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Joyce McDaniel to chair local Go Red For Women campaign

Go Red For Women, the American Heart Association’s national movement to end heart disease and stroke in women, has named Joyce McDaniel to chair the campaign in Central Iowa. McDaniel is vice president of human …
By BPC Staff | Jan 4, 2016
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Bankers Trust names former CDS Global chief as leader of newly created IT position

Debra Janssen, most recently president and CEO of CDS Global Inc., has been named chief operations officer at Bankers Trust Co. She will start work Jan. 11, according to a release.


Janssen will join the…
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Jan 4, 2016
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These big deals were nixed last year

Last year was a record-setter for deal making with mergers and acquisitions exceeding $4 trillion, but a few fell apart under pressure from federal antitrust officials, Seeking Alpha reported.


These turned out to be not such…
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Jan 4, 2016
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Iowa DNR issues clarification on air permit changes

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has developed a fact sheet detailing when air quality permits need to be changed. Industry representatives had raised questions.The publication describes 22 common scenarios at plants that need the …
By BPC Staff | Jan 4, 2016
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Urbandale offering Venture School scholarship

The city of Urbandale and its Chamber of Commerce will provide a scholarship for an Urbandale entrepreneur to attend to the University of Iowa’s Venture School at the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center in Des Moines.…
By BPC Staff | Jan 4, 2016
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Event Jan. 14: Central Iowa Career Expo

One of Iowa’s largest career fairs returns on Jan. 14 at Hy-Vee Hall. The 2016 Iowa Career Expo, hosted by the Central Iowa chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management, will be held from 10 a.m. …
By BPC Staff | Jan 4, 2016
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Historic detail on downtown hotel is due to city staffer’s persistence

A replica of a historic cornice that is being added as part of the renovation of the downtown Randolph Hotel is the result of the persistence of the late Andrea Hauer, an economic development coordinator …
By BPC Staff | Jan 4, 2016
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China selloff roils global markets

Financial markets are starting 2016 on a bleak note in the aftermath of a selloff in China’s stock markets that halted trading in Shanghai on Monday, Bloomberg reported.


Stocks tumbled worldwide, with global equities heading for…
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Jan 4, 2016
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Guest Opinion: Live an ‘attitude of gratitude’

BY BRIANNE FITZGERALD Marketing and communications director, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa


I recently attended a couple of conferences where I was fortunate enough to share ideas and learn from nonprofit leaders from…
By BPC Staff | Jan 4, 2016
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Lift IOWA seeking guest opinion writers for 2016

  Do you have advice or tips to offer aspiring female leaders? Do you simply have an opinion applicable to women’s leadership? If so, Lift IOWA would like you to consider writing guest opinion pieces…
By MEGAN VERHELST | Jan 4, 2016