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Bryan Cave leaders: One year after merger, firm is truly global
Find out how Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner spent the past year since the merger that turned the law firm into a global entity.
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ACG panel: How collaborating with startups helps corporations innovate
A giant electrical utility isn’t exactly the type of company people think would be investing in startups, but that’s exactly what Evergy Inc. has been doing since 2015. Evergy is the result of the 2018...
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Food systems manufacturer invests millions to expand KC operations
Shick Esteve spent millions of dollars to expand its manufacturing operations and build a technology center in Kansas City.
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Mize Houser gets creative with recruiting — and gets rewarded with results
In an industry with less than 2 percent unemployment, Mize Houser needed to come up with a new approach to find the talent it needed. The accounting firm tried a different approach.
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Husch Blackwell nabs tax partner from competitor
Husch Blackwell LLP added Crystal Howard as a new partner in its tax practice group. Howard spent the past five years as a tax attorney at Spencer Fane LLP. She has nine years of experience as a tax...
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Waddell & Reed settles class action accusing it of breaching fiduciary duty
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. agreed to pay $4.88 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against it by a former employee. Stacy Schapker of Shawnee, a former paralegal at Overland...
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The Oddo family's City Wide Maintenance rides franchising to $50M in growth
City Wide Maintenance saw its revenue grow by $50 million in 2018 and is on pace to surpass $300 million in annual revenue this year.
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Kansas Speedway's May races pick up a new title sponsor
Digital Ally Inc. signed a partnership agreement with Kansas Speedway that makes the Lenexa company the title sponsor for the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Truck Series races on May 10 and 11. “We are...
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Mariner's Miami-area acquisition will add $1.3B in assets
Mariner Wealth Advisors will buy one of the largest independent fee-based wealth advisory firms in South Florida. Overland Park-based Mariner will acquire Singer Xenos Schechter Sosler Wealth...
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A look inside the proposed YRC collective bargaining agreement
Learn more about the new YRC Worldwide labor agreement and what it means for the company and its workers.
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Compass Minerals hires 30-year mining veteran as CEO
Overland Park-based Compass Minerals International Inc. hired 30-year mining industry veteran Kevin Crutchfield as its new president and CEO, effective May 7. Crutchfield had been CEO at Contura Energy...
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H&R Block co-founder dies at age 96
Henry Bloch, a philanthropist and co-founder of H&R Block Inc., died Tuesday at age 96. Born July 30, 1922, Bloch was a lifelong Kansas Citian. He was a war veteran, entrepreneur and...
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PNC Bank opens second Kansas City-area branch
As the Kansas City area gears up for a surge in new bank brands, the nation's sixth-largest bank opened its second local office six months after debuting its first. The new branch — which PNC Bank...
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Commerce Bank names a new chief accounting officer
Commerce Bank promoted Paul Steiner to corporate controller and chief accounting officer effective immediately. Steiner has more than 25 years of accounting experience. He has been at Commerce Bank for...
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Tom Hoenig joins board of Kansas City company
Tom Hoenig, former CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, has a new job in the metro area. Hoenig was elected to the board for Kansas City Life Insurance Co., filling a vacancy created by the...
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Opportunity Zones will be prime for business — not just real estate — investment
While most of the talk so far about Opportunity Zones has been about the advantages of making real estate investments, new guidance show there also will be big advantages to investing in businesses...
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WWMB@20 profile: 'Monumental and exciting' award spurs Watley to achieve even...
When Carolyn Watley took a job as office manager at an employee benefits brokerage and accounting firm called Robert D. O’Byrne & Associates Inc. in 1977, she had no idea she would spend her entire...
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Plaintiffs dismiss lawsuit against OP ag tech company over patent invalidation
A lawsuit filed against Overland Park-based Farms Technology LLC and its founder Jason Tatge was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs on Monday. "I am happy this is behind me," Tatge said in an...
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New manufacturing tech delivers miniaturization for Pivot International
Pivot International spent $1.5 million to set up an electronics manufacturing process called Surface Mount Technology. SMT is considered a more efficient electronic manufacturing method for...
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Country Club Bank splits top role at its trust company as Cole retires
The retirement of Jim Cole will lead to the splitting of his duties at the helm of Country Club Trust Co. Country Club Bank recently named two executives as CEO and president of its trust company.
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