Small businesses

What started with an unexpected travel delay has (eventually) taken off: a vending machine stocked with essentials for traveling with babies.

Ferguson residents will vote on who will serve the city's three wards April 8. Some residents have questioned if one candidate is living in the ward he’s representing.

Firaol Ahmed founded Moii Coffee from his dorm room to help fix a broken coffee supply chain and amplify the voices of Ethiopian coffee farmers.

The organization’s board of directors voted Thursday to approve the disbursement of $1,090,000 in operational expansion grants after a pause.

The nonprofit is hosting a pitch competition with a top prize of $6,000 and a holiday market with dozens of local vendors.

Shane and Amanda Byrne are the owners of Clickety Clack Typewriters, a new store in Rolla that sells and services old typewriters and is fostering a community of fellow enthusiasts.

Park Central Development opened the Eric Outlaw Business Center, a minority retail business incubator this month in the Grove. For the next 14 months, three Black women entrepreneurs will sell their products in the center to help scale their businesses.

It gives three north St. Louis neighborhoods a better platform to approach the city or private funding sources for economic development projects.

Shopping as a plus-size person is notoriously difficult. A new vintage thrift store, Ethical Bodies x the Good-ish, is working to change that.

St. Louis business leaders announce financial incentives aimed at bringing businesses downtown. They say $350,000 in grants and other incentives could attract retail shops, restaurants and pop-up enterprises.