Status and Health of Local Corporations

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Status and Health of Local Corporations

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This thread is to discuss the health and life or death of corporations in the Kansas City CSA.

AMC: AMC announced Monday that they had raised $900 million in debt and equity financing to keep the business alive through late 2021. The 700% stock spike this week allowed the company to shed $600 million of their $5.5 billion in debt as creditors converted to shares. AMC is considering an additional stock sale to pay off debt and to generate an additional cash cushion. Regardless of an additional offering, AMC has set themselves up to survive. Now we just have to wait for their return to downtown!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.ya ... 13894.html

MGP Ingredients: This Atchison Kansas based distillery announced a $500 million buyout of Luxco of St. Louis. MGP is currently valued at $1 billion.

ChowNow: From their HQ2 in the Crossroads, ChowNow provides online ordering infrastructure, custom apps/websites, and other ancillary services to restaurants across the US and Canada.
ChowNow has experienced tremendous growth this year as thousands of restaurants joined their platform. This has led to the hiring of hundreds of new employees and significant increase in revenue.
This year (2020), ChowNow has:

Helped 20,000 restaurant partners process over $2 billion in orders in 2020, with 100% of sales going directly to the restaurants resulting in $500 million saved in commissions.
Added 8,000 restaurant partners and over 10 million diners nationwide to the ChowNow platform since the start of the outbreak.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 6354.html
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Isn’t amc currently one of the meme stocks?
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Riverite wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:49 am Isn’t amc currently one of the meme stocks?
Yes, AMC made some important announcements earlier in the week and then the meme thing only helped them. Debt holders started converting debt to equity and AMC is now exploring additional equity sales at these inflated prices to raise cash to pay back more debt.
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normalthings wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:57 am
Riverite wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:49 am Isn’t amc currently one of the meme stocks?
Yes, AMC made some important announcement earlier in the week and then the meme thing only helped them. Debt holders started converting debt to equity and AMC is now exploring additional equity sales at these inflated prices to raise cash to pay back more debt.
Oh interesting worked out well for them then. Thanks for the information
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CorEnergy headquarters will move to Denver after bankruptcy. The company is located at 1100 Walnut in the former Town Pavilion (1111 Main).

CorEnergy will emerge from bankruptcy with a new CEO, HQ location
CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust won approval for its reorganization plan from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Kansas City, but it will be leaving the metro area.

In addition to changes for shareholders, the Kansas City-based company (OTC: CORRQ) will move its headquarters to Denver, ...

Still, the company’s average annual revenue growth from 2020 to 2022 landed it at No. 1 on last year’s Fastest-Growing Businesses List, reporting $133.65 million in revenue for 2022. As of May 27, CorEnergy had a market cap of $1.63 million.
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... 1&empos=p4
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FangKC wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 7:27 pm CorEnergy headquarters will move to Denver after bankruptcy. The company is located at 1100 Walnut in the former Town Pavilion (1111 Main).

CorEnergy will emerge from bankruptcy with a new CEO, HQ location
CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust won approval for its reorganization plan from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Kansas City, but it will be leaving the metro area.

In addition to changes for shareholders, the Kansas City-based company (OTC: CORRQ) will move its headquarters to Denver, ...

Still, the company’s average annual revenue growth from 2020 to 2022 landed it at No. 1 on last year’s Fastest-Growing Businesses List, reporting $133.65 million in revenue for 2022. As of May 27, CorEnergy had a market cap of $1.63 million.
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... 1&empos=p4
I wonder why a company coming out of bankruptcy needs to take on the major expense of moving its HQ employees to another city? They must not have that many employees.
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Don't you think it's linked to the change of CEO?
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missingkc wrote: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:51 pm Don't you think it's linked to the change of CEO?
Oh it's most likely the singular reason. I don't know how large the company is and how costly such a move will be but my experience is that no CEO is ever worth those kind of changes to a company. That's the second company KC has lost because the CEO didn't live here or want to live here. It's mind boggling to me that a company would uproot its workforce for the CEO. They are not a commodity in short supply.
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Highlander wrote: Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:23 pm
missingkc wrote: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:51 pm Don't you think it's linked to the change of CEO?
Oh it's most likely the singular reason. I don't know how large the company is and how costly such a move will be but my experience is that no CEO is ever worth those kind of changes to a company. That's the second company KC has lost because the CEO didn't live here or want to live here. It's mind boggling to me that a company would uproot its workforce for the CEO. They are not a commodity in short supply.
I think it’s that + size is very small.

