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Leadership Iowa names 2018-19 class

Forty leaders from across Iowa have been selected as members of the 2018-19 class of Leadership Iowa, the premier issues-awareness program of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation. The eight-month program is designed …

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Events center Hilton in Des Moines outshines peers

The Hilton hotel at the Iowa Events Center has outpaced average scores at other U.S. Hilton hotels in survey results from customers, hotel officials told the Iowa Events Center Hotel Corp. today. The score for …

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Waldinger plans $21M D.M. facility

Waldinger Corp. plans a 149,000-square-foot office and production building on a 28-acre site in the 4701 block of Southwest 63rd Street, which it will lease from its affiliate Bell Avenue Properties. The Des Moines City …

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Poll: Most Iowans blame employers who hire undocumented immigrants, not the workers

Des Moines Register: Iowans place more blame on employers who hire undocumented immigrants than on the workers, according to a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll. The poll shows 63 percent of Iowans blame employers who …

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IDx secures $33 million in venture capital for eye diagnostic system

Coralville-based IDx, which has developed an autonomous diagnostic system for detecting diabetic retinopathy, announced it has secured a $33 million venture capital infusion to accelerate market adoption and further develop diagnostic systems for its artificial …

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Uber to pay $148 million to states for delay in reporting data breach

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and attorneys general from the other 49 states and the District of Columbia have reached an agreement with ride-sharing company Uber Technologies Inc. to address the company’s one-year delay in …

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Schafer Systems in Adair to combine with Pollard Banknote

Owner Revolution Inc. also announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell substantially all of the operating assets and business of its wholly owned lottery products supplier subsidiary in Adair, Schafer Systems Inc., to …

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Urbina named BankIowa CEO

BankIowa has named Alison Urbina as CEO, effective Oct. 1, the Corridor Business Journal reported. Urbina has been president of the company since October 2017. She now will be president and CEO, leading 11 banks. She …

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Global Insurance Accelerator seeks new managing director

Four years after its launch, the Global Insurance Accelerator is kicking off a search for the program’s second managing director after Brian Hemesath announced plans to step down in 2019.

Hemesath has committed to stay with the…
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NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it…

In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week on BusinessRecord.com.

Self defense
Two high-profile murder cases in Iowa resulted in an increase in requests for workplace classes on …