Gitzell Fairtrade International, owned by Kenyan entrepreneur Zellipah Githui, is in the business of bringing colorful African decor, handbags and home goods to people all over the world.
Frisella Nursery and Landscape Group in Defiance, Missouri, has been providing the St. Louis community with beautiful, functional plants since 1953 when it was founded by Frank Frisella.
As the first Honda auto dealer in the Midwest, Frank Leta had a leg-up on the competition, something he has been able to maintain for decades thanks to his commitment and family spirit.
Albritton Financial Services has been helping executives and families since 1996. With four current staff members, two of whom are in the Albritton family, it serves no more than 120 clients in the St. Louis area and across the country.
Family businesses can lead to disappointment when the next generation isn’t interested in carrying on the tradition. But that is not the case with Andria’s Food Group, a restaurant and food production company in O’Fallon, Illinois.
Through its nearly 120-year history, 1905 New Media has maintained an upward growth trajectory in part through expanding into e-commerce, app/software development, SEO and data analytics spaces by acquiring creative agencies and media companies.
A St. Louis-based restaurant chain is now part of a new concept launched by a Kentucky restaurant group that acquired it earlier this year and plans to grow the business.
Legislation the Board of Aldermen passed in March – enabling applicants to get temporary liquor licenses to serve liquor as they work towards permanent ones – took effect Wednesday.
When Fenton-based Maritz posts its final revenue for the current fiscal year, it will be a mile-marker moment for the fourth-generation, family-owned marketing services company.
St. Louis can “break the mold and show the way forward” to end the argument that investing in downtown – which usually meant benefiting big companies and the amenities they wanted – will come at the expense of neighborhood needs, said Xavier de Souza Briggs, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro.
The Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge has reopened, days after a nearby fire forced its closure.
The Missouri Department of Transportation said the bridge reopened just before 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The bridge was closed in both directions starting Monday night after smoke from a vacant warehouse fire near the intersection of North Broadway and Mullanphy Street limited visibility. The bridge remained closed through the Wednesday morning rush while as the St. Louis Fire Department doused the flames…
A Chicago-based provider of print and digital billing and payment services is laying off 79 St. Louis-area employees and shuttering two local production facilities as it consolidates its operations.
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