2026 SBM Best In Business Reader Poll

Help Us Find The Best Businesses In St. Louis

Choose the best businesses in each category, or write in a business. The top 6 finalists and the winning entry will be featured in the "2026 Business Owners' Guide" Magazine, published in September. The Guide will not only contain a list of the "Best Businesses In St. Louis," but thousands of resources to help business owners run more profitable businesses. Advertising opportunities are available by calling Pat at 314-569-0076 or pat@sbmon.com.
The top winners will also be honored at a special luncheon Oct. 29, 2026, 11am-1pm at the St. Charles Convention Center.
Entries will end on July 5, 2026.

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* 1. Best Banks (Featured in May 2026)

Bank of America

Bank of Franklin County

Bank of Springfield

Bank of Washington

Carrollton Bank

Central Bank of St. Louis

CNB St. Louis Bank

Commerce Bank

Dieterich Bank

Enterprise Bank & Trust

First State Bank of St. Charles

First Bank

Great Southern Bank

INB

Lindell Bank & Trust

Midland States Bank

Midwest BankCentre

Midwest Regional Bank

New Frontier Bank

Paramount Bank

Parkside Financial Bank & Trust

Royal Banks of Missouri

Saint Louis Bank

St. Johns Bank

Triad Bank

UMB Bank

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Best Accounting Firms (Featured in May 2026)

Abeles and Hoffman

Alexander & Associates

Anders CPAs + Advisors

Biermann Straatmann, P.C.

Boone & Company, CPAs LLC

Burds and Kuntz

Conner Ash

Dillon Business Advisors

Dunn CPA Firm

Farmer & Associates CPA

Guardian Business Advisors

Hoffman, Bricker & Adams, P.C.

HKA CPAs & Advisors

HONKAMP

Kerber, Eck & Braeckel

Kiefer Bonfanti

MaddockHenson PC

Prosper CPAs

Renaud Tax and Accounting

RSM US LLP

RubinBrown

Schmersahl & Treloar & Co.

SFW Partners

Thousand CPA

Triton CPA

UHY, LLP

Wipfli

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Best Law Firms (Featured in June 2026)

Affinity Law Group LLC

Amundsen Davis Law

Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice

Blitz, Bardgett & Desutsch, L.C.

Byron Carlson Petri & Kalb, LLC

Capes Sokol

Clayborne & Wagner, LLP

Carmody MacDonald

Dill Bamvakais & O’Keefe, P.C.

Federer & Federer, P.C.

Growe, Eisen, Karlen Eilerts LLC

Hamilton Weber, LLC

Harness IP

Husch Blackwell

Kamykowski & Taylor, P.C.

Kreitler Law Firm, LLC

Lashly & Baer, P.C.

Lathrop GPM LLP

Law Office of Andrew Weinhaus

Leritz & Plunkert, P.C.

Lewis Rice

Linda Lewis Attorney at Law

Littler Mendelson P.C.

Mickes O’Toole

McMahan Berger

O’Brien Law Firm

Ott Law Firm

Quarles

Riezman Berger

Rynearson, Suess, Schnurbusch Champion

Spencer Fane

Stinson

Summers Compton Wells

Wasinger Daming, LC

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Best Public Relations Firms (Featured July 2025)

1905 New Media

Abstrakt Marketing Group

AHC Consulting

AMM Communications

Black Twig Marketing + Communications

Byrne PR

C&R Communications

Chemistry PR and Marketing

Common Ground Public Relations

Cork Tree Creative

Elasticity

ELittle Communications Group

Hauser Group

KolbeCo Marketing Resources

O’Malley Hansen Communications

Pattan & Company

Plotlines, LLC

Sage Marketing

Solomon/Turner Multimedia PR

Timmermann Group

V-Fluence

Weber Shandwick

Workman Communications Group

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Best Consulting Firms (Featured in March 2026)

Acumen Managed IT Services

Behne CPA LLC

Bergman Consulting Services

Code Consultants, Inc.

Conner Ash

EmCon Advisors

Forsyth Advisors

G.S. Advisors + CPAs

ImageNet Consulting St. Louis

MBI Worldwide

MDD Forensic Accountants

NetGain Technologies, LLC

Pearl Solutions Group

Poehlman & Prost, Inc.

Rice, Sullivan & Co. LTD

RTI Business and Consulting Services

Scott CPA

Simply Strategy

TEK Consulting, LLC

The Triton Group

Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA)

Volpe Consulting & Accounting Services

Woods & Company

Zick, Voss, Politte & Richardson

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Best in Value (Featured in Oct. 2025)

Acumen Consulting

Arsenal Credit Union

Cohen Architectural Company

Core & Main

Cunningham, Vogel & Rost, P.C.

