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Staying proactive and investing in marketing were among one firm's strategies to grow auction sales in 2024.

Ray Vandiver's journey from childhood star parties to leading the Saint Louis Science Center is a tale of passion and perseverance that spans decades.

An East St. Louis native who benefited from community programs as a child, Tandra Taylor now leads multiple initiatives to empower youth and preserve local history in Metro East.

By and large, St. Louis companies align CEO pay and performance well, according to experts. But there are a few outliers.

Here are the top trends local executives say are shaping the employee benefits industry today.

Ness Sandoval, a demographer and sociologist at Saint Louis University, fell in love with statistics as an undergrad.

While local corporate philanthropy was down in 2024, many companies still increased their giving — 37 of 60 firms that ranked in our Largest Corporate Philanthropists Lists increased local giving from 2023 to 2024.

In a year when the metropolitan area added 6,420 people to the region, St. Louis city had a net loss of 3,077 people, mostly due to domestic migration.

The region had a net increase of 6,420 in population. This growth reflected large gains from international migration and losses from domestic migration and from deaths outnumbering births.

Banks with fastest-growing commercial & industrial loan portfolios in St. Louis

Feeling uninspired at work, combined with a health scare, pushed entrepreneur Heather Kirchner to take the leap and open a franchise.

St. Louis' largest securities broker-dealers

With more than $683 million in funding received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the school also had the highest growth in NIH funding for the second year in a row.

Neon Greens, Josh Smith's quick-service salad concept in The Grove, uses a hydroponic growing method to grow its own lettuce on site. Here's how his theatrical training led him to become an entrepreneur.

The cost of new construction projects planned and started in 2024 was more than $6 billion, pushing the total combined cost of the largest construction projects in the St. Louis region to over $20 billion.

St. Louis' largest commercial developers

Robert Nelson, the executive director at the National Blues Museum, was pulled toward music throughout his life, from education to working with record companies to his work at the museum.

Incomes in Metro East have risen and some areas are growing, but many cities are hollowing out.

Regardless of the number of businesses, all Metro East county businesses were in similar industries, with retail leading the way in the largest counties.

The number of employees in the St. Louis metro grew 2.57% from August 2023 to August 2024, behind only three other metro areas.