Archive for April 2015
Give Back Iowa Challenge begins April 14
Ready to ramp up your company’s volunteer efforts? Iowa employers are invited to pre-register to participate in the Give Back Iowa Challenge to encourage their employees to volunteer and report their volunteer hours. Employers with the highest …
Read MoreMiller joins attorneys general in seeking herbal supplements inquiry
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and a bipartisan group of state attorneys general today sent a letter to congressional leaders seeking an investigation of the herbal supplements industry, and asked Congress to consider strengthening the …
Read MoreIowa index decreases in February
The Iowa Leading Indicators Index decreased to 109.1 in February from 109.2 in January, the Iowa Department of Revenue reported.
The six-month annualized change in the index held at -0.7 percent from January. Although …
Read MoreVoya assesses retirement readiness
Voya Financial Inc. has released an index it believes shows that Americans are generally behind in their financial preparations for retirement. The report incorporated two surveys conducted with Greenwald & Associates Inc. in which workers and recent …
Read MoreDwolla’s Milne to speak April 15
Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla, will speak at the Business Innovation Zone’ Startup Stories event at 11:30 a.m. April 15 in Conference Room 101 of Ruan II. General admission is free; tickets including lunch cost $15. Launched …
Read MoreWorkiva joins Russell index
Ames-based Workiva Inc., the publicly traded creator of a cloud-based productivity platform, has been added to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes. The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the largest 3,000 U.S. …
Read MoreDraper named to Iowa Innovation Corp. board
Chris Draper, director of EMERGE@Simpson, has been elected to the board of the Iowa Innovation Corp., where he will represent private colleges. The nonprofit corporation fosters research and development, supports the commercialization of ideas and …
Read MoreReservations due soon for Warren County development group’s business awards event
Reservations are due by Friday for Warren County Economic Development Corp.’s Excellence in Business awards event. The free event is 5 to 7 p.m. April 9 at Simpson College’s Great Hall. Registration can be made …
Read MoreDes Moines attorney voted into Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers
Jason Miller, a civil defense attorney with Des Moines-based Patterson Law Firm LLP, has been voted into the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, in which membership in by invitation only and limited to 250 lawyers, …
Read MoreFalling oil prices led to job cuts last month
Employers planned to trim payrolls by 36,594 in March, with most of the cuts in the energy sector, outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. said.
The March total was 27.6 percent lower than …
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