Archive for April 2012
Shovel-ready in Iowa
An Ankeny business park development plan that’s been in the works for the past seven years will begin to take shape this year in the southeastern corner of the city.
The project, known as Crosswinds …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Kevin Dear
Kevin Dear recently took over as the enterprise sales team manager for Iowa and Nebraska at Microsoft Corp. He leads a 10-member sales team that works with Microsoft’s largest business clients in the two states. …
Read MoreFeeding the entrepreneurial fire at Terrus
Terrus Real Estate Group LLC plans a full-scale push into the real estate brokerage market, with changes that give a new title to a trusted hand and provide the company’s original broker more freedom to …
Read MoreBusiness Record: April 13, 2012
Industry report: Energy & Utilities
Iowa Utilities Board building achieves double-digit energy savings
A combination of energy-efficient design elements and cost-saving components have made a new state office building one of Iowa’s greenest structures. The Iowa Utilities Board/Office of Consumer …
Weekly economic indicators improve slightly
The number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits for the first time fell slightly last week, Reuters reported. Initial claims dropped by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 386,000, according to figures released by the U.S. Department …
Read MoreHNI posts net loss; better numbers than a year ago
Muscatine-based HNI Corp. announced yesterday a net loss for the first quarter of $100,000.
That was an improvement from a net loss of $1.8 million, or 4 cents per share, in the same quarter of …
Read MoreDOT to host meetings for passenger rail study
The Iowa Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation, will host in-person and online open house meetings in early May to discuss the Chicago to Omaha …
Read MoreFeed Energy to provide scholarships
Feed Energy Co. today announced that it will offer two $2,500 “Excellence in Ag” scholarships to students studying agriculture at land-grant universities in the upper Midwest.
Eligible students must be a sophomore or older with …
Read MoreApplications open for Farm Bureau award
Applications are now open for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmer Achievement Award.
The award, sponsored by Deer & Co., recognizes successful young farmers who excel in managing their farms and demonstrate leadership in …
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