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November 2011 - Posts
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 Women’s specialty clothing retailer Chico’s and its Soma Intimates sister brand will open discount concept locations at Legends Outlets Kansas City in the summer. The shopping center also plans an anchor announcement soon.
OTB Destination LLC, which was hired last year to spearhead the Kansas City, Kan., shopping center’s conversion to an outlet center, announced the deals Friday.
The new stores boost the Legends’ roster of outlet tenants to 30 stores. During the past couple of weeks, an American Eagle store at the Legends converted to an outlet...
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 National Football League labor negotiations took a turn for the worse on Friday afternoon with the NFL Players Association moving to decertify as a union. That means litigation may replace negotiation, in essence putting the brakes on professional football for the first time since 1987.
NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith had told NFL ownership that no extension of the talks would be granted unless they coughed up 10 years of audited financial records by 4 p.m. When the owners didn’t meet the deadline, the players’ union filed paperwork in federal court in Minneapolis to decertify the...
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An effort by Shawnee Mission School District parents to challenge the constitutionality of school finance in Kansas has been thrown out by a federal judge.
On Friday, Judge John Lungstrum dismissed a lawsuit filed in December claiming that local-option budget caps imposed by Kansas lawmakers and regulators run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.
Local-option budgets let school districts raise additional tax revenue in their districts, but only as much as 31 percent of the state money they receive.
The plaintiffs claimed that the 31 percent cap was unconstitutional because it impeded on their ability to raise their taxes to improve education within their...
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Yogurtini will open its first Kansas location early next month in Overland Park, the company said Friday.
Currently, the concept has three Kansas City locations.
Here is the company’s announcement:
TEMPE, Ariz., March 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Yogurtini® and YHI, Inc., a national and quickly growing self-serve frozen yogurt franchise originally established in Tempe, Arizona in 2008, announced today the migration of its popular serve-yo-self® concept to Kansas.
“We have had an amazing and wonderful response to the Yogurtini concept at our Midwest franchises in...
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 Kansas foreclosure activity rose 30 percent in February compared with a year prior, defying a national trend that shows foreclosure filings down 27 percent year to year. Missouri also contradicted the trend with a 10 percent increase, according to RealtyTrac’s latest U.S. Foreclosure Market Report.
Foreclosure filings in the Kansas City metro rose 21 percent from February 2010, also contradicting the national trend.
In Kansas, 1,039 properties — 0.08 percent — received some form of foreclosure filing in February, and 3,337 properties —...
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 Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed his first piece of legislation, a bill that allows businesses with more than 250 vehicles to register as fleets.
House Bill 2033, though probably not affecting state finances, is expected to eliminate the onerous process of individual vehicle registration for businesses with 250 or more. It also allows fleet registration with the Kansas Department of Revenue rather than individual county offices.
The bill becomes effective upon its publicaton in the Kansas...
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Veteran health care executive James Brophy is the first CEO of eHealthAlign, a Kansas City-based nonprofit health information exchange.
Brophy’s past experience includes being CEO of Saint Luke’s Northland Hospital and senior vice president of Truman Medical Centers. More recently, he was an executive with B.E. Smith, a Lenexa-based health care search and consulting.
Dr. Jason Mitchell, chairman of the eHealthAlign board, said Brophy is the first full-time employee hired for the...
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 The owners behind Prairie Village restaurants BRGR Kitchen + Bar and Urban Table, set to open in July, are changing their company’s name to Bread & Butter Concepts LLC to reflect its growth.
“We never really had a corporate name,” owner Alan Gaylin said. “As we decided to do multiple concepts, we felt like we needed a company name that had a little meaning to it.”
Previously, the company — also owned by Glynn and Jean Roberts — went by the name TEXAZ Restaurants LLC.
Urban Table’s space at 4000...
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NEW: NFL labor negotiations sour; players’ union moves to decertify
twice extended already
SportsBusiness Journal
The Chiefs have a big effect on hotels, restaurants and other...
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 Zouire Marketing Group has a big new opportunity to do business with The Coca-Cola Co.
Merriam-based Zouire, a privately-held company owned by Bicknell Family Holdings, has earned status as an authorized supplier for Coca-Cola’s custom merchandising programs.
“The net of it is that we, as a small local company, have an opportunity to work with the No. 1 iconic brand in the world, Coca-Cola,” said Jose DeJesus, executive vice president of sales. “Now, we have to get out there and get to the bottlers around the...
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Gallagher Benefit Services of Kansas City plans to make several acquisitions during the next few years, building on its recent purchase of Kansas City-based O’Herron Insurance Agency Inc.
Robert Clement, Gallagher’s area president, said much of the company’s overall growth during the past few years has involved acquiring small to midsize agencies looking for the back-room support and technology of a national firm.
“Five or six years ago, I called some local agencies, and they said they were fine and really not interested,” Clement...
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 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP has agreed to pay $68.5 million to settle allegations of deceptive marketing practices for its antipsychotic drug, Seroquel. Missouri is set to receive $1.5 million.
The settlement with 38 states marks the largest consumer protection-based pharmaceutical settlement ever reached. Kansas was among the states to receive a settlement, but a call to the state attorney general’s office was not immediately returned.
AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) allegedly marketed Seroquel for unapproved uses and failed to fully disclose the drug’s potential side effects, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said in a...
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BATS Global Markets said Friday that it has named Brian Schell as CFO.
In addition to the job of chief financial officer, Schell gained the title of senior vice president. He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services field, including 16 at H&R Block Inc. (NYSE: HRB).
In a release, BATS said Schell’s appointment is effective immediately. He reports to CEO Joe Ratterman.
Among the posts Schell held at H&R Block were CFO of the Tax Services and H&R Block Financial Advisors...
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