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Greater Kansas City Profile

International Presence

The Kansas City region offers world-class museums, great neighborhoods and schools, parks and local art galleries, ballet and opera, Broadway shows, classic and contemporary art, professional sports– you’ll find a sophisticated and metropolitan environment in Kansas City.

The Kansas City metropolitan area is the home to many well recognized international companies, including Bayer CropScience, Bayer Health Care, Danisco Ingredients USA, Fuchs Lubricants, Huhtamaki Americas, Nestle Purina Petcare Global, and Thyssen Krupp Access.

AIR SERVICE

The Kansas City metropolitan area is served by 11 major commercial airlines and their connection partners. These carriers offer approximately 200 daily departures, with nonstop service to over 50 destinations and one-stop destinations to most major national and international destinations.

The presence of low-cost, low-fare airlines, as well as most of the full-service majors, keeps competition up and airfares down. Kansas City enjoys one of the lowest-cost air travel markets in the country. Travelers experience fewer delays at Kansas City International Airport than most major airports.

According to J.D. Power & Associates, Kansas City International (MCI) ranks highest among medium-sized airports, and performs particularly well in airport accessibility, check-in/baggage check and security check.

INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICE: EUROPE

Destination	Daily Flights	Quickest Route	Average Elapsed Time (Hrs.)
KC (MCI) to London (LHR)	21	Through Chicago O'Hare (ORD): 9.8 Hrs.	11.6
KC (MCI) to Amsterdam (AMS)	14	Through Minneapolis (MSP): 10.4 Hrs.	12.1
KC (MCI) to Paris (CDG)	11	Through Newark (EWR): 10.9 Hrs.	12.1
KC (MCI) to Munich (MUC)	4	Through Chicago O'Hare (ORD): 12.0 Hrs.	12.9
KC (MCI) to Frankfurt (FRA)	14	Through Chicago O'Hare (ORD): 10.8 Hrs.	12.5
Connection Cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington, D.C.

INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICE: ASIA

Destination	Daily Flights	Quickest Route	Average Elapsed Time (Hrs.)
KC (MCI) to Beijing (PEK)	5	Through Chicago O'Hare (ORD): 16.2 Hrs.	17.6
KC (MCI) to Seoul (ICN)	18	Through San Francisco (SFO): 16.6 Hrs.	18.5
KC (MCI) to Shanghai (PVG)	5	Through Chicago O'Hare (ORD): 16.3 Hrs.	18.4
KC (MCI) to Tokyo (NRT)	11	Through Minneapolis (MSP): 15.0 Hrs.	16.5
KC (MCI) to Delhi (DEL)	4	Through Chicago O'Hare (ORD): 18.3 Hrs.	19.1
Connection Cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington, D.C.

Source: Kansas City Aviation Department.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The KCADC business development team works closely with the international development departments of the state of Kansas and state of Missouri.

Kansas

The Kansas Department of Commerce works with new and existing businesses wishing to expand their service reach to the international marketplace. The department also takes an active role in bringing international business to the state. The state maintains overseas offices in Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom involved in both trade promotion and recruitment of investment. Services to Kansas businesses include the following programs:

• International investment recruitment
• Export assistance to Kansas companies
• Kansas International Trade Show Assistance Program

The Department's Trade Development Division (TDD) provides assistance to Kansas companies wishing to begin or expand their international marketing efforts. Assistance includes counseling, market research, identification of overseas agents and distributors, trade leads, coordinated marketing promotions, export seminars, international trade show assistance, overseas trade missions, etc.

The International Trade Show Assistance Program provides Kansas companies with reimbursement of one-half of their direct exhibition related-expenses at an international trade show, up to $3,500. Under the program, individual Kansas companies may receive up to $4,000 per state fiscal year.

Missouri

The International Trade and Investment Group in the Business and Community Division of the Missouri Department of Economic Development works to increase the number of Missouri companies exporting; increase the dollar volume of Missouri exports; and to increase the level of foreign investments to the State of Missouri.  Building relationships with organizations across the globe creates resource linkages that enhance the competitive position of Missouri firms. There are State of Missouri offices in China, Europe, Japan, Mexico and Taiwan.

The International Trade and Investment Group assists companies with trade information, trade counseling, trade missions, trade shows, business protocol, global market research, agent/distribution searches, competitive analysis, export finance assistance, and certificates of Free Sale.

The state of Missouri Export Finance Program is a cooperative effort between the Missouri Department of Economic Development and the Missouri Development Finance Board. The State of Missouri Export Finance Program focuses on the export finance programs of several federal and international agencies.  Missouri companies exporting can use the export finance programs of the Export – Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) and the international programs of the Small Business Administration (SBA). There are primarily two programs available to small and medium-sized companies:  the Export Working Capital Program and the Export Credit Insurance Program. These programs are designed to help small and medium-sized businesses that have exporting potential obtain export working capital and also mitigate risks in international transactions.

Missouri companies export to countries around the world and often export dependent jobs pay higher wages.  Global markets greatly impact export dependent industries in the State of Missouri.  If you would like to learn more about the International Trade and Investment Group, please visit their website at www.missouridevelopment.org.

 

 

DEFINING THE GREATER KC METRO AREA

Kansas City is a Missouri/Kansas bi-state metropolitan area. All statistical references made to Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) include the counties of Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The greater Kansas City area also includes the adjoining Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS MSAs, as well as the Atchison, KS, Chillicothe, MO, Ottawa, KS, and Warrensburg, MO areas.