The Kansas Department of Commerce provides a wide array of services and resources to help businesses locate, expand, hire, invest and grow in Kansas.
Whether you are looking for the right location in which to invest or resources for business expansion, job creation or international trade, our team is dedicated to your success in our state.
Kansas has been, and continues to be, aggressive in its efforts to grow our economy. Major companies such as Merck Animal Health, Geico, PBI Gordon, Garmin, Overstock.com, Amazon, Kiewit, Mars, Hostess Brands, Garmin, American Multi-Cinema, Dairy Farmers of America, Kubota, ServiceMaster and General Motors all have chosen Kansas as their preferred business location. These companies selected Kansas due to the business advantages our state offers, which can translate to increased performance and profits.
If you would like additional information, please use our “Contact Us” option at the bottom of the page or contact our business recruitment team.
Brett Sayre, Business Development Finance Manager
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Promoting Employment Across Kansas (PEAK) offers qualified companies the ability to retain 95 percent of their payroll withholding tax for up to five to 10 years.
Kansas Industrial Training (KIT) is a training incentive program to benefit companies creating net-new jobs in the state of Kansas.
KIR is a job retention tool that helps employees of restructuring companies who are likely to be displaced because of obsolete or inadequate job skills and knowledge.
Workforce AID addresses the skills gap currently challenging companies.
The KDOT plan includes an Economic Development Program to fund transportation improvements that can be shown to support job growth and capital investment in the state. All transportation modes are eligible, including roadway, rail, airport and public …
Many of our state utility partners can offer discounted rates or other costing-saving tools to assist companies looking to establish or grow their operations in Kansas.
In addition, SB339 recently passed allowing public investor-owned utilities access to a tool designed to attract new, very large electric utility economic development opportunities to the State of Kansas. With final approval by the Kansas Corporation Commission, this incentive provides a competitive rate to new customers with an electric demand of 50 MW or larger.
Eligible customers include non-retail industries such as data centers, aviation and other large-scale industrial development. Customers benefit from the special rate for 10 years. A new load of at least 50 MW must be located at a single location. Renewable resources can be incorporated into the rate making, providing for additional savings and allowing customers to meet their corporate goals.
In addition, companies committed to meeting corporate sustainability goals from renewable sources have several options to reach those targets, including a Renewables Direct program offered by the state’s largest utility that allows commercial and industrial customers to offset a percentage of their energy usage through a renewable resource. This program is designed to provide large customers a path toward their sustainability goals with abundant, affordable renewable energy. A number of utilities across the state also have wind and solar energy as part of their electricity portfolio, and other arrangements such as energy efficiency incentives may be offered by some service providers.
For more information please reach out to your Commerce project manager, and they will connect you with the appropriate utility partner.