When the roof for a building at American Century Investments’ headquarters campus in Kansas City needed replacing, the company saw it as a modern-day marketing opportunity.
The building at 4400 Main St. houses American Century’s call center. The Kansas City-based mutual fund provider had a giant logo put on the roof, where it can be seen from the top floors of the corporate headquarters at 4500 Main St., One Main Plaza and the Marriott Hotel. It can also be seen by drones, airplanes and satellite…American Century uses roof replacement as a marketing opportunity (Video)
When the roof for a building at American Century Investments’ headquarters campus in Kansas City needed replacing, the company saw it as a modern-day marketing opportunity.
The building at 4400 Main St. houses American Century’s call center. The Kansas City-based mutual fund provider had a giant logo put on the roof, where it can be seen from the top floors of the corporate headquarters at 4500 Main St., One Main Plaza and the Marriott Hotel. It can also be seen by drones, airplanes and satellite…
After losing $24 billion in assets under management in 2016, Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. continues to struggle, seeing assets drop to $80.4 billion in the second quarter, down 7 percent from a year ago.
Although assets continue to decline, the company’s (NYSE: WDR) outflows and market action gains are improving. The company experienced outflows of $2.5 billion in the second quarter, compared with $9.8 billion a year ago, for a 74 percent improvement. Those were the company’s best quarterly…
Kansas City-based NextPage, a state-of-the-art printing and marketing company, acquired Burns Printing in Olathe for an undisclosed amount.
Burns Printing was owned by John and Diane Burnell, who are retiring. NextPage will offer jobs to all 20 of their employees. The addition of Burns Printing gives NextPage 120 employees overall.
“This is about creating more scale,” NextPage CEO Gina Danner said. “Burns Printing has an exceptional reputation for quality, and part of this is about acquiring…
Housed in a building constructed in 1890 that originally was a stable for a bakery business distributing bread throughout Kansas City, Lifted Spirits Distillery feels the pull of history every day.
President Kyle Claypool and head distiller Michael Stuckey now use that old building at 1734 Cherry St. to once again distribute products made from local grains all over the area.
They built out their facility with a 200-person-capacity event space upstairs with views of the distilling operation. There…
The Whitlock Co. agreed to acquire RPA CPAs LLC and RPA Consulting Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
Founded in 1913 and based in Springfield, Mo., The Whitlock Co. (TWC) provides accounting and consulting services to the Kansas City metropolitan area, Southwest Missouri, Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma. The company entered the Kansas City market in November 2015, hiring Chuck McCann to set up an office in Overland Park. McCann is a founder of Mayer Hoffman McCann PC, the auditing arm of CBIZ…
Kansas City-based nonprofit Alphapointe succesfully had two claims of patent infringement related to a tourniquet it produces for the U.S. Army dismissed.
Alphapointe, an organization dedicated to providing jobs and assistance to the blind and visually impaired, received a letter in October 2015 from South Carolina-based Composite Resources Inc. claiming that Alphapointe's tourniquet design infringed on four of its patents. Alphapointe responded with a preemptive legal strike, asking the court to…