Interestingly, Carnival’s CEO was forced to commute to from St Louis to Miami or work out of a small office in Clayton
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A large health services company changed their corporate HQ from St. Louis to Avon CT (suburb of Hartford) because the new CEO had a country house nearby and liked to golf every day at the Farmington CC. I knew one of the other C-level peeps. Upper mgmt all moved also, but they left the worker bees in St. Louis, which necessitated a change in the start time from 8am to 7am (which is 8am in Connecticut). Lots of disgruntled workers.
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Farmers almost moved their claims center from Olathe to Phoenix a few years ago. Rumor was that someone high up was having an affair with someone living there and wanted an excuse to spend more time there. Thankfully (?), the Phoenix office had terrible turnover and poor file quality, and they started hiring in KC again. This was all before the new CEO came in about 18 months ago and ordered layoffs, of course.

Not sure if there's anything we can learn from that. Invest in a team of honeypots to lure CEOs to town? Think of all the spending they could do at the Plaza!
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Kansas City's lone Fortune 500 entry drops 50 spots on new list
The Kansas City area’s lone entry on the Fortune 500 took a tumble in the new rankings, but held on.


Seaboard Corp
. ranked No. 414 on the new Fortune 500 released Tuesday. It has been the only area-based company on the list — which ranks U.S.-based companies that report financial with the Securities and Exchange Commission — for the past three years. Another four area companies were included in the Fortune 1000.
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Despite the decrease in revenue, Seaboard remains No. 1 on the Kansas City Business Journal’s list of area public companies by a margin of roughly $4 billion over No. 2 Evergy Inc. (ranked No. 597).
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Also on the Fortune 1000:

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. ... ranked No. 659, an improvement from last year’s ranking of No. 762. ...

Euronet Worldwide Inc. ... ranked No. 796 on the new Fortune list, an improvement of 43 spots from the previous year. ...

H&R Block Inc. ... ranked No. 822 on the new Fortune list, six spots better than the previous year. ...
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The two largest companies by value/ financial size in KC are private, and therefore not reflected on the Fortune list. Namely, Hallmark and BATS (which is technically in Lenexa).
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I don't know about BATS, but I believe Hallmark has been dithering at 4 billion for 30 years. The smallest company on the 500 list had 7.2 billion in income. Hallmark's not even close. KC does have some other "large" private companies. Maybe one of them would squeak under the wire.
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missingkc wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 7:29 pm I don't know about BATS, but I believe Hallmark has been dithering at 4 billion for 30 years. The smallest company on the 500 list had 7.2 billion in income. Hallmark's not even close. KC does have some other "large" private companies. Maybe one of them would squeak under the wire.
Bats was bought out by cboe years ago
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^yes -- was using its old name
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At least we have Seaboard's sizeable corporate campus and downtown tower to anchor us as a metro region and economic powerhouse. Oh, wait, they're in a three-story bland suburban office building in Merriam.
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Its quite sobering when you see cities like Toledo, Omaha, Richmond and Providence dwarfing KC on that list.
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all our companies that do well get snatched up by other businesses and move. We seem to lack the business leaders who are interested in keeping their business in town when it comes time to cash in on a merger. Hopefully there are business that are here now doing very well that can aspire and grow to be a Fortune 500 with a desire to stay in KC and continue to prosper in KC. The old guard companies have shifted and moved on. Time to cultivate the "new kids on the block" so to speak and continue to develop and grown new businesses to keep the pipeline full.
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Rusty Irish wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 10:42 am Its quite sobering when you see cities like Toledo, Omaha, Richmond and Providence dwarfing KC on that list.
A function of our poor university system and a bit of bad luck. I’m just as alarmed that the pipeline of potential unicorns is near non-existent locally.

Seems like there are no prospective F500 or IPO’s
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