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Feb. 14: CFA Society Iowa luncheon

Host: CFA Society Iowa
About: Doug Ommen, Iowa insurance commissioner, and Nick Gerhart, chief administrative officer for FBL Financial Group and former Iowa insurance commissioner, present “Everything You Wanted to Ask the Commissioner But Couldn’t.” 
When: 11:30 …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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Nominations open for biotech award

The Iowa Biotechnology Association and the Cultivation Corridor are accepting nominations through Feb. 9 for the Iowa Biotech Leadership Award. The award recognizes leadership, innovation and advocacy. The winner will be picked by a committee from representing …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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Rockwell Collins gets earnings bump from B/E Aerospace

Cedar Rapids-based Rockwell Collins Inc. reported sales for the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 of $2.01 billion, a 69 percent increase from the same period in fiscal year 2017. Revenue growth was 9 percent …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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Tax bill took one-time, $13 million bite out of Great Western profits

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Great Western Bancorp Inc. reported that a one-time adjustment to deferred tax assets, required by federal tax reform, dropped net income in the first quarter of its 2018 fiscal year to $29.2 …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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NOTEBOOK: NAMI mental health crisis cards now carried by Des Moines police

Des Moines police officers this week began carrying wallet-sized cards produced by the Greater Des Moines chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI Greater Des Moines, that outline what to do and …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Jan 26, 2018
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Feb 15: Iowa Healthiest State Annual Awards Ceremony

Host: Iowa Healthiest State
About: Join as we recognize communities, workplaces, schools and Iowans for leading the efforts to improve the physical, social and emotional well-being of Iowans. You will walk away inspired to take …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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Nearly 200 to be laid off at Fort Madison wind blade factory

Burlington Hawk Eye: The Siemens wind blade manufacturing plant in Fort Madison is laying off almost 200 employees. A Siemens Gamesa spokesperson said “a difficult decision has been made to adjust the Fort Madison workforce by …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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Des Moines dry cleaner will close after 68 years on Ingersoll

Colonial Cleaners plans to close next week after 68 years near the corner of 19th Street and Ingersoll Avenue, the Des Moines Register reported. Colonial lost its lease after the property and a neighboring lot were sold …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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D.M. airport traffic up 3.8 percent in 2017

Passenger traffic at Des Moines International Airport increased 3.8 percent year-over-year in 2017, the Des Moines Airport Authority announced Thursday. Last year the airport handled 2,568,308 passengers, with each month but September seeing passenger increases …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018
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Clive small-business owner named to NSBA Leadership Council

Josef Reed, a systems engineering consultant in Clive, was recently named to the National Small Business Association Leadership Council. The small-business advocacy organization promotes the interests of small business to federal policymakers on a nonpartisan basis, the …
By BPC Staff | Jan 26, 2018