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A new San Francisco law requires city contractors to offer employees domestic-partner benefits - and has stirred up a wind of change that's blowing across the country. Tom Ammiano has [...]

It's been a bruising first year for John O'Rourke as head of one of the state's largest health insurers. O'Rourke took the top post at RightChoice Managed Care Inc. in [...]

Venture capital firm holds 60% stake Thomas Zorumski is back. The former head of United Healthcare of the Midwest filed plans with the state for a new health maintenance organization [...]

Reports on developments on the world stock and equity markets. Gains from emerging markets; Hopes for an end to the world recession; Forecast for 1994; Increase in the interests gained from international equities; Dividends on American depositary receipts and global mutual funds; Risks in investing abroad. INSET: WHERE THE GURUS ARE GOING.

Discusses how with the world's second-largest economy reeling, Japan's leaders are embarking on a major overhaul that will be a long and painful process. Stocks have skidded, banks are wobbly, and workers are scared. More financial and industrial change on the way for the country; Worried consumers shifting funds to the post office; What Japan must do.

Area hospitals are scrambling to take the sting out of rising natural gas prices. Mike Graue, executive vice president of St. Louis operations for SSM Health Care, said St. Joseph [...]

Companies are looking for ways to protect themselves from a rising tide of litigation over the Family Medical Leave Act. The 7-year-old federal law says that all employees have a [...]

The Internet is coming to a store-front near you. The recently expanded Schnucks Sup ercenter at Bellerive Plaza in Creve Coeur is the latest example of mixing retail with Internet [...]

Equipment makers, entrepreneurs use law to protect their intellectual property Dave Roodman's office is full of golf clubs -- 50 different drivers and irons of all types, built from all [...]

With most of the stock market crashing and burning around it, local defense supplier Engineered Support Systems has seen its share price double during the past nine months. Fueled by [...]

Dr. Jonathan Bortz has signed a contract to offer disease management services for hundreds of diabetics among the area's union carpenters. Becky Perez, health services coordinator for the Carpenters District [...]

Local software developer and consultant SSE has added 25 employees and jump-started its government business with the acquisition of PureLogix. A software developer much like SSE, PureLogix was founded in [...]

Sometimes when Dr. Nathaniel Soper performs surgery, he doesn't even look at the patient. In fact, he sits six feet away, staring at a computer screen with his hands on [...]

Max Broadcasting Network has laid off nearly half its staff and suspended executive salaries. Founder Andrew Gladney said payment of executive salaries has been stopped until the company is 'able [...]

Sony Online taps Ratcliff to create PlanetSide--the next generation of computer games John Ratcliff has been working with trees lately -- planting them by the hundreds in fractions of a [...]

Partner Bryan Cave Nick Varsam, 39, said about half his work related to transactions at the Bryan Cave law firm has been for telecom companies -- including this year's $405 [...]

Partner Bryan Cave R. Randall Wang, 41, spends some of his time helping clients with mundane matters, such as regular reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. But he also [...]

Partner Bryan Gave James Erlinger is leader of the Bryan Cave law firm's Entrepreneurial, Technology & Commercial Practice Client Services Group. His focuses on working with closely-held companies and technology-related [...]

Partner Bryan Cave When Unigraphics Solutions considered buying Engineering Animation, it turned to Harold Burroughs for help with the deal. By October, Burroughs, 40, had helped Unigraphics, a local software [...]

Barry-Wehmiller Cos. Inc. wants to bring computer skills from the sub-continent to St. Louis with its latest acquisition, the $2 million purchase of MWS, based in Chennai, India. MWS, to [...]

SBA 504 program is one of largest lending avenues the council sponsors When Phillip Wurm needed money for a new building, some bankers tried to scare him off a Small [...]

Recently, Dr. Mike Noetzel, pediatric neurologist at Washington University School of Medicine, sat at a conference table in downtown St. Louis and watched on a television screen as 9-year-old Ahmed [...]

New York Life's recent sale of its majority stake in Express Scripts Inc. is paying off big for Barrett Toan. Toan adds chairman of the board to his chief executive [...]

Mortgages attract buyers by offering home loans at 1 to 2 percentage points below typical rates Two local lenders are bringing the latest wrinkle in home loans to St. Louis: [...]

New president says funding for new home is first priority Roger Lanier plans to raise $40 million to build a new home for the Jewish Hospital. College of Nursing and [...]

Barry-Wehmiller Cos. Inc. has been snapping up companies in the fragmented packaging machinery industry since the late 1980s, and Chief Executive Robert Chapman shows no signs of letting up. His [...]

Brian Matthews' latest brainchild, PrimaryClick.com, is up and running with an initial cash investment of $100,000. Matthews said he expects the new Internet ad agency to seek another $250,000 to [...]

BJC HealthCare has put a for sale sign on a building on South Kingshighway Boulevard -- at least the seventh BJC real estate asset to go on the block this [...]

Last month, the library at St. Charles County Community College went from 70,000 volumes to 9 million. That's because it joined a statewide system of college libraries called Mobius. That [...]

A Michigan re-seller of Hewlett-Packard computers has a toehold in St. Louis after the acquisition of a small division of locally based Computer Sales International. Eric Johnson, vice president for [...]

Thanks to a string of acquisitions in Europe and the United States, Belden Inc. has bounced back from the collapse of its Asian business to post a 47 percent jump [...]

Tom Grady might seem like the last person who would start a dot-com company. After a stint as a news director in radio, the 51-year-old former Air Force cartographer spent [...]

Lange-Stegmann Co. hopes to breathe new life into a promising -- but floundering -- technology it bought from fertilizer giant IMC-Agrico. Locally based Lange-Stegmann acquired the rights to make and [...]

Lawsuits arise from questions about equivalent jobs Companies are looking for ways to protect themselves from a rising tide of litigation over the Family. Medical Leave Act. The 7-year-old federal [...]

SSM St. Mary's Health Center will handle up to 28 percent more operations than in 1999 when it finishes planned operating room renovations. Not everyone thinks that's good news. Jim [...]

Increasing demand for surgery has SSM St.Mary's Health Center planning a $5 million upgrade of its operating rooms. St. Mary's will move two operating rooms from a nearby medical office [...]

Southwestern Bell Telephone is pulling its funding for the SBC Telecommunity Center. That will end a four-year run for the center, which provided free, basic computer access in 10,000 square [...]

Bunzl Distribution Inc. will pay $12 million to $48 million for the packaging distribution business of Kansas City-based Koch Supplies Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Paul [...]

WorkNet Communications Inc. became the latest victim of the sudden autumn chill in the Internet sector when it laid off employees in early November. The local telecommunications start-up recently called [...]

First he's a gangster. When the gangster gets rubbed out, he reappears as a doctor in a Groucho Marx grease-pencil mustache. Then he's a bumbling detective with a thick French [...]

Mercy Health Plans Inc. is offering online quotes to small businesses. Mercy, a managed care company owned by Sisters of Mercy Health System--St. Louis, has given out 216 price quotes [...]

Telecom start-up Omniplex Communications Group has ventured into the Internet service business with the acquisition of Marz Inc. The price was not disclosed. But based on Marz's customer base, its [...]

Hautly Cheese covers the full cost of health-care coverage for its 17 employees, but owner Alan Hautly said he's recently had to shoulder some of the risk him self to [...]

John Burse, wants to see 100 new houses rise from the ground on the near north side of the city of St. Louis. Don't misunderstand. Burse, an architect with Mackey [...]

The Plumbers and Pipefitters union is attempting to organize maintenance workers at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Representatives of the union and Barnes-Jewish presented arguments on who should be in the bargaining unit [...]