We all know that Anheuser-Busch doesn’t qualify for Fortune 500 status any more, but it isn’t as if all the big headquarters have vanished. St. Louis officially has seven companies on the new list, and can claim eight if you…

Dow Jones and Bloomberg both are reporting on rumors that Rockwell Automation may get a takeover offer from St. Louis-based Emerson. Rockwell shares jumped 14 percent Wednesday on the buyout speculation and are up a bit more this morning.

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Emerson Chief Executive David Farr got total compensation of $12.8 million in the company’s latest fiscal year, a proxy statement discloses today. That compares with $22.2 milllion in fiscal 2007, when Farr got a bigger stock grant. But Emerson’s long-term…

The credit crunch has put some of Ameren’s construction projects on hold, but another major St. Louis company says it hasn’t had any trouble getting financing. During Emerson’s earnings conference call yesterday, investor relations director Lynne Maxeiner stressed that liquidity remains…

Fortune magazine gives St. Louis credit for eight companies in the new Fortune 500 list. That’s the same number as last year, which isn’t bad in this era of corporate consolidation. The Regional Chamber and Growth Association, though, wants to boost our number…

Hearing the back-to-back presentations by two local companies, Gridlogix and Waste Remedies LLC, made some Invest Midwest attendees think that perhaps St. Louis has something going in the facilities-management space. Both companies were part of the alternative-energy track at Wednesday’s venture capital…

A Boston Globe travel writer raves about a trip to St. Louis, which is nice, but she didn’t do her homework on local businesses. Fran Folsom writes:

Little did Laclède dream that his trading post would morph into the business hub…

David Farr, chief executive of Emerson, got $22.2 million in total compensation this year, as calculated in a proxy statement filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The biggest chunk, $16.1 million, was in stock awards. The number was high because…

The new Fortune 500 list is out, and it contains the same eight St. Louis companies as last year’s list. That’s down from a high of 11 local companies in 2000, before mergers took away such local names as May Department…

Ben Silverman of FindProfit.com has selected Emerson CEO David Farr for one of his year-end Noisey prizes. Farr’s category: the “Seven Dirty Words award.” Farr, it seems, used the s-word three times in conference calls in August and November. Silverman quotes this gem, used…