The 38 local firms that ranked on the Inc. 5000 list this year included manufacturing, retail, marketing, financial services and energy companies, with growth from 81% to more than 1,000%.
In 2013, while six months pregnant, Julie Douglas lost her job with a technology company. She didn’t wallow in her circumstances. She instead decided to get into business herself, launching Dealer Pay LLC, a provider of payments and point-of-sale software for automobile dealerships. The company is now poised for major growth, after being acquired earlier this month.
A Mexican restaurant in Florissant has closed its doors for good — just four months after opening, according to a post on its Facebook page. The restaurant opened its doors at 3407 Dunn Road in April.
Funds raised in Saint Louis University's comprehensive fundraising effort, launched publicly in 2018, were targeted to support SLU initiatives in academic excellence, scholarships, health sciences, athletics and business education.
The aide to Mayor Tishaura Jones had been hired last year as director of policy and development. He's now moving to a position in which he'll oversee housing development.
Starbucks says a National Labor Relations Board employee has evidence that others at the federal agency's St. Louis office attempted to "tip the scales" in a union election.
St. Louis County is paying extra to store bodies at funeral homes and in a trailer outside the County Medical Examiner’s Office. Some county officials are trying to get money to fix this issue.
County Executive Sam Page called on the County Council to let them use $300,000 of federal pandemic money as a solution.
They want this money to look into the practicality of replacing the health center and the medical examiner’s building. This storage problem has been an issue for years.
The Medical…
Metro Transit is estimating it will be several months before it can fully restore service on its red and blue lines in St. Louis and St. Louis County following last month's historic flooding.
Metro released an update Tuesday on its efforts to restore MetroLink to normal service after the flooding caused millions in estimated damage.
"We know you are tired of having to catch bus shuttles so you can transfer between the blue line and the red line," the organization said in an update posted to its…
St. Louis is an interesting place with unusual challenges.
I'm not breaking any news here, of course. It can also be a frustrating place that stumbles when taking a step forward. It's also remarkable place with unlimited potential. Hard to find anyone who will deny any of those points.
But part of what makes this region so unusual is in how it's structured. You all know this already, but let me repeat it for the few of you don't: Our biggest population center, St. Louis County, includes 91 different…
Business group Greater St. Louis Inc. is hiring a new business attraction chief from the Charlotte area. He says St. Louis should focus on poaching companies from the high-cost coasts, particularly in areas like financial technology.
A $1.2 billion mixed-use proposal to redevelop an industrial district on the downtown St. Louis riverfront, south of the Gateway Arch, has been in the works for more than five years. That effort began when brokers gauged owners' interest in selling their Chouteau's Landing properties.
James T. Minor, who took over as chancellor in March, said the university has to be intentional in making its presence seen more widely in its home city of Edwardsville and across the Metro East. Here's how he plans to do it.
AltonWorks, which is targeting projects to restore downtown Alton, said Monday it plans to establish the Wedge Innovation Center. The facility, which is described as an incubator and co-working space for startups and later stage companies, will be located in the Wedge and Elfgen buildings that span the 600 block of East Broadway in downtown Alton.
One of the St. Louis region's largest engineering firms is combining with a California-based global engineering and consulting firm to form a new business.
Rebekah A. Freese, MSW, LCSW, Ph.D., who recently joined Alsana as its senior regional executive director, specializes in eating disorder and behavioral health care in St. Louis. Alsana, a national eating recovery community and treatment provider with three locations in St. Louis, has the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for its eating disorder programming.
Freese brings more than two decades of professional mental health care experience, service and innovation to the Alsana team, demonstrating…
One of the St. Louis region's largest health systems has hired an experienced administrator from Texas as its next senior vice president and system chief nurse executive.
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