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MAKING HEADLINES
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The St. Louis
region and its companies often make national news. This column highlights
some of the most recent headline grabbers.
Council of PR Firms Recognizes Vandiver; Featured in PRWEEK
According to the Council of PR Firms, The Vandiver Group
is the seventh fastest growing PR company in the U.S. The attention
recently earned its founder, Donna Vandiver, a feature in PR
WEEK, a weekly journal for public relations and communications
professionals.
She started The Vandiver Group after a 20-year career in public
relations, first at KETC-TV then at Monsanto Co. At the start, in
1996, Vandiver ran her boutique firm from her home. It didn’t take
long for Vandiver to move out of the house and into a downtown office.
Today, the 20-employee firm works from The Vandiver Group offices
on Clayton Road in St. Louis County.
According to PRWEEK, boutique public relations firms are experiencing
tremendous growth in today’s economy. The firm’s clients are a combination
of corporate, non-profit and government organizations. The Vandiver
Group’s current roster includes International Paper, Solutia, UMB
Bank, and the Gateway Clean Air Program. For the latter, The Vandiver
Group created an award-winning campaign that earned a certificate
of creative excellence from the US International Film and Video
Festival.
Vandiver credits all the success to staffing and teamwork. The core
Vandiver philosophy is, “Take care of yourself, take care of each
other, take care of this place. If you do all that, things are likely
to work out.”
Geotechnology Among 50 Top Trenchless Design Firms in U.S.
Trenchless Technology magazine has named Geotechnology Inc.
of St. Louis as one of the “50 Top Trenchless Firms.” Trenchless
technology refers to the process of using underground boring techniques
to install and/or renovate underground infrastructure, rather than
digging trenches from the ground surface, which can be disruptive
to roads, traffic and landscaping.
Since 1996, Trenchless Technology magazine, which serves the utility,
pipeline and distribution construction markets, has ranked the top
50 trenchless engineering firms in North America. This is the first
year Geotechnology is in the top 50 rankings. The recognition derives
from Geotechnology’s extensive subsurface investigation work for
the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) on the six-mile
Baumgartner Interceptor Tunnel and Lift Station; the Creve Coeur-Frontenac
Relief Sewer; the Bates Street Relief Sewer; and the Skinker-McCausland
Sewer Tunnel.
St. Louis Among Top Choice Business Locations
In its annual feature on choosing a city for relocation or expansion,
the editors of Business Development Outlook magazine selected St.
Louis as one of the “2000 Choice Cities.”
Naturally, the story mentions the excitement of a metro area with
outstanding professional sports teams. With 10 Fortune 500 companies
calling St. Louis home, though, the readers know the area means
business. In fact, according to Outlook, St. Louis ranked
fifth for its “business condition” among the major metropolitan
areas. The article also mentions St. Louis’ recent ranking in Industry
Week as an ideal location for manufacturing, its citing in Business
Week as “one of the most affordable cities,” and the recognition
from Inc. Magazine as second on its “Inner City 100” as a
city that helps minority firms prosper. Add to that a diverse workforce
and access to nationally respected universities and Outlook had
a convincing story about St. Louis as a popular location for business.
To develop the list, the magazine looks at Department of Labor statistics,
U.S. Census Data, reports from the Federal Reserve and the Conference
Board, as well as information from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Using specialized software, the data ranks metropolitan areas on
criteria including education, business development, work force availability,
quality of life, crime and public safety, taxes and transportation.
The software was created for the World Economic Development Alliance
and develops a statistical profile with assigned values to the variables
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