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After losing her restaurant management job, Lydia Gwin pivoted to create a business that offers virtual cooking activities. That, in turn, led to a position as project manager at Nine PBS.

The capital will be used to fund a road rebuilding project through Florissant and Dellwood and for a portion of a major greenway development through several St. Louis neighborhoods.

A nonprofit that provides services to help immigrants integrate into the St. Louis community received a $1.5 million grant to assist in funding resettlement efforts with Afghan refugees.

Jennifer George oversees multiple departments for St. Charles County, including information systems, human resources, community development, workforce and business development, and communications.

Neosha Franklin leads communication and community initiatives for the St. Louis Community Foundation, the region's largest charitable trust and foundation ranked by grant volume.

Jessica Erfling leads a nonprofit that works to help homeless youth transition into independence.

As partner in charge of RubinBrown's public sector services group, Renita Duncan is responsible for leading roughly 45 team members in providing accounting services to a broad spectrum of government organizations, local public school districts, and state and political districts.

With its fresh financing, the St. Louis-based startup plans to advance development of technology to deliver traits to crops like soybeans and corn to improve yield.

Matt Drinen co-founded Emerald Capital, which has closed $70 million in financing and sourced $60 million in new market allocations.

Dibble has re-energized the Donald Danforth's diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments through changes to training and education, and a focus on hiring and retention processes.

You and your friends or colleagues have a great business idea and are ready to launch a startup. Great. But where do you begin? While having multiple people start a business together can be an exciting venture, before getting too ahead of yourselves it’s important to start your partnership with a written agreement to lay out duties and allocations of tax and economic items. Partnership agreements usually include some confusing language sprinkled with the occasional “whereof” or “heretofore”…

One of the nation's largest beef producers has chosen a county in the St. Louis region for a new beef processing plant. The company said it could create more than 1,300 jobs with the new facility.

The utility says it has provided about $1 million in incentives so far to businesses and public facilities to install charging stations.

DeGeare played a critical role in securing more than $2.6 million for fiscal year 2022 through state and federal grant development initiatives.

The taps at Anheuser-Busch’s St. Louis brewery will soon flow with a beer that hasn’t been tasted in more than a century. AB announced Tuesday it’s bringing back its original flagship beer, the St. Louis Lager. It was the main brand for the company when it first started in St. Louis back in the 1850s. “By bringing back St. Louis Lager this December, we are proud to recognize the community that has enabled us to continue to grow and connect with consumers all over the world,” said Colleen…

The establishment will close after dinner service Sunday, Nov. 21, citing the inability to ink a lease renewal for its space. "It saddens me to have put all the blood, sweat, and tears into growing our business, only to have it woefully taken from us," the owner posted on the restaurant's Facebook page.

As shareholder at Polsinelli, Lilian Davis has established a career in employment law. She's recently co-authored articles on policy changes under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the American Rescue Plan Act.

As director of operations at the Gateway Arch for Bi-State Development, Sarah Clarke is responsible for ensuring a high-quality experience for the attraction's 2.5 million annual visitors.

When Castle Contracting was expanding its new civil design-build service in 2018, it looked to Christie Brinkman to lead the effort as director of the team. Brinkman, an architecture, engineering and construction marketing and sales strategist, used her engineering firm experience to attract new owner and developer clients.

Statewide elections are looking unwinnable to a lot of Dems. So much so, that for auditor, at least so far, there’s apparently no aspiring Democratic politician willing to take a flyer on the race.