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The rising costs of goods and labor, combined with supply chain constraints, are forcing St. Louis restaurant owners to change how they do business and grapple with a key question: How much profit are they willing to lose?

The local company is one of more than 75 firms sponsoring World Wide Technology Raceway as it holds its first-ever NASCAR Cup Series race this weekend. Here's a look at it, and two other firms, are putting their brands in front of NASCAR fans.

After 34 years with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, Blue Arrow President Dan Howard made the unlikely move from law enforcement to the cannabis industry.

Federal authorities on Thursday indicted St. Louis' legislative leader, Lewis Reed, on corruption charges, a significant development that could upend the Board of Aldermen and city politics.

The St. Louis Business Journal has, for the ninth year, partnered with the Association of Corporate Counsel — St. Louis chapter to select the top in-house counsel for our annual Corporate Counsel Awards program. Meet this year's class of winners here.

The St. Louis-based janitorial services giant plans to add an additional 40 employees at the San Antonio business.

Sunday's NASCAR Enjoy Illinois 300 Cup Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway has sold out. The Madison, Illinois, raceway's 57,000 seat grandstands, 1,200-plus campsites and dozens of hospitality suite areas will all be full on race day, according to a release from the track. The June 5 race, which begins at 2:30 p.m. Central Time, is the raceway's first sellout and its largest single-day crowd ever. “We knew our fans were hungry for a NASCAR Cup Series race and the response since the…

A Missouri manufacturer said sales staff and customers have become “numb” to price increases.

St. Louis civic and business leaders on Wednesday welcomed — then boarded — a nonstop Frankfurt, Germany, flight, the first such route from St. Louis Lambert International Airport to continental Europe in more than 20 years.

Planning is underway for a $200 million redevelopment of a site near the Saint Louis Galleria mall. It's not the first time developers have proposed projects for the site.

The groups spearheading an initiative to restore Normandie Golf Club have assumed ownership of the public golf course, a milestone expected to advance construction and fundraising for the $15 million project.

A class action settlement has been reached following the seven-year debate about the guardrail end terminals on Missouri's roads.

The fund was launched with men who own a property management business that's headquartered in St. Louis and Dallas.

The software deal will expand Cass Information Services' focus on providing information technology and banking services for faith-based groups.

It’s the fifth purchase by Buckingham since May 2021 and the eighth since late 2020, including firms in North Carolina, Michigan, Florida and Oregon.

Recruited from Florida, the new dean of Wash U's University College is charged with boosting the school's engagement with local employers who have immediate workforce needs. He's done it before.

The Santa Clara, California-based cybersecurity firm recently opened a new office in Clayton, with plans to add to its local workforce.

U.S. Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver, both Missouri Democrats, are pressing executives of GKN Aerospace to answer questions about the U.K.-based company's plans to close its Hazelwood plant next year, and how the jobs can be kept in St. Louis.

When I moved to St. Louis from Silicon Valley in 2000, I soon learned of specific challenges for the St. Louis technology sector and its labor force. Here, the smaller job pool forced many St. Louis tech workers to become road warriors — requiring significant domestic travel without reciprocally bringing in sustainable revenue to the region as a direct consequence. As we would see with Amazon, massive corporations and offshore companies adopted an e-commerce model that led to the closure of many…

Centene Corp.'s Missouri subsidiary, Home State Health, has hired a former Mercy executive as its new CEO.