David Sivcovich CPA P.C.

e3 Wealth

Farrell and Martin

Fox Financial Group

GFI Digital

Larson Capital Management

Matter Family Office

MBI Worldwide

MDD Forensic Accountants

Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C.

Scott Credit Union

St. Louis Community Credit Union

SteadyRain

SummerOne

The Chamberlin Group

The McKay Law Firm

Trivers

West End Advisory Group

Woods Basement

Volpe Consulting & Accounting Services

Zick, Voss, Politte & Richardson

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Best Marketing Firms (Featured in Nov. 2025)

1905 New Media

A Dose of Insight

Abstrakt Marketing Group

Acumen Studio

Atomicdust

BAM Marketing Agency

Blayzer Digital Marketing

Black Raven AFC

Cfx, Inc.

Captiva Marketing

Cork Tree Creative

Dovetail

Envision by Design

Fusion Marketing

CBG

GROW Marketing Agency

InBound Blend

Insite Advice SEO & Digital Marketing Agency

Kara Design Group

Matchbox Design Group

Seafoam Media

Sneller Creative Promotions

Spoke Marketing

SteadyRain

UPBrand Collaborative

VIE Media

Zeal Marketing & Consulting

Other (please specify)

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* 8. Best IT Firms (Featured in Dec. 2025)

Absolute Computer Solutions

Acument Managed IT Services

Alliance Tech

Alliance Technologies

Anderson Technologies, LLC

Amicus IT

C3 Business Consultants

CMIT Solutions St. Louis

Computer St. Louis

Computer Solutions

Computerease

Da-Com Corporation

EHPN Technology Partners

Essential Network Technologies

GadellNet Consulting Services

Inzo Technologies

IT Solutions

J&B Technologies

JJ Micro

Moore Computing

NetGain Technologies, LLC

NWO IT Services

P.C. Tech

Pearl Solutions Group

Strategic Technology Group

ThrottleNet

USA Cyber

Winning Technologies

Other (please specify)

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* 9. Best In Cyber Security (Featured in February 2026)

Alliance Tech

Alliance Technologies

Amicus IT

Anderson Technologies

Blade Technologies

CMIT Solutions

Computer St. Louis

Computerease

CompuType IT Solutions

Da-Com Corporation

GadellNet Consulting Services

IT Solutions

JJ Micro

J&B Technologies

Midwest Networking Services

NOC Technology

Network Technology Partners

NWO IT Services

Parameter Security

Pearl Solutions Group

SpearTip

SSE

Secure Data Recovery Services

TechGuard Security

ThrottleNet

Uptime Networks

Winning Technologies

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Best In Customer Service (Featured in Jan. 2026)

Abstrakt Marketing Group

Arch Brokerage, Inc.

Bank of Washington

Cammon Company

Compass Electrical Services

Delta Dental of Missouri

Farmer & Associates

Forvis Mazur

Franklin & Vaughn, LLC

G&A Partners

Goldenberg, Heller & Antognoli, P.C.

Hamilton Weber

Haskell HireLevel

Hovis & Associates

J&B Technologies

Jenkins & Kling

Midland States Bank

New Frontier Bank

Payroll Central

Rogers Sevastianos & Bante

Sapp Law Firm

Scott Credit Union

Sonus Benefits

Saint Louis Bank

SteadyRain

St. Johns Bank

The Miller Group

ThrottleNet

Triton Group

Other (please specify)

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* 11. Best Attorneys (Featured in Aug. 2025)

Jacque Albus, Harrison LLP

John Fox Arnold, Lashly & Baer, P.C.

Samuel Beffa, Carmody MacDonald

Guy Brandt, Berger, Cohen & Brandt

Christopher Byron, Carlson, Petri & Kalb, LLC

Timothy Callahan, Kilo, Flynn, Billingsley, Trame & Brown, P.C.

Richard Faulstich, Richard Faulstich Attorney at Law

Michael Figenshau, Gray Ritter Graham

Katherine Flett, Danna McKitrick, P.C.

