The St. Louis Business Journal unveiled and celebrated the fastest-growing private companies in the region during a lunch event Thursday at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel downtown.
The move ends a saga that saw St. Louis stand alone in its stance, developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, that nonresidents shouldn't get refunds on the earnings tax for work done outside the city for city-based employers.
(The Center Square) – As campaigning escalates before Missouri’s August primary election, Republican Gov. Mike Parson asked citizens on Thursday to look away for a moment.
With Interstate 70 in Columbia, Missouri, as a backdrop, Parson said the ceremonial groundbreaking to begin the $2.8 billion expansion of the highway to six lanes across the state displayed good government.
“It affects everybody,” Parson said as he was joined by current and former local, federal and state legislators…
The St. Louis Business Journal's AdvanceSTL survey asked business leaders across the country whether they'd consider expanding or relocating to St. Louis. Here's what they had to say.
Questions have been raised by non-winning contractors and some of the winning minority subcontractors about the process surrounding the St. Louis County Port Authority’s awarding of a contract for demolition of Jamestown Mall, according to a report in a construction trade publication.
The St. Louis region's 50 fastest-growing private companies this year had an average growth of 90.9%. Check out the two-year growth rate of each company, as well as the industries represented and more.
The city of St. Louis said Thursday it will eventually loan drivers, via a nonprofit, money to pay for personal property taxes, and auto tag fees and insurance premiums.
The 2024 program honors 11 startups, companies and organizations that reached key milestones in the last year. In addition, we are honoring one individual with the Legacy Entrepreneur Award this year.
Ascension, the St. Louis-based, multistate health system, said there’s no evidence that a recent cyberattack resulted in data being taken from electronic health records and other clinical systems, but hackers did steal files "from a small number of servers" that may contain protected health information.
For the third time since April 2023, the global law firm has hired partners away from a St. Louis-based competitor for its Clayton office, a key part of the law firm's growth strategy focusing on the Midwest.
(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker touts the elimination of the state's grocery tax, but others say the plan eliminates taxpayer protections from local tax increases.
Illinois’ 1% state grocery tax will go away Jan. 1, 2026, but local governments will be able to restore it locally without a referendum under a proposal awaiting Pritzker's signature.
In 2022, an election year, Pritzker proposed a 12-month reduction of the state’s grocery tax from 1% to zero. Funds were increased…
For a company to experience triple-digit growth it usually comes down to some combination of risk and guile, a willingness to take a gamble mixed with the cunning to make that gamble work.
A company created 20 years ago with $3,600 borrowed from the founder's wife now sits at the top of the Business Journal’s annual list of the St. Louis region’s fastest-growing private companies.
“I think that we’re really positioned to serve as a front door to the region and make sure that people aren’t getting a dated view of St. Louis,” officials said.
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