Alight Analytics, a Kansas City-based provider of marketing analytics to advertising agencies and global brands, has been named one of Inc. magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2017. Alight was one of 233 companies selected from a pool of several thousand. The recognized companies were considered based on their company culture, employee engagement and benefits. Matt Hertig and Michelle Jacobs founded the company 10 years ago. “We couldn’t accomplish everything we have…

Parris Communications has announced that Laurie Roberts, the firm’s current chief operating officer, has been selected as the firm’s president. Roberts started as director of account services in 2001 after spending 17 years as a television and radio broadcast journalist. Parris Communications’ founder and CEO Roshann Parris, who launched the public relations firm in 1988, said she’s always believed that “members of our team organically develop into the role they are…

Sunflower Financial, Inc. and Strategic Growth Bancorp Incorporated have received the required regulatory approvals necessary to merge their holding companies and banking entities. The deal is expected to close on June 19. Sunflower is headquartered in Salina, Kansas, and is the parent company of Sunflower Bank and Logia Portfolio Management. Texas-based SGB is the parent company of First National Bank of Santa Fe, Capital Bank, SSB and Guardian Mortgage Company, Inc. Once the…

Boulevard Brewing Company is planning to break ground on a 24,000-square-foot, single-story building next to the current brewery on Southwest Boulevard. The $10 million expansion project will accommodate Boulevard’s canning line, which it introduced in 2015. The new state-of-the art canning facility will allow Boulevard to to fill 350 12-ounce cans a minute, with room to grow. “Demand for our canned beers has continued to grow since we first offered…