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Carbon footprint might be the last thing you’re considering when choosing a snack. But Airly Foods aims to change that. Post Holdings produces some of the most iconic brands in the grocery aisles, including Honey Bunches of Oats, Chips Ahoy, Honey Maid, Fruity Pebbles and Raisin Bran. However, CEO Rob Vitale told employees Jen McKnight and Mark Izzo to come up with something new – really new. “Rob had charged us with really disruptive innovation,” McKnight says. “He said, ‘Go find me…

A Clayton-based private equity firm that specializes in buying and growing lower middle-market companies has hired a new CFO and added another executive to its leadership team.

The commercial real estate market — like virtually every industry — continues to feel the effects of Covid-19. Even as some mitigation efforts ease, the business closures, stay-at-home mandates and social distancing measures have had a lasting impact on people personally and professionally. In the real estate world, these changes created an unprecedented level of volatility as developers, property owners and tenants adjusted to a new way of doing things. “The pandemic was a lot different…

The majority owner of the St. Louis area's largest urgent care chain is buying a Nashville-area urgent care provider and merging it with the local business.

Germany said Monday it will buy 35 F-35 fighter jets from Boeing competitor Lockheed Martin to replace its aging Tornado as part of the nation’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here's Boeing's response to the news.

Coghill and his wife, Gen, opened Iron Barley in 2003.

The Overland-based company, which provides elevator and escalator management, inspection and consulting services, has expanded with the opening of three new offices.

The Madison, Illinois, race track said Monday it has inked a $700,000 naming rights deal for its upcoming NASCAR Cup Series race.

LoRusso opened LoRusso’s Cucina in 1986 with his wife, Terri.

Anheuser-Busch InBev said it is asking the controlling shareholder in its Russia venture to suspend the license for production and sale of Budweiser in the country.

The departure of Lindenwood's athletics director comes just weeks after the university on Feb. 23 announced it’s reclassifying from the NCAA’s Division II to Division I level and becoming a member of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Ohio Valley Conference.

The Business Journal's newest List, the Largest Urgent Care Operators, digs into the urgent care industry in St. Louis.

The former leader of St. Louis' carpenters union directed $4 million in unauthorized payments for the purchase and construction of billboards, and entered agreements creating an undesirable tax burden, a new lawsuit alleges. And it claims the ex-leader, Al Bond, used union funds for personal expenses and got an unauthorized payroll check.

The new brewery will launch in a production-only space, with six beers, but hopes to move to a location catering to customers "as things start opening up."

The former Missouri representative from Ferguson who then served as St. Louis County Executive Sam Page's policy chief was 37. "We’ve lost someone very special and too soon," the Missouri Democratic Party said in a statement.

Previously, the grocery chain had shortened its operating hours and its specialty counter hours beginning Oct. 4 as it said it was dealing with labor shortages and customers' changing shopping habits.

At Lindenwood, its transition to NCAA Division I athletics is part of a broader strategy to drastically increase its enrollment and revenue. Here's how Lindenwood plans to use its move to the association's highest level of competition to drive success both on and off the field.

"Regarding housing stability, which refers to evictions, back rent, foreclosures and homelessness, 25% of respondents said it would take four years or more to return to pre-pandemic conditions; another 25% said conditions may never return to pre-COVID-19 times,” St. Louis Fed researchers said of survey results.

The expansion will be the firm's 15th new office and likely not its last. One of its leaders says it is "actively recruiting in D.C. and across markets."

The deadline to submit a nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's Business of Pride Awards program, now in its second year, is one week away. You don't want to miss the chance to recognize and celebrate outstanding LGBTQIA+ business leaders and companies who are advocating for inclusion and equality. Submit your nomination before the March 18 deadline here. In addition, the Business Journal again hopes to recognize those who are not members of the LGBTQIA+ community, but are allies leading…