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Business Record 3-17-23
Cover Story: Investing in the Latino community’s growth
Focus: Green Sustainability
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Read MoreInvesting in the Latino community’s growth
Latino population growth in the Des Moines metro area is projected to more than double by 2050 to about 117,200 residents to make up about 13% of the population, according to the Nuestro Iowa report …
Read MoreOn the Move: Week of March 17
James Pritchard
F&G
Hired as life reinsurance accountant
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Audrey Lowery-Neat
F&G
Hired as senior business systems analyst
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Mallaury Odom-Neely
F&G
Hired as manager, quality assurance
Mallaury.Odom-Neely@fglife.com
Spencer Smith
F&G
Hired as financial analyst…
Value-added energy
Alliant Energy and the Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are partnering on a project that will research the potential for adding value to sites where solar arrays are built by planting …
Read MoreIowa’s first black-owned bank is making change
For the last two years, ReShonda Young has been in the process of opening the first Black-owned bank in Iowa. Young had opened her own businesses before — she founded and franchised the successful gourmet …
Read MoreBusiness Record 3-10-23
The Elbert Files: ‘1776’ still a revelation
The 1969 Tony Award-winning musical “1776” was one of the first performances I saw in the then-new C.Y. Stephens Auditorium in 1971. Fifty-two years later, I still remember how curious it was that a musical …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Carl Gordulic
Acquisitions have been a common occurrence during Carl Gordulic’s career.
Based in Youngstown, Ohio, he started as chief financial officer for Cedar Rapids-based Involta in January following the acquisition of Involta by Carlyle Group in …
Read MoreBusiness Record 3-3-23
The value of a small white building on Woodland Avenue
For more than a century, a small, white wood-framed building in the 2500 block of Woodland Avenue was the pulse of the Woodland Heights neighborhood, first as a grocery store and then as a barbershop …
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