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Greater Kansas City Profile

Home to 2.4 million people, Kansas City is a bi-state region including the Kansas City, MO-KS, Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS metropolitan areas, as well as adjacent non-metro counties that include the cities of Warrensburg and Chillicothe, MO, and Atchison, KS.

In Greater Kansas City, you'll find:

• One of the fastest growing major job markets in the Midwest
• Lower business and lifestyle costs than most major metros
• A well-educated, extremely productive workforce
• The most geographically-central major metro in the country

Kansas City's major corporate players with headquarters in the Kansas City area include:

Major Corporate Headquarters in KC

AMC Entertainment Aquila Black & Veatch Burns & McDonnell Capital Federal Financial Cerner Corporation Commerce Bancshares DeBruce Grain DST Systems Fort Dodge Animal Health Garmin Great Plains Energy

H&R Block Hallmark Cards Hill's Pet Nutrition Interstate Bakeries JE Dunn Newport Television Payless ShoeSource Perceptive Software Seaboard Corporation Sprint Corporation UMB Financial Westar Energy YRC Worldwide

Kansas City's combination of big-city business amenities and small-market ease of living have made the metro a magnet for investment. Recent announcements to either locate significant new operations or expand existing operations have been made by:

Recent New & Expanded Operations in KC

Alcoa-SIE Cargo Conversions American International Group Bayer Corporation Caremark Rx Citi Cards DHL Farmers Insurance Federal Express Federal Express Ground Fidelity National Financial Fort Dodge Animal Health General Motors Harley-Davidson Motor Company IndyMac Bank International Speedway Corp

Intervet John Deere Kimberly-Clark Liberty Mutual Group Lowe's MasterCard International MWI Veterinary Supply Pacific Sunwear Prescription Solutions State Street Synbiotics Corporation T-Mobile USA Target U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Wal-Mart

 

DEFINING THE GREATER KC METRO AREA

Kansas City is a Missouri/Kansas bi-state metropolitan area. All statistical references made to Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) include the counties of Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The greater Kansas City area also includes the adjoining Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS MSAs, as well as the Atchison, KS, Chillicothe, MO, Ottawa, KS, and Warrensburg, MO areas.