Lee's Summit Economic Development Council

EsOurCEs fOr lOCal EMplOYErs
Business retention and expansion is an art, not a science. Each company’s needs are unique, but
fortunately, there are increasing resources in the KC Metro area to tap into.
A few services that LSEDC has accessed to date include: Missouri Enterprise, Mid-America Trade
Adjustment Center, KCSourcelink, and Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac just to name a few.
Business Retention
We have had considerable success with Missouri Enterprise. Four Lee’s Summit companies—American
Foodservice, Creative Blow Mold Tooling, R & D Tool and Engineering Group and Venture Industrial—have
initially qualified for a combined total of $29,200 of grant monies with the potential of more to come.
Missouri Enterprise provides a variety of services to business/industry at either no cost or reduced costs
through matching funds as a result of federal and state grants they have been awarded. Their management
consulting and engineering assistance helps grow and retain companies that are being faced with a myriad
of changes either internally or in their industry. Companies qualifying for this grant receive $7,300 of
initial assessment services with benchmarking of their company against other companies in the same
industry, an extensive “walk through” of their company and written feedback on potential areas for
improvement.
Using this information, Missouri Enterprise is then in position coordinate needed services, training and
other potential grant monies to assist the companies in making the recommended improvements to set
them more firmly on course for continued growth and success.
For more information about these and other available resources, check out the newest addition to our
website, Small Business Resources. (http://www.leessummit.org/sbr1ent.asp).
Lee’s Summit Entrepreneurs
U.S. military pilots rely on Chris & Brian Lincoln’s Lee’s Summit-based Ultrax, Inc.
to keep their helicopters and jets safe and flight ready.
Keeping our troops
in the air
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Our troops defending us around the
globe can thank two Lee’s Summit
entrepreneurs and their 22 employees
for keeping their aircraft safe and flight
worthy.
Ultrax, Inc. manufactures aircraft
component testing equipment for
the U.S. military and our allies. Their
UX Validator is a portable unit that
checks auto flight control systems on
Blackhawk and other helicopters in
theater. Ultrax also tests F-15 Fighter
Jet communications equipment in their
Lee’s Summit plant.
The brothers combined their talents in
electronics and software development to
start the business in 1995. Today they’re
proud to support our troops while
providing quality jobs for their highly
trained and skilled associates.
Learn more at www.ultraxinc.com.