Category: Financial

Daily update: Missouri economic growth, Rural hospital struggles, Man sentenced for investment fraud, and more…

Happy Friday! It’s International Women’s Day.
The Midwest economy is continuing its strong growth and Missouri’s prospects look good as the February Business Conditions Index climbed…. I-70 Community Hospital has been cut off from the federal Medicare program…. And a Missouri man was sentenced to prison for fraud in a $4.7 million investment scheme.

Daily update: Purina, UMB Bank and more

Purina Expanding in Southeast Missouri Nestlé Purina is investing $115 million in its Bloomfield factory in Southeast Missouri where Tidy Cats brand cat litter is made. The expansion will add a 110,000-square-foot processing and packaging facility and about 30 new jobs by mid-2020. The…

Tidbits: More bank mergers; Stifel unit helps raise $310 million; KC law firm expands to St. Louis; and more

Kansas City law firm Kirkland Woods & Martinsen hired two St. Louis-area lawyers — John Challis, who had been with Polsinelli, and Andrew Mitchell, who had been with Greensfelder — to open a St. Louis office in Clayton.  Eaton Partners helped Warren Equity Partners raise $310 million for its first institutional…