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UnityPoint’s Leaver receives national award

Bill Leaver, president and CEO of UnityPoint Health, has received a 2015 Healthcare Leadership Award from Becker’s Hospital Review. Leaver was nominated because of his notable contributions to health care on local and national levels. …
By BPC Staff | May 6, 2015
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Voya Financial reports higher operating earnings

Voya Financial Inc. reported first-quarter after-tax operating earnings of $197 million today, compared with $150 million in the first quarter of 2014. Net income available to common shareholders was $186 million, or 77 cents per …
By BPC Staff | May 6, 2015
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DMACC Foundation extends entrepreneurship contest deadline

The Des Moines Area Community College Foundation has extended the deadline for the first round of the DMACC Foundation Entrepreneurship Competition to May 29. The competition is open to DMACC students and alumni who live in Iowa …
By BPC Staff | May 6, 2015
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Banks named ‘Best of Iowa’

Twelve Iowa banks received Best of Iowa awards from the Iowa Bankers Association. The awards recognize excellence in community relations and bank marketing, including efforts to promote branding, deposits, loans, customer service and staff programs, …
By BPC Staff | May 6, 2015
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DART commission OKs bus rapid transit application

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority commission on Tuesday approved an application for a $20 million federal grant that would help pay for the planned train-like bus rapid transit service between downtown and the …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | May 6, 2015
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Workiva reports net loss, higher revenue

Workiva Inc. on Tuesday announced a first-quarter net loss of $7.4 million, compared with a net loss of $4.6 million in the previous year’s first quarter. The Ames-based software company reported a 25 percent growth …
By BPC Staff | May 6, 2015
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REG posts $38 million first-quarter loss

Ames-based Renewable Energy Group Inc. reported a net loss of $38 million in the first quarter, despite a 27 percent increase in biodiesel gallons sold. The biodiesel and renewable chemicals company initiated a $30 million share buyback …
By BPC Staff | May 6, 2015
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Kevin Kruse receives Distinguished Executive of the Year Award

The Iowa Society of Association Executives announced that Kevin Kruse, senior vice president and legal counsel at Diversified Management Services, was recently honored as the 2015 ISAE Distinguished Association Executive of the Year. The award …
By BPC Staff | May 6, 2015
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Eagle View Lofts receives federal funding needed for project to go forward

 

Hansen Real Estate Services has been notified by the Iowa Economