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Exporters and importers need to ensure their goods are being shipped and packed properly. It's adventure on the high seas. On board ships steaming over the horizon, your widgets could [...]

Imagine trying to move more than 2 million metric tons of wheat through terminal elevators in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska; loading in 12-hour turnarounds and unloading in 10-hour turnarounds; [...]

Entering the playing field of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is not for the impatient venture capitalist. It is a long game of slow returns that requires a [...]

Keeping employees well becomes cornerstone in debate over costs The selling point for a worksite intervention program is the cost savings it offers employers. Properly administered, such programs can reduce [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Contributing Editor You might ask, what do medical power supplies, SCRs and high-voltage relays have in common? And the answer is they were all products covered in [...]

Byline: Steve Grossman, Contributing Writer The transistor was 18 years old in 1975, the year Solid-State Power Conversion (the forerunner of Power Electronics Technology) was founded; and by that time, [...]

Kansas City-based Pangaea Corp. expects to bag two projects in the Russia Far East worth more than $42 million. Through a complicated stock swap and financial investment program, Pangaea intends [...]

Architecture, engineering firm plans to open offices in Mexico and China Kansas City-based HNTB Corp. has locked in on an $80 million contract for an $800 million airport project in [...]

Kansas City's Boulevard Truck Sales and Service Inc. is driving in new business overseas. The company, which specializes in modifying and rebuilding heavy trucks, has signed a $2.2 million contract [...]

Wyandotte County, generally at the bottom of income surveys, is showing signs of personal earnings growth. Yet that growth appears to be an anomaly. 'One of the interesting dichotomies we [...]

Kansas City's Sun Imports Inc. may not be a household name, but the list of exclusive drinks it's bringing into the United States from around the world are gaining popularity [...]

European companies' extended weeks off are attributed to cultural priorities Like most Europeans, Hans Nissen takes his time off seriously. When his company moved him to Kansas City from Copenhagen [...]

Kansas City's Council for American Russian Cooperation is in hot pursuit of two major construction projects in the Russian Federation worth more than $180 million. The first calls for the [...]

Just because you change companies, don't think you can take your customers with you. Many companies make employees sign noncompete agreements in order to protect their firms. A month ago, [...]

After 18 years of political combat in Washington, former U.S. Senator Jack Danforth has traded in his place on the Senate floor for the quieter pleasures of home life in [...]

Gaming isn't a gamble for Kansas City companies supplying casinos. For vendors, the riverboats mean high stakes contracts worth millions in revenues. For employees, it means full-time jobs. 'It's impacted [...]

Metalworks firm hopes new project will best Bartle Kansas City's A. Zahner Co. seems to have an insatiable appetite for the exotic. Every day its draftsmen and metal workers push [...]

He delivers lessons of international import to Shawnee Mission students David Wolfe has dedicated his life to learning and teaching others about global politics, economics and the delicate balance between [...]

Executives of Western Forms International Inc. say their joint-venture agreement with Vremya-1 in Kharkov, Ukraine, is testimony to the effectiveness of the U.S. government-sponsored SABIT program. Western Forms, which specializes [...]

Lawyer treats the world as if it were his living room Brassy, versatile, able to blow tunes as varied as bee-bop and Bach, attorney J. Scott Brown plays the international [...]

While still embroiled in a bidding war in the New Zealand utility market, Kansas City-based Utilicorp United Inc. is moving into position to capture a chunk of neighboring Australia. The [...]

Kansas City may not have the reputation for innovation that other cities in the country have, but some experts say the metro area's profile as a bench warmer in the [...]

The next 10 years may prove to be the decade of the suburbs. More and more people are being born in and moving to the outer rim of the urban [...]

He's got the drive; now he needs the know-how John Fierro is the Hispanic community's newest and youngest leader. He's focusing all his energy on creating jobs and growth in [...]

Good instincts saved a prominent Kansas City developer thousands of dollars in unnecessary environmental cleanup work. Three years ago, Chuck Hunter, president of Kessinger/Hunter & Co., learned petroleum had contaminated [...]

Anne and Norman Burkart are as attached to shrinking the globe and expanding business as they are to one another. Their global brainchild, Language Link Corp., took shape in 1987. [...]

Political debates over flood-control measures in Blue Valley have lead to threats that area business might dry up. A lobbying effort to replace the Truman Road bridge, which was removed [...]

HOW WE RATE AVERAGE HOURLY PRODUCTION WAGES Labor Market Average hourly production wages, August 1994 Wichita $14.28 St. Louis 13.62 Kansas City 13.54 Source: American City Business Journals research Kansas [...]

The race to capture a piece of the New Zealand utilities market has turned into an 'all-out war' between Kansas City-based UtiliCorp United Inc., New Zealand's largest energy retailer Mercury [...]

The U.S. Small Business Administration has teamed up with Export-Import Bank of the United States for a new program to boost small companies' export capabilities. The Export Working Capital Program, [...]

After signing $10 million in contracts in the Philippines, Marley Cooling Tower has headed to Indonesia to complete its part in a multimillion dollar geothermal project in Java. Work on [...]

Kansas City Power & Light Co. and Topeka-based Western Resources Inc. are talking merger, sources close to both companies say. Officials at the utilities won't comment on a possible alliance, [...]

When Beverlee DeStein Roper switched allegiance, partners of the law firm of Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi couldn't have been happier. Roper served five years as a litigator for [...]

Torotel Inc., a Kansas City manufacturer of magnetic components, has launched an estimated $1.5 million foreign sales bid with two U.S. missile contractors just weeks after driving in $2.2 million [...]

Pending merger down under triggers KC-based company to buy stake in utility Kansas City-based Utilicorp United Inc. is making a series of strategic moves to ensure its presence as a [...]

While large populations, low labor costs and a demand for infrastructure make Eastern Europe enticing, it can't compare with the interest the Far East holds for U.S. companies. 'Export/import routes [...]

Charges of 'gross negligence' in environmental assessments may cost Professional Service Industries Inc. more than $1 million in damages. In a one-page Aug. 11 letter to PSI's Lawrence Environmental Management [...]

Family and friends heap enough construction metaphors around Ron Ward to erect a skyscraper. They describe the president of Western Forms Inc. as anything from the humble 'fellow crew worker' [...]

Next time you want to negotiate a deal in Taiwan, leave the big guns in the power suits at home and bring your mother. That's what AGI Inc. did when [...]

Butler World Trade, a division of Kansas City-based Butler Manufacturing Co., is making a major move south of the border. Expanding its relationship with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Butler will supply [...]

Butler World Trade, a division of Butler Manufacturing Co., has signed a $6.7 million contract with Tianjin Automotive Industry Corp., a government-subsidized Chinese company 80 miles southeast of Beijing. Butler [...]

New treatment spotlights Kansas City, offers hope to frustrated couples 'There are days when you just sit down and cry,' says Carla Kelly of Topeka. 'I don't know why.' The [...]

Architecture, engineering firm to open offices in Mexico and China Kansas City-based HNTB Corp. has locked in on an $80 million contract for an $800 million airport project in Mexico, [...]

As the deadline approaches for auto suppliers to get certified under the Big Three automakers' latest quality assurance standard, QS-9000, concerns have arisen over the cost of compliance and the [...]

While he wraps up an internship for a cement engineer from Lithuania, Dave Bushnell is scrambling to organize six new training sessions and to find internship venues for 10 Polish [...]

A week after its record-breaking $1.15 billion acquisition of Victoria utility United Energy, Kansas City's UtiliCorp United Inc. is already preparing for the next round of energy bids in Australia. [...]