Bob Guest, Affinity Law Group

Douglas Hickel, Summers Compton Wells

Jenna Hueneger, Stinson

Rachel Jeep, Copeland Thompson Jeep PC

Anne Kerns, Mickes O’Toole

Chris Lang, Nichols, Lang & Hamlin

Scott Malin, Lathrop GPM

Madeleine McDonough,

Shook, Hardy & Bacon

Mike McGlynn, McGlynn & McGlynn

Joseph Ott, Ott Law Firm

Robert Grant Penell, Robert Grant Penell Attorney and Counselor at Law

Melissa Powers, Lewis & Rice, LLC

Derek Ruzicka, Gausnell, O’Keefe & Thomas

Brian Sabin, Capes Sokol

Todd Sivia, Sivia Law Firm

Wm. Randolph Weber, Hamilton Weber, LLC

Pete Woods, Haar & Woods LLP

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Best M&A Providers (Featured in March 2026)

David Adam, Uthoff, Graeber, Bobinette & Blanke

Brent Baxter, Nolan & Associates

Brian Behrens, Carmody MacDonald, P.C.

Drew Bolinger, Bolinger Law Firm

Brian Bouquet, Lewis Rice

Guy Brandt, Berger, Cohen & Brandt, L.C.

James Chandler, Forvis Mazars, LLP

Jams Dankenbring, Spencer Fane LLP

Joe Demko, Amundsen Davis, LLC

Curt Finke, Kerber, Eck & Braeckel

Kevin Fischer, Norton, Rose, Fulbright LLP

Matt Harvey, RSM US LLP

Doug Hickel, Summers Compton Wells

Michael Hulsey, Hamilton Weber

Jeff Kalil, VR Business Brokers

Timothy Kastner, Lewis Rice

Thomas Lally, UHY Advisors

Matthew Leinauer, Capital For Business

Bryan LeMoine, Beckemeier LeMoine Law

Mike McKitrick, Danna McKitrick, P.C.

Jacob Orosz, Morgan & Westfield

Michael Regan, Lashly & Baer, P.C.

Mark Sauter, Premier Business Brokers

Nicholas Scholz, Husch Blackwell, LLP

Graham Stevens, Summers Compton Wells

Mark Temkin, Riezman Berger, P.C.

Richard Tishler, Riezman Berger, P.C.

Other (please specify)

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* 13. Best In Reliability (Featured in April 2026)

Anh Le, CPA

ATB Technologies

Baker, Sterchi, Cowden & Rice

Brown & James, P.C.

Burris & Associates, P.C.

Dillon Business Advisors

Farmer & Associates CPA

Gray Design Group

HALCON Marketing

Julia Demkovitch, CPA

Kane Mechanical Group, LLC

Karpal Solutions

Klemm & Associates

Liberty Bank

Mark S. Flieg CPA PC

MGD Law

Milton Law Firm

NOC Technology

Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal P.C.

Reinker, Hamilton & Fenley, LLC

Range Logistics

Remiger Design

TAG - The Audit Group

Wayne Contracting

Wilhelm & Wilhelm

Woodard

Woods Basement Company

Other (please specify)

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* 14. Most Innovative Companies (Featured in Sept. 2025)

1905 New Media

Advertising Savants

AE Consulting Services

Agile & Co.

Atomicdust

Bergman Consulting Services

Blayzer Digital Marketing

Brick Street Creative

Capacity, Inc.

CSI Telecommunications

Compass Electrical Solutions

EHPN Technology Partners

Engage Software

HALCON Marketing Solutions

J&B Technologies

Knowledgelake, Inc.

NOC Technology

PENTA Engineering

Spry Digital

SteadyRain

Swip Systems

Turnberry Solutions

Uptime Networks

VIE Media

Other (please specify)

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* 15. Best IP Attorneys (Featured in Jan. 2026)

Robert Bain, Stinson LLP

Harley Blosser, Sandberg Phoenix

Chad Brigham,

Goldenberg, Heller, Antognoli, P.C.

Christopher Carroll, The Small Patent Law Group

Daniel Cohn, Husch Blackwell

David Crawford, Crawford Law

Kirk Damman, Lewis Rice LLC

Dennis J.M. Donahue III, Carmody MacDonald

Grace Fishel, Law Offices of Grace J. Fishel

Cathy Futrowsky, Evans & Dixon, LLC

Benjamin Hulsey, Thompson Coburn

Michael Kahn, Capes Sokol

Steven Kazmierski, Stinson, LLP

Kevin Kercher, Practus, LLP

Julia Lange, Armstrong Teasdale

R. Emmett McAuliffe, Riezman Berger, P.C.

Alan Nemes, Husch Blackwell

Joseph Ott, Ott Law Firm

Glen Robbins, SpencerFane

Douglas Robinson, Harness IP

Anthony Simon, Simon Law

Mike Smith, Polsinelli

Morris Turek, YourTradeMarkAttorney.com

Bryan Wheelock, Harness IP

Other (please specify)

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* 16. Best Wealth Advisors (Featured in Feb. 2026)

