tall Tree, in unincorporated St. Charles County, initially proposing 556 houses on a 356-acre site. KM later reduced its proposal to 452 homes across 298 acres. The homes closest together will be near Frontier Middle School and get farther apart…

The Archdiocese of St. Louis announced Monday that it would be suspending the mergers of several parishes that are appealing their closures to the Vatican. The "All Things New" restructuring plan goes into effect Tuesday, Aug. 1 and consolidates 178 parishes into 134. The plan includes merging 35 parishes into neighboring parishes and merging 15 parishes to create five new parishes. It will also reassign 158 priests. Those mergers are now being suspended for several parishes that are appealing…

One of the St. Louis region’s largest marijuana firms is acquiring another local cannabis business in a deal its CEO said is the largest single acquisition in Missouri's cannabis market.

As a business owner, it may seem counterintuitive that when your employees create inventions related to your business, in addition to not automatically owning them, you might not even have the right to use them. This is because in the U.S., the general rule is that inventions are owned by their creator. This concept is embodied in patent law where, absent a written agreement to the contrary, the inventor of a patent is the owner. The simple solution to this issue is to have employees sign employment…

St. Louis Community College and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have developed a program that paves the way for high school students to enter the biotechnology field. EMBARK is a dual credit/dual enrollment program that enables high school students to earn a life science lab assistant certificate by high school graduation. Students who graduate from the program are prepared for work in bioscience laboratories and are well positioned to continue studies to complete bioscience and biotechnology…