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We do that with editorial themes that rotate throughout the year, providing enterprise coverage that explores how market conditions, economic trends, executive achieve ment, and other factors are influ encing growth and investment in a region that runs from Topeka to Seda lia, from St. Joseph to Harrisonville. By doing so, we connect executives and business owners with actionable intel to help them frame their own decision-making. We layer over that a robust pro gram of business and individual achievement awards, recognizing the best employers, rising young execu tives, outstanding health-care pro viders, pinnacle educators, and oth ers who set standards. By doing so, we connect the regional executive community with high achievers who present new business opportunities. Yet another layer comes with our industry ranking lists, updated each year to inform the community of the top performers in banking, profes sional services, health care, educa tion, real estate sales, construction, venture capital, and literally dozens of other disciplines. By doing so, we connect potential customers with pro- ven market leaders. Lud Gaines started it all with a single platform: a monthly print magazine. We’ve taken the baton from him and added other means of sharing this wealth of content with Ingram’s overs y of s y o. April/May, 1978 July, 1979 February, 1979 of e 5. Ingram’s today is a number of things, but if we had to boil it down to a single word, we’re about CONNECTIONS. special publications, such as our Chiefs’ Super Bowl tributes, with an increasingly robust online presence addressing the biggest news develop ments daily, and with Ingram’s Execu tive Insights, a series of daily, themed newsletters that provide additional business insights to tens of thousands of subscribers. Much has happened in this re gion—good and bad—since that first issue of Outlook came off the presses in December 1974. As we’ve learned over the years—and relearned, ex amining more than 600 issues since then—is the importance of serving as an archiver of the biggest of business trends in this region, of the most in fluential of business personalities, of the most successful companies, and of the region’s greatest collection of thought leadership from executive suites. It’s been a lot to pack into one working lifetime. In 50 years, the United States has overcome seven recessions, including the biggest one of all that didn’t earn distinction, the Great Depression, and the sharpest one of all, brought on by the global pandemic. Bankruptcy has claimed one-time business icons like Woolworth’s, Sears, and Kodak. Financial services firms like Lehman Brothers, PaineWebber, and Arthur Andersen have gone away, replaced in the roll call of U.S. business icons by both the wildly profitable—Microsoft, Ap ple, Google, etc.—and the question ably trendy (think Uber/Lyft, Bird/ Lime and other companies with eye brow-raising bottom-line numbers). Travel companions Eastern Airlines, Pan-Am, and TWA are no more. Such has been the pace of change that even some monster corporate brands have both come and gone, a la Blockbuster. Often, what’s gone away has been replaced by something better, cheaper or more easily ac cessed. As we moved from DVDs to New Looks, Same Mission: From its first issue as Outlook through its transition to Corporate Report Kansas City and, finally, Ingram’s , the magazine has focused on the trends, people and issues of greatest significance to business executives.

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