ESS expands to Sedalia

With that ammunition in hand, Springfield-based Employee Screening Services Inc. expanded into Sedalia April 1. Conner isn’t stopping there – he has plans for new offices in Osage Beach and Kansas City, Kan., by summer.

Conner’s company has averaged 45 percent annual revenue growth since he bought it in February 2000 from Marcelyn and Gary Bunch. What started as a home-based endeavor with one car has grown into a company with 17 employees, revenues of $1.22 million and offices in six cities, soon to be eight.

ESS established its Springfield office in 2002 at 2055 S. Stewart, Ste. F. The company soon added offices in Rolla, Joplin, Lebanon and Columbia.

The Sedalia office cost about $21,000 to open and should generate $100,000 to $200,000 in new yearly revenues, Conner said. The planned Osage Beach office should generate “substantially more” in revenues because Conner foresees providing screening services to many of the area’s resorts.

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