Kansas shines in Business Facilities magazine’s 2010 Rankings Report
(08/17/2010)- Kansas has been named a Top 10 state in eight of 20 categories in Business Facilities magazine’s 2010 Rankings Report, officials announced today. More...
Kansas grabs No. 3 ranking in “Top Deals and Hot Markets” report
(08/11/2010) - Kansas has been ranked No. 3 in Southern Business & Development magazine’s annual “Top Deals and Hot Markets” report, the state’s highest finish ever in the survey, officials announced this week. More...
Kansas ranked No. 7 in annual Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States report
(08/04/2010) For the second straight year, Kansas has been ranked the nation’s No. 7 most business-friendly state in the Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States report. More...
Kansas Ranks #5 In Biotechnology Strength
(08/03/2010) - Kansas has been ranked the #5 state in the nation in Biotechnology Strength by Business Facilities magazine in its annual Rankings Report. The 2010 ranking is a major leap forward for the Sunflower State, which ranked ninth in the biotech category last year and tied for 10th in 2008. More...
Bombardier Aerospace to expand Learjet site in Wichita
(08/03/2010) - Bombardier Aerospace today announced the expansion of its Learjet production site in Wichita to include the new Learjet 85 jet, creating at least 300 jobs and $600 million in total investment in Kansas. More...
Hoefer Wysocki Architects to relocate headquarters to Leawood, Kan.
(07/30/2010) Architectural and design firm Hoefer Wysocki Architects (HWA) will move its Country Club Plaza headquarters to a new location in Leawood, bringing 65 jobs and $5.1 million in initial capital investment to Kansas – with up to 60 additional jobs projected over the next several years. More...
Spectra Composites chooses Columbus for new warehousing, distribution facility
(07/19/2010) Spectra Composites, a Missouri-based distributor of composite materials for various industries, has purchased a new distribution and warehousing facility in Columbus, Kan., creating nine new jobs and $1,650,770 in capital and operational investment. More...
Kansas ranks No. 11 in CNBC’s annual Top States for Business
(07/16/10) Kansas ranks No. 11 in CNBC’s annual Top States for Business report.
Survey ranks Kansas among Top 10 in transportation, economy, cost of living. More...
Kansas awarded Silver Shovel Award by Area Development magazine for job creation, capital investment
(06/24/10) For the fourth time in five years, Area Development magazine has named Kansas a winner of the Silver Shovel Award for excellence in job creation and capital investment. More...
Novita Therapeutics Awarded Grant from the Kansas Bioscience Authority
(06/15/10) Novita Therapeutics ("Novita") announced today that the Kansas Bioscience Authority ("KBA") has awarded Novita a $72,578 grant to complete design work on an implantable cardiovascular device under development at Novita. More...
Site Selection magazine names Kansas a Top 10 state in Competiveness Award
(06/04/10) Kansas has been named one of the nation’s 10 most competitive states for capital investment and new facility development by Site Selection magazine, a leading publication for site location consultants. More...
Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc., Opens Overland Park Office
(06/02/10) Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. has opened an Overland Park environmental services office, bringing dozens of jobs to the city. More...
Allen Foods Announces Decision to Build Manufacturing Facility in Topeka
(05/07/2010) Allen Foods has confirmed its decision to build a new manufacturing facility in Topeka, Kansas on a 20-acre site in the Central Crossing Commerce Park in south Topeka. The Company, which produces fresh baked goods, will build a state of the art commercial bakery and create in excess of 50 new jobs in the area. The company’s capital investment in Topeka will exceed $30 million. More...
Denmark firm establishes wind turbine facility in Junction City
(04/30/2010) Jupiter Group, a Denmark-based producer of wind turbine components will open a new manufacturing facility in Junction City, Kansas More...
SAFC Biosciences expansion delivers Kansas City area a happy pill
(04/30/2010) Lenexa-based SAFC Biosciences is scheduled in May to start expanding its manufacturing operation, which supplies cell-culture materials for developers of animal vaccines and human biological drugs that treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. More...
GM will invest $136M in Kansas assembly plant
(04/26/2010) General Motors Corp. will invest $136 million in its Kansas City, Kan., plant to build its next-generation Chevrolet Malibu, Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre said in a Wednesday morning visit to the Fairfax Assembly Plant. More...
Jefferson Wells International Inc. will move offices from Kansas City to Overland Park.
