By that I meant the public companies that headquartered in St. Louis metropilitan area, or have significant presence in St. Louis area. I was surprised that I could not find anything like that on the web (I used Google). Anyway here are in the initial list I have:

Arch Coal (ACI): one of top 3 coal producers in the US; HQ at Creve Coeur, MO.

Amdocs (DOX): the telecom software and service company, has dual HQ in St. Louis and Israel.

AT&T (T): many of my Chinese friends worked for T in downtown St. Louis

Boeing (BA): one of the two airplane maker

Emerson(EMR): very respected company, I regard it as mini-GE

Energizer (ENR) Holdings: a holding company for Energizer battaries and Schick shavers. Consider it as a small rival of P&G, which has Gillete and Durcell. A spin off from Ralston-Purina. Purina was acquired by Neste (cafe) in 2002.

Express Script (ESRX), it’s next to my work place, how could I miss this baby past a few years?

MEMS (WFR): yet another semi-conductor got new life from solar

Monsanto (MON): it’s right across the street from my condo, and the stock is on fire recently.

Panera Bread (PNRA): how can forget this guy? I spent lots of time there

Ralcorp (RAH): boring store-brand food for grocery stores. I learned this business from my friend works for Sara Lee.

Sigma-Aldrich (SIAL): the chemical company services academic and research.

Among them I like MON for the near term. The following is a quote from Yahoo Finance.

You can refer to Yahoo Finance if you want to create a Badge like this.