Firebird Artisan Mills, a portfolio company of Leawood-based Agspring, will be sold to Ardent Mills in Denver. The companies expect the deal to close this year.

Two Kansas City-area business consultants teamed up to create a free online assessment tool for small businesses designed to identify cost savings. The tool is called the BOS Financial Assessment, and it was put together by Shane Glavin, president of Power CFO in Kansas City, and Arthur Riley, chief visionary officer for Endgame Consulting Solutions in Lenexa. BOS stands for Blue Ocean Solutions. It comes from a saying that for a business to grow, it has to get out into the blue ocean — away…

Mariner Wealth Advisors acquired FCG Advisors, adding $2.7 billion in assets. That pushes the total assets under management acquired this summer to north of $9 billion.

After declaring a patent infringement suit baseless, a judge made a rare order for a company to pay legal fees to an Overland Park law firm.

The Planned Approach was acquired by a large national firm with no office in Kansas City.

Kansas City NWSL, which returned professional women’s soccer to the area, announced plans to build a $15 million training facility in Riverside. The project is funded by the team’s owners. The training facility will be located just off Interstate 635 and Horizons Parkway. It will include two grass pitches and a 17,000-square-foot building. The layout includes a locker room, weight and cardio rooms, office space, outdoor gathering spaces and areas for nutrition and wellness — all specifically…