Archive for April 2003

TAKING STOCK

Dear Mr. Berko: I’ve been getting a half-dozen travel advertisements every week on my e-mail from Travelocity.com, offering all sorts of travel bargains. These people do an enormous amount of advertising, and business …

Project will spur economic development

Paul Schlaack grew up in Michigan loving sports like football, basketball and golf. But he never guessed he would one day develop a motorsports complex in Iowa.

“I always said, …

Dear Mr. Berko:

I don’t know why this well-written research piece was sent to me, but the stock (ZooLink) that it recommends looks like it could really take off. I’ve sent the original to you, …

I just watched one of the best presenters in America: Joe Calloway.    His expertise is in personal branding. His upcoming book, “Becoming a Category of One” (John Wiley, August 2003), will delineate how you …

Some Des Moines’ retailers are quietly going upscale.

Davenport-based department store chain Von Maur completed a multimillion-dollar renovation at its Valley West Mall location, bringing in luxury goods, including Kate Spade handbags and Cole Haan …

Commercial real estate market survey results forecast economic growth

Though commercial real estate brokers in major metropolitan cities around the country are experiencing “doom and gloom,” Gary Beban, senior executive managing director of CB Commercial/Richard …

Ten years after his last acquisition, Tom Goldman has done it again.     On March 13, Goldman’s IPM Group Inc., the paint manufacturer whose products have coated everything from Titan rockets to billboards in New York …

Premier Credit Union, which for 70 years has been housed within Principal Financial Group Inc., is moving out on its own.

The company has agreed to pay $1.375 million for the downtown branch of Financial …

Project allows Heart of America Restaurant and Inns to offer lodging at all price points near busy airport exit  

Davenport-based Heart of America Restaurant and Inns plans to build another new hotel at the Fleur …

The song folded around my soul like an old friend, genuine and true: “But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven any more. They’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war. Now Jesus don’t …