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CEO Susan Witcher said her Faultless Laundry Co. had diversified to embrace shifting markets. The company also looks for ways to cut waste and “go green.”
    FRED BLOCHER | The Kansas City Star
    CEO Susan Witcher said her Faultless Laundry Co. had diversified to embrace shifting markets. The company also looks for ways to cut waste and “go green.”

    Profile: Faultless Laundry Co. builds its success on people

    - 10:00 PM CDT

    Have you eaten out lately? If you used a cloth napkin during your meal, it may have been laundered by the Faultless Laundry Co., a Kansas City business established in 1896.

Cityscape

Leawood company reinvents the hardware store

A new Leawood-based company plans to open a new hardware store concept in Overland Park. SWC Hardware is taking over the 30,000-square-foot former Price Chopper store in the Nall Hills Shopping Center at 9628 Nall Ave., hoping to open in early fall.

  • Noteworthy: Workers’ comp group

    - 11:39 AM CDT

    The law firm of Constangy Brooks & Smith has created a workers’ compensation group in its Kansas City office with the addition of Michelle Daum Haskins, formerly of Evans & Dixon. The firm represents employers exclusively in labor and employment law matters.

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Bernadette McDevitt (from left), Camille Vieux, Kevin Clune and Mary Kay Clune of Clune & Co. with some of the new marketing tools they use to change business.
    Susan Pfannmuller | Special to The Star
    Bernadette McDevitt (from left), Camille Vieux, Kevin Clune and Mary Kay Clune of Clune & Co. with some of the new marketing tools they use to change business.

    Best practices: Clune & Co. adapts operations to fluctuating market

    - 10:00 PM CDT

    Company: Clune & Co. provides equipment vendors with financing and leasing arrangements for customers.

MORE EMERGING BUSINESS STORIES

  • Best practices: Partner’s death forces owner to rethink business plan

    - 11:09 PM CDT

    Company: A Shear Thing Salon Telephone: 913-631-8448 Address: 12213 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee

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Rob Cox’s inventory control franchise works for such businesses as Jared Allen’s Sports Arena and Grill.
    FRED BLOCHER | The Kansas City Star
    Rob Cox’s inventory control franchise works for such businesses as Jared Allen’s Sports Arena and Grill.

    Buy-in: Franchising provides unique opportunity for Bevinco of Kansas City Northland

    - 11:09 PM CDT

    Business: Bevinco of Kansas City Northland; 816-419-2989; www.bevinco.com. About the business: Bevinco, based in Toronto, is a beverage inventory control service for restaurant and bar owners. The business records all liquor, beer and wine that is poured and reports any discrepancies to clients.

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To get his microbrewery/restaurant open in San Antonio, Scott Metzger arranged financing with a credit union.
    Eric Gay | The Associated Press
    To get his microbrewery/restaurant open in San Antonio, Scott Metzger arranged financing with a credit union.

    Entrepreneurs find bank alternatives

    - 11:09 PM CDT

    Scott Metzger wanted to start a restaurant-microbrewery in San Antonio. His credit was good. His business plan was sound. He should have had an easy time getting financing.

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