Ingram’s January 2023

150 years (founded 1873) Lathrop GPM

Among the companies celebrating milestones in

2023, Ingram’s has identified the following organizations from our historical archive and from available state records: 180 Years (founded 1843) The Uhlmann Company (Heckers & Ceresota Flour) 165 Years (founded 1858) Baker University Benedictine College Great Western Manufacturing Co. 160 Years (founded 1863) Maur Hill-Mount Academy 155 Years (founded 1868) Byrd Memorial Co. Dengel and Son Mortuary Pioneer Mutual Life Insurance Co. 150 Years (founded 1873) Grant Renne & Sons Hutton Monuments Lathrop GPM Stuppy Greenhouse 145 Years (founded 1878) Stinson, LLP Walker Medical Linen Supply 140 Years (founded 1883) Central Natural Resources High School & Ministries Lawson Bank 135 Years (founded 1888) Morrow and Sons Mutual Savings Association Simonds-Shields-Theis Grain Co. 130 Years (founded 1893) Bank of Weston Capitol Federal Newcomer Funeral Service Group The Superior Linen Supply Co. U.S. Engineering Co. Western Roofing Co. 125 Years (founded 1898) Bob Florence Contractor Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. Johnson and Sons Monument Co. Kansas City Kansas Chamber of Commerce Western Chandelier Co. Horizon State Bank Saint Paul Lutheran

The oldest continuously operating law firm west of the Mississippi Riv er took on a new brand in 2020, when Kansas City’s Lathrop & Gage merged with Minneapolis-based Gray Plant Moody to form Lathrop GPM. It was a strategic alliance that added depth to services in the Midwestern core and created a robust national profile. It is a business law firm in the truest sense, with nearly 325 lawyers operating in 13 offices nationwide and serving a client base the firm calls “the backbone of our economy.” “Our clients run factories, build skylines, cure diseases, create jobs and power our world,” the firm declares. Stuppy Greenhouse No, you can’t buy your greenhouse-fresh plants and shrubs there, but because of the work they do at Stuppy Greenhouse, you can get your flora fix at locations across the nation: The North Kansas City company makes commercial, educational and research greenhouses. Five generations deep in its ownership, Stuppy has a corporate history that tracks with the rise of American horticulture. It produces heating solutions and growing sys tems that serve large-scale wholesale growers, commercial garden centers, schools, universities, botanical gardens and others. 145 years (founded 1878) Walker Medical Linen Supply How’s this for brand strength? The shirt-and-flatwork cleaners founded by the Walker family in 1878 operated under the Walker Laundry brand for 68 years, until it sold to Rubin and Jack Shapiro in 1946. More than 75 years later, the Walker name still resonates in this market. That’s be cause the Shapiro’s kept it as part of the rebrand to Walker Towel and Uniform in the 1950s, then Walker Medical Linen Services in 2011 as the focus sharpened on health-care linen services. The secrets of that lon gevity? The company cites its continuing investments in state-of-the-art equipment, more than 100 dedicated employees who average 19 years of service, and consistent service that has evolved to match changing customer needs. 135 years (founded 1888) Mutual Savings Association Checking. Savings. Credit cards. Loans. The formula is just that sim ple for Mutual Savings Association, which, as it happens, lives by a mot to: “Banking has never been simpler.” From its inception, the goal was to enable people in the Leavenworth region to become homeowners, ac crue savings, and secure their futures—a goal that hasn’t changed, the bank says. “The most significant factor to our ability to sustain strong financial performance and maintain our independence is our mutual ownership,” says president and CEO Josh Hoppes. “Being owned by our depositors eliminates the need to meet the demands of shareholders. This allows our board and management team to take a more long-term approach to running our company. At times forgoing short-term benefits for the sake of greater long-term success. Our mutuality has also allowed us to build significant capital, which has us well-positioned to take ad vantage of growth opportunities in the years ahead.”

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