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TGI Fridays is now managed by an outside consultant known for facilitating bankruptcies. Here’s the latest on the chain.

The CEO of Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. will shift to the role of vice chairman, with the firm’s current president to become its new chief executive.

Irish airline Aer Lingus on Monday said it would start a nonstop flight next year from Dublin to another Midwest city, the second time in the past month that St. Louis has been bypassed for a Dublin route on the carrier.

The federal government has chosen five groups in the St. Louis area to receive $170 million in tax credit authority designed to spur economic growth in low-income communities.

The fund is reportedly worth more than $10 million, with more than 20 shareholders.

A family-owned, Minnesota-based operator of senior living communities has partnered with a Milaukee real estate company to open their first Missouri community.

Kara and Dave Bailey have opened the third location of their breakfast and brunch spot.

Women in leadership roles have seen recent gains, but there are more ways businesses can help increase opportunities for inclusion. The challenge isn’t the proverbial glass ceiling. Research from the consulting firm McKinsey shows it is a broken rung on the career ladder, where women make the first step into management at a disproportionately lower rate than their male peers. The 2023 Women in the Workplace report states that for every 100 men who take that step on the ladder, just 87 women…

Saint Louis University has laid off 23 staff members and will freeze another 130 vacant positions as it works to cut expenses by $20 million this fiscal year.

Boeing and the union representing some 33,000 workers in the Pacific Northwest who've been on strike since Sept. 13 have negotiated a tentative new agreement.

A Maryland Heights distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products, reached asset-purchase agreements with two New Jersey businesses.

The Los Angeles Rams are looking to capitalize on their option to buy Rams Park in Earth City, the team's practice facility when it was located in St. Louis, for $1, according to court documents.

A local bank has entered into a consent order with federal regulators who alleged that it engaged in “unsafe or unsound practices” related to complying with laws to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen on Friday voted 12-0 to repeal an unenforced blue law that prohibited barbershops from operating past 6:30 p.m. or on Sundays and certain holidays.

St. Charles City-County Library CEO Jason Kuhl is resigning to take a job with another library system, he said in an email sent to staff Friday. In the email, Kuhl said he had been "involved in a recruitment process with another library," and was approved as that library's CEO on Thursday. His last day with the St. Charles City-County Library will be Nov. 4. Kuhl's resignation comes months after protests from the community over his statements in May indicating the system would need to close three…

Palladium St. Louis, an event venue near Lafayette Square, will close at the end of the year as a local church takes over the property.

Bally Sports Midwest, which airs Blues games and has aired Cardinals games, will get a new name, effective Oct. 21.

A breakfast, lunch and brunch restaurant chain with multiple locations in St. Louis plans to expand with two to three more sites in the region.

The campaign opposing a sports betting constitutional amendment on Missouri’s November ballot canceled more than $1 million in television ads Thursday just as the group pushing the proposal launched new ads featuring former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith. The Independent’s tracking of broadcaster reports to the Federal Communications Commission show that Missourians Against the Deceptive Online Gambling Amendment aired or reserved almost $4 million worth of television ads opposing…

The LongHorn Steakhouse in Fairview Heights is now approved to reopen, two weeks after it voluntarily closed over an investigation into food poisoning. As of Thursday, the business had not publicly stated a reopening date. The restaurant temporarily closed Oct. 2 after customers tested positive for shigella, a bacterial infection that can cause stomach pains, fever and diarrhea that can be bloody. The St. Clair County Health Department said its inspectors have been at the restaurant and gave…