Huber and Associates celebrated an expansion of the company's Mid-Missouri headquarters last week.
The company plans to hire 35 new employees over the next five years to qualify for special tax advantages that will allow it to retain the state withholding tax for six years, said Mike Downing, director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
"This is a very innovative company that is always looking to be on top of its game," Downing said. "They are growing because they look at what is the next step in the process of IT. We are really happy about their growth, and we know that will continue to grow in the future."
The company was started in Jefferson City in 1986 and has expanded to St. Louis and Kansas City, marketing manager Melissa Dunn said. The company is a certified woman-owned business. To get this certification, CEO Elizabeth Huber has to own more than 50 percent of the business and be very active within the business.
They were also celebrating the business's new addition of a Network Operations Center and a Business Partners Innovation Center. The Network Operations Center allows employees to monitor clients' networks and keep server down time to a minimum, Huber said. The Business Partners Innovation Center allows the employees to get hands on training for IT projects and operations.
"So we're really celebrating our ability to grow," Huber said. "The ability to hire so many more people is the big thing, because we needed the room. We were cramped upstairs so terrible that we were putting plastic tables for people to sit at because we had filed up every cubical."
They moved into the building ten years ago and now have taken over the floor beneath where they started, and acquired a separate building for executive offices.
"Look at the ads in the Yellow Pages," Huber said. "If you look through the last 28 years, IT companies come and go, come and go. You are going to see our ads in there and IBM's ads in there, and they will be about the only constant ones for the last 28 years."