Archive for September 2006

Call it mail services, or mail operations. But please don’t call it the mailroom.

That’s one of the underlying messages of the Mail Systems Management Association, whose Iowa chapter has grown to 110 members after …

The seed John Latham sells is not his grandfather’s corn – or even the first commercial hybrid that favorite Iowa son Henry A. Wallace developed in 1923 as he began what would become agriculture’s greatest …

During one of her frequent drives between Des Moines and Chicago, Joline Rivera was racking her brain for the best way to get the public excited about her company’s new development, Tallyn’s Reach.

Then it …

On a 500-acre plot in Johnston, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. conducts hundreds of experiments with corn and soybean plants each year. A $3 million expansion will increase the greenhouse space next to the test field …

A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that drinking green tea may help people live longer lives. The results of this study came as no surprise to Shannon Chen, …

Marj Huber, owner of Outstamping Designs and Heirlooms by Design, finds it hard to look at the scrapbooking business as anything but personal.

The Valley Junction-based business attracts customers who are seeking advice on how …

When Hung Nguyen started Net-Integrated Consulting Inc. in 1993, his son was only 2 days old.

“Everyone thought I was out of my mind,” he said. “I gave up a steady paycheck. I gave up …

A panel of Central Iowa media veterans delivered two messages to a gathering of business leaders last week: Be responsive and honest when dealing with the press, and be aware that the press has changed.…

Over the past 12 months more than 800 Iowa National Guard soldiers have departed from Camp Dodge for overseas missions. When a major construction project is completed two years from now, those soldiers and the …

Iowa native Duane Rumbaugh started college with the intention of becoming a biologist. But a high-profile crime opened his eyes to the world of clinical psychology. Once he “got over that,” which he said happens …