BB&D Founding Member Bob Blitz Appointed to the University of Missouri Board of Curators

Governor Michael Parson announced the appointment of BB&D founding member Bob Blitz to serve on the University of Missouri Board of Curators. The Board of Curators the governing body for the University System and its four campuses University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri University of Science and Technology and University of Missouri-Kansas City. […]

Legislation Modifies Missouri’s Business Incentive and Worker Training Programs

SB 68 renames the Missouri Works Training Program to the “Missouri One Start Program,” which provides flexible funding for a company’s training costs associated with a new facility, expansion or retraining project.  Companies may utilize industry training funds to offset training costs for new products, new manufacturing processes, technological innovation, and productivity improvement.   Under SB 68, a company is no longer required to retain its current number of employees, instead becoming eligible by maintaining at least one-hundred jobs in the year preceding the application.