Monsanto Co. plans to acquire Marmot S.A., which operates Central America's largest corn seed company, Semillas Cristiani Burkard. Terms were not disclosed, and it wasn't immediately clear when the deal would be finalized. Monsanto says the acquisition solidifies the Creve
If it were possible to peer into one of the Army's tiny ground sensors in about a year, you might find an alcohol-powered fuel cell developed by Akermin Inc. The Creve Coeur-based company said Wednesday that it has signed a
Natural gas bills for Laclede Gas Co. customers will rise by more than $4 a month this summer after Missouri regulators on Wednesday approved a requested increase in fuel costs. The 12 percent increase takes effect on June 19. The
WASHINGTON • Washington lawmakers can do little, if anything, to stop InBev's proposed $47.5 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos. But don't tell that to InBev CEO Carlos Brito. Before the Belgian beer executive landed in Washington this week, his company
In the 11 days after Nickolas Vande Steeg's resignation from Insituform Technologies Inc.'s board, two documents surfaced that offer conflicting reasons for why he left without ever attending a board meeting. Last week, Vande Steeg — the only one of
Attorney General Jay Nixon on Wednesday sued affiliates of Forever Enterprises Inc. of Clayton, saying that they continued to sell prepaid funeral contracts after another affiliate agreed to stop selling them on April 9. The lawsuit, filed in St. Louis
Natural gas bills for Laclede Gas Co. customers will rise by more than $4 a month this summer after Missouri regulators on Wednesday approved a requested increase in fuel costs. The 12 percent increase takes effect on June 19. The
WASHINGTON — Washington lawmakers can do little, if anything, to stop InBev's proposed $47.5 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos. But don't tell that to InBev CEO Carlos Brito. Before the Belgian beer executive landed in Washington this week, his company
Akermin Inc. has signed a one-year, $1 million contract with the Army to develop prototype fuel cells that will power ground sensors that transmit data to military bases from war zones, borders and other top-secret locales. The company hopes this