(04/25/2010) Jefferson Wells International Inc. will move its local office from Kansas City to Overland Park. The firm, which offers risk advisory, finance and accounting services, will move to 6900 College Boulevard, in the Corporate Woods office park. Jim Waddella, managing director for the firm’s offices in the Kansas City and St. Louis markets, said the move probably will be completed by the end of the month. More...
Volvo Aero Services picks Winfield for new warehousing, distribution facility
(04/05/2010) Volvo Aero Services Corp., a leading provider of aftermarket services in the aviation industry, will open a new distribution and warehouse facility in Winfield, Kan., creating at least four new jobs and $1.67 million in capital investment. More...
MPM Capital venture capital firm acquires home away from home in Kansas City, Kan.
(03/23/2010) A leading international life sciences venture capital firm has made Kansas City, Kan., its first domestic base of operations outside the biotech hotbeds on the East and West coasts. MPM Capital, which has offices in Boston and San Francisco, is renovating a roughly 6,500-square-foot building just south of The University of Kansas Hospital. More...
Spartech Corporation Expands in Wichita
(03/17/2010)Spartech Corporation, a leading producer of plastic sheet, compounds, and packaging products, will expand its current facility at 1444 South Tyler Road in Wichita. Spartech has multiple facilities throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico and France. More...
Regent Asset Management Solutions to Expand in Kansas
(03/08/2010) Regent Asset Management Solutions will lease space previously occupied by the IRS at 7720 W. 119th Street at Rosana Square. Company officials said they will occupy approximately 15,000 square feet. The company plans to grow to 400 employees within the first year and 1,200 employees within five years. More...
Receivables Management Firm to Create More Than 220 New Jobs in Lenexa, Kansas
(02/12/2010) St. Charles, Mo.-based Client Services, Inc. will invest $3.43 million with the opening of an operation in the Kansas City area. The company’s new receivables management center will initially create more than 175 new jobs, with growth in excess of 220 persons within two years. More...
Central Bag Company Relocates Business to Leavenworth
(02/01/2010) Leavenworth County Development Corporation (LCDC) is pleased to announce the location of a new business to Leavenworth. Central Bag Company is moving its business from Kansas City, Missouri to the former Hallmark Select Products building. After renovations to the building are complete, the company will bring its 17 existing employees to Leavenworth this year with plans to increase that number to 75 over the next 5 years. More...
Cerner to open new Kansas office, create 4,500 jobs
(01/18/2010) Cerner Corporation, a global leader in healthcare information solutions, will bring a new office complex to Wyandotte County, creating at least 4,500 new Kansas jobs and approximately $150 million in capital investment, officials announced today. More...
Redbarn Pet Products Announces Big Plans for Move to Great Bend
(01/08/2010) When Jeff Baikie and Howard Bloxam founded Redbarn Pet Products in the 1990s, they had no idea how successful their company would be or that they would eventually be moving to Central Kansas. Redbarn Pet Products, Inc. would like to announce that they will be moving their operations from Long Beach, California to Great Bend, Kansas in the building formerly occupied by Great Bend Packing. More...
RPS Financial expands operations in Kansas
(01/05/2010) The Park Place mixed-used project at 119th Street and Nall Avenue is bucking a slow development economy and building its second phase, buoyed by a major office tenant. The $25 million expansion includes a 67,280-square-foot office and retail building, and a 415-space parking garage. The primary office tenant will be RPS Financial Group, a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual. RPS will occupy the top floor of the three-story building and part of the second level. More...
U.S. Bank to open Overland Park service center, employing 1,100
(12/17/2009) U.S. Bank is providing early holiday cheer to local job seekers, announcing this morning it plans to open a service center in Overland Park and hire 1,100 new workers. More...
J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services Announces Headquarters Move to Overland Park
(12/15/2009) The City of Overland Park officials received an early Christmas gift today with the announcement by J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services that it has signed a ten-year lease to occupy new headquarters on the Sprint Campus. The 175,000-squarefoot building at 6580 Sprint Parkway will house 800 Kansas City-based jobs and the move is scheduled for early 2011. More...
Wind energy manufacturer selects Newton for new facility
(12/09/2009) Newton’s Kansas Logistics Park has announced its first major manufacturing partner. More...