Neal Albritton, Albritton Financial Services

Gary Baker, Undivided Wealth Management

Mike Clark, Clark Wealth Partners

Tim Egart, Brand Asset Management Group

Matt Fisher, Mariner Wealth Advisors

Jordan Green, Trankler Wealth Management

Ryan Green, Brand Asset Management Group

Michael Hauser, Hauser Group Wealth Management

Dan Hummert, LPL Financial

Tim Hammett, Visionary Wealth Advisors

Dan Henrichs, Krilogy

Vincent Klein, Cadeau Family Wealth

Patrick McGinnis, Moneta

Brian McGraw, Hightower Wealth Advisors

Shannon Moenkhaus, Clarity Financial Planners

Brian O’Donnell, The Chamberlain Group

John Owen, Hawthorne Capital Wealth Advisors

Kristin Poole, Krilogy

Emilie Schaffer, Focus Partners

Tim Schulze, Pioneer Wealth Management

Mark Schweiss, Modern Dollar Planning

Jason Thornton, Thornton Advisor Group

Craig Toberman, Toberman Becker Wealth

Joe Weinbauer, Weinbauer Financial Group

Christine Wedell, Volare Wealth Advisors

Jim Wood, Premier Financial Partners

Other (please specify)

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* 17. Best Accountants (Featured in Oct. 2025)

Caty Beilsmith, Wipli

Holly Breur, Prosper CPAs

Lisa Burris, Burris & Associates, P.C.

James Cash, HONKAMP

Amy Dunard, Hoffman, Bricker & Adams, P.C.

Tom Dunn, Dunn CPA Firm

Tyson Eagen, The Triton Group, CPAs

Elizabeth Farmer, Farmer & Associates CPA

Michael Fitzgerald, Scheffel Boyle

Kevin Foster, Kiefer Bonfanti & Co. LLP

Scott Gabel, SFW Partners

Richard Gratza, Kerber, Eck & Braeckel

Savannah Greatting, Anders

Laurie Griffith, Lopata, Flegel & Company

David Guess, Maher & Co.

Ken Hirsch, Hirsch Accounting & Tax Services

Mark Hoffman, Hoffman Clark, LLC

Jim Mertz, Leslie D. Schmidt, CPA

Susan O’Malley, CliftonLarsonAllen

Hailey Phillips, Fearless Accounting

Gavin Poppen, Goldman, Kottler, Unell

James Pulaski, Hutson CPAs LLC

Kurt Rickhoff, Richhoff & Associates, Ltd.

Nicole Thousand, Thousand CPA

August Werner III, Bruwitz, Sosktek & Werner LLC

Mark Wilson, Martz & Wilson

Fred Zrenner, Fred Zrenner CPA

Other (please specify)

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* 18. Best Payroll Service Provider (Featured in April 2026)

ADP

B&B Accounting & Tax Services, LLC

Diel & Forguson Financial Group

Dunn CPA Firm

Elder & Isaac, CPA P.C.

Emerson & Co.

HireLevel

Inova Payroll

John Hoff CPA, PC

LEM Business Solutions

Maher & Co.

Mila Samsonov, CPA

PayCom St. Louis

Payroll Central

Pooley Accounting Services

Premier Business Services

Simploy, Inc. Tax Solutions, Inc.

Tesseon

West CPA Group, P.C.

Other (please specify)

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* 19. Best Credit Union (Featured in April 2026)

1st America Credit Union

Alliance Credit Union

Alltru Credit Union

Arsenal Credit Union

Century Credit Union

CommunityAmerica Credit Union

First Community Credit Union

Scott Credit Union

St. Louis Community Credit Union

Together Credit Union

Vantage Credit Union

West Community Credit Union

Other (please specify)

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* 20. Best Architectural Firms (Featured in September 2025)

Arcturis

Blaes Architects

Bond Architects

Cannon Design

Christner Architects

CORE10 Architecture

Domash Design Group

Fox Architects

JEMA

Lawrence Group

LNB Studios

Mackey Mitchell Architects

PGAV Destinations

Rangwala Architects

V Three Studios

Other (please specify)

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* 21. Best Engineering Firms (Featured in September 2025)

ABNA Engineering

CDG Engineers, Inc.

Clayton Engineering Company

Cochran Engineering

EFK Moen

Farnsworth Group

HMG Engineers

Horner & Shifrin, Inc.

Kaskaskia Engineering Group

KdG, a division of Shive-Hattery, Inc.

Marino Engineering Associates, A UES Company

McClure Engineering

Penta Engineering Group

Terracon Consultants, Inc.

Volz Incorporated

Other (please specify)