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STORES PUTS
CCA GLOBAL AND MAY BRIDAL AMONG TOP
STORES magazine has included CCA Global Partners and May Bridal among its list of the top 100 specialty store retailers in its August issue. CCA Global Partners, based in Earth City, ranked No. 8, with $8 billion in sales for 2003—a 33 percent increase over 2002. The company also increased its number of stores by 16 percent.
May Bridal earned the
No. 97 spot on the list with sales of $550,000 in 2003, an increase of 8.3 percent over 2002. The company added 60 percent more stores, bringing its total to 680.
SCHUPP COMPANY HEADQUARTERS FEATURED IN INC. MAGAZINE
Schupp Co., a St. Louis-based advertising firm, is featured in an article about creative building renovations in the September issue of Inc. magazine. Mark Schupp, founder and president of Schupp Co., purchased the firm’s office building in 1999 with the intent of preserving its architectural and historical significance. The building is a three-story, 40,000-square-foot structure that was originally constructed in 1896 for the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. Schupp credits The Lawrence Group of St. Louis for the success of the building’s design.
BIOTECH HIGHLIGHTED IN SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD
The success of St. Louis’s biotech industry was highlighted in an article written by Rick Moriarty for the July 14, 2004, edition of
The Post-Standard, a Syracuse, N.Y.-based newspaper. In the article, “Syracuse Research Corp. partners with others to boost its business,” Moriarty writes about the growth potential for companies that collaborate with each other and with academic institutions and research organizations within an industry “cluster.” He mentions St. Louis as an example of a region that has successfully used clustering to propel the growth of its bioscience industry.
“The industry employs 23,000 people in the St. Louis area, with an average pay of $69,800—significantly higher than the $34,000 average pay for private sector jobs in the region,” Moriarty writes.
He cites the region’s ability to start four venture funds that are worth approximately $300 million to help the region’s bioscience firms. “In addition,” Moriarty writes, “an industrial park for emerging biotechnology firms is being developed near downtown
St. Louis near the campuses of Washington University’s medical school and Saint Louis University.”
EXPANSION MANAGEMENT RANKS ST. LOUIS NEAR TOP FOR EXPANSION, ROLOCATION
The St. Louis area ranks No. 6 in the nation for corporate expansion and relocation among cities with a population greater than two million, according to an annual survey published in Expansion Management magazine’s July issue.
Seattle; Washington; Cincinnati; Pittsburgh and Dallas held the top five spots ahead of St. Louis. In the overall rankings, which evaluated cities of all sizes, St. Louis came in at No. 26. Des Moines, Iowa, Kansas City, and Seattle held the top three spots in that category.
The magazine’s research department compared and evaluated 331 metropolitan statistical areas according to a variety of factors that
corporate site selectors would consider when choosing a location for a new facility. Selectors evaluated each area’s public education,
college-educated workforce, health care costs and availability, quality of life, logistics infrastructure, and government taxes and spending.
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