Sealy Recommits to Wyandotte County
(12/04/2009) The largest bedding manufacturer in North America and longtime Wyandotte County manufacturer, Sealy Mattress Company has announced plans to continue producing their world-famous mattresses in Kansas. Sealy will move its local operations to 435 Riverpark in July, 2010, securing in excess of 100 manufacturing jobs for the county. More...
SPV Coach Company and Southwest Professional Vehicles choose Kansas
(11/13/2009) The limousines manufactured by an area company are absent wet bars, colorful lighting and elaborate music systems. Seats face the car's front, providing privacy, instead of the usual bench-style seats in which passengers face each other for ease of conversation. Built-in tissue boxes serve as a clue to the purpose of these luxury limos, which, like other up-scale Cadillacs, sport genuine leather seats and thick, cushiony carpeting on the floor. More...
Brownback Announces Funding for ABADRL Laboratory to Be Relocated to Manhattan, Kansas
(10/28/2009) U.S. Senator Sam Brownback applauded Agriculture Appropriations Conference Committee funding to relocate the Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Laboratory from Wyoming to Manhattan, Kansas. More...
Bushnell Outdoor Products to lease 221,800 sq ft in Olathe
(10/28/2009) Bushnell Outdoor Products has signed a lease for a 221,800-square-foot space in Olathe, where it will consolidate its area distribution facilities. More...
CareCentrix chooses Overland Park for new Regional Care Center
(10/27/2009) CareCentrix, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of home health benefits management services, has chosen Overland Park for its newest regional care center. More...
Greensburg Wind Farm Development Announced
(10/19/2009) Cleaner, greener energy could soon help power Greensburg, Kansas, a community recently leveled by a massive tornado. The City of Greensburg, Kansas Power Pool, and John Deere Renewables jointly announce their plans to develop the Greensburg Wind Farm. More...
Kansas ranks No. 15 on Forbes magazine’s list of the best states for business
(09/28/2009) Kansas has been ranked No. 15 on Forbes magazine's list of the best states for business. Forbes measured states using six vital categories for businesses: costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life. More...
N. Glantz & Son Relocates Kansas City Branch
(09/11/2009) N. Glantz & Son, LLC is pleased to announce the expansion and relocation of its Kansas City branch. The new warehouse features a welcoming will-call area, improved office systems, and increased inventory. More...
Kansas passes new business-friendly legislation
(09/03/2009) Kansas lawmakers have again enacted new economic development legislation to help reduce a company's bottom-line cost of doing business in the state. More...
Kansas City Steak Company Expanding; Increasing Product Line from Wyandotte County
(08/19/2009) Kansas City Steak Company has announced plans to expand its facility and increase operations at its Wyandotte County location, state and company officials announced this week. The expansion will help make room for the company's newly expanded product line, which is anticipated to produce an estimated $110 million in sales in the next year. More...
Kansas ranked No. 7 in CNBC’s annual Top States for Business Report
(07/27/2009) It’s 7th Heaven for Kansas business leaders this week, thanks to the state’s No. 7 finish in CNBC’s annual America’s Top States for Business report. The CNBC report analyzes all 50 states by examining 40 different measures of competitiveness, which are then grouped into 10 broad categories: cost of doing business, workforce, quality of life, economy, transportation, technology and innovation, education, business friendliness, access to capital and cost of living. More...
FedEx Ground SmartPost secures site for Kansas City operations
(07/14/2009) FedEx Smartpost, a division of FedEx Ground and a wholly owned subsidiary of FedEx Corp., secured a lease for a 126,357 square-foot site in Olathe to serve Kansas City operations. The Hub is scheduled for startup at the end of September 2009 and will be located at 22161 West 167th St., Olathe, KS 66062. More...
Kansas, Winning With Wind
(07/14/09) Despite the economic recession, Kansas is bringing in business and prospering. Due to a pro-business government and lawmakers who are passing legislation to make doing business in Kansas more appealing than ever, the state has found itself in an enviable position. Wind Energy is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing industries in the state. Kansas' wind-generating capacity recently surpassed 1,000 megawatts, making it one of the nation's top 10 states for wind energy production. More...
Premier Processing to Open Wichita Facility
(07/14/2009) Premier Processing, a startup metal finishing company, will establish a 36,000 square-foot facilty in Wichita, officials announced today. The company is investing more than $3.8 million in capital, including manufacturing machinery and equipment, and plans to launch in early fall. More...
