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Corporate Report 100 81 SAB Construction Gross Revenue: 2022: $51,666,815

Average Annual Growth Rate: 24.48%

Growth: 73.43% 2019: $29,791,607

4th Year Full-time employees: 36 SAB Construction, based in Lee’s Summit, builds single-family and multi-family homes in this region—nearly 1,450 total, at last count, in 16 area communities. With a core value that home-buying and construction are deeply personal experiences, the company has grown by offering new home plans, providing quality-built homes, capturing repeat business, and providing warranty processes. 82 Barkley Growth: 72.96% Average Annual Growth Rate: 24.32% 7th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $86,590,000 2019: $50,063,173 Full-time employees: 392 The rocket atop Barkley’s Crossroads headquarters is more than a visual symbol: it also stands for next-level growth at an advertising and marketing agency founded in 1964. There’s a reason the folks here consider their work to be Rocket Science. It is 100 percent employee-owned, a dynamic that the leadership says creates a climate ideal for fast decisions and actions as well as accountability. 83 Masters Transportation Growth: 68.79% Average Annual Growth Rate: 22.93% 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $127,350,000 2019: $75,450,000 Full-time employees: 142 From its base in Belton, south of Kansas City, Masters Transportation has become a national player in commercial vehicles for rent, lease, and purchase, mainly with buses, vans, and specialty vehicles. With a wide range of vehicles—truly: where else can you find a new, 57-passenger Freightliner?—the company offers new and used vehicles, along with parts, service, and financing guidance. 84 Burns & McDonnell Growth: 67.64% Average Annual Growth Rate: 22.55% 16th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $6,986,000,000 2019: $4,167,181,876 Full-time employees: 13,500 Anyone who doesn’t know about the growth rocket they’re riding at Burns & McDonnell simply hasn’t been paying attention. The region’s No. 1 engineering/construction firm has hired more high-level talent more rapidly than any other company in recent years, expanding its service lines and geographic footprint. It now has 13,500 people in offices worldwide, and 5,000 in KC. 85 Westlake Hardware Growth: 67.05% Average Annual Growth Rate: 22.35% 3rd Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $620,973,290 2019: $371,729,449 Full-time employees: 3,770 If you have a neighborhood hardware store nearby but it’s not flying the Westlake flag, have patience: The way this Lenexa-based company has been adding stores nationwide, it might not be long until yours is in the fold. But acquisitions alone have not accounted for the growth at Westlake: Americans’ love affair with upgrading their places in the work-from-home era has also driven sales. 86 KBP Brands Growth: 66.53% Average Annual Growth Rate: 22.18% 11th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $1,450,000,000 2019: $870,708,000 Full-time employees: 15,300 It all started in 1999 with the purchase of five fast-food outlets in Colorado. Since then, it’s been nothing but growth at KBP Brands, which through three operating divisions boasts KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, Arby’s, and A&W eateries— more than 940 have come into the fold since the company’s founding, with more than 15,000 employees in 25 states. 87 AstraWorks Growth: 64.57% Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.52% 3rd Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $16,790,000.00 2019: $10,202,498.00 Full-time employees: 14 Putting the manpower into the power sector, as well as enterprises in the design/build space, Kansas City-based AstraWorks helps employers in those fields find the talent they need for roles in project and construction management, engineering, operations, and other disciplines. Its services include direct hire, staffing, and staff augmentation, and has served employers in three dozen states. 88 Seaboard Corp. Growth: 64.37% Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.46% 8th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $11,243,000,000 2019: $6,840,000,000 Full-time employees: 23,000 The region’s largest publicly-traded company, Seaboard Corp. for all intents and purposes remains family owned, with the Boston based Bresky family owning the controlling interest in its shares. Based in Merriam, the company is responsible for pork, poultry and other protein-chain products shipped around the world, along with multiple other shipping and agribusiness interests. 89 Soave Enterprises Growth: 63.10% Average Annual Growth Rate: 21.03% 3rd Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $540,205,000 2019: $331,209,090 Full-time employees: 275 Baby Boomers who have sold their companies, people who have survived a pandemic and want to really live, and growing numbers of a high-net-worth investor class: All have fueled demand for better, faster, sleeker personal transportation. Soave, through its Aristocrat Motors operation, has met the demand for Mercedes, Porches, Range Rover, Maseratis, Jaguars, and Alfa Romeo brands. 90 Lutz Plumbing Growth: 62.54% Average Annual Growth Rate: 20.85% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $3,169,386 2019: $1,949,948 Full-time employees: 15 Three generations deep from its base in Shawnee, Lutz Plumbing offers plumbing repairs, remodeling, and installation. An expanded digital and broadcast marketing strategy, says owner Amber Lutz-Sewell, has helped fuel growth. Because of COVID 19 and the focus people have on their homes, she says, customers have been doing more higher-level remodels and upgrades.

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