Tag: Thalia Cherry

Cherry catches history with new Chiefs playoff collection — a first for a female designer

By Tommy Felts / January 14, 2025

An exclusive apparel collection from the Chiefs and fashion-forward brand Cherry is taking the field ahead of Kansas City’s latest playoff appearance. And the woman wearing the cherry-red captain’s patch: a familiar face within Kansas City sports and entrepreneurship. “This collaboration means the world to me,” said Thalia Cherry, who founded Cherry Co. in 2012.…

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Mayor appoints city’s first Small Business Task Force as investment in KC entrepreneurs

By Tommy Felts / October 3, 2023

Small businesses have the potential to thrive in Kansas City in ways unlike other metros across the country, said Christine Lau, highlighting how the city’s unique spirit will play a role in a newly created Small Business Task Force for KCMO. “We have a grit and tenacity that I haven’t seen anywhere else,” said Lau,…

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Cherry enters the endorsement game, scoring NIL deals that also boost female college athletes

By Tommy Felts / January 3, 2023

Partnering with college athletes is a natural elevation of sports apparel company Cherry Co., said Thalia Cherry. The KC-based brand signed agreements with 18 athletes for NIL (name, image, likeness) endorsement deals, shared Cherry, founder and CEO. “It’s a perfect alignment,” she continued. “We were already working with professional athletes in some capacity. So when…

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Chris Goode, Ruby Jean's Juicery

Junior Achievement honoring Ruby Jean’s founder with its 2022 KC Innovator Award

By Tommy Felts / May 27, 2022

A group hoping to inspire the next generation of leaders, thinkers and doers has tapped a young entrepreneur with a healthy appetite for expansion as its next KC Innovator Award winner. Chris Goode, founder of Ruby Jean’s Juicery, is set to be honored with the award Nov. 1 during the Junior Achievement of Kansas City’s…

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Keenan Beasley, Venture Noire

In the Black: Why Venture Noire is bringing capital resources from Arkansas to KC’s founders of color

By Tommy Felts / September 14, 2021

It’s time Black-led companies went from over-mentored and under-resourced to well-connected and infused with capital, Keenan Beasley said, announcing plans for establishing more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems that begin, in part, with a presence in Kansas City.  “Kansas City is a very mature market,” Beasley, founder of Venture Noire, said of what he’s observed among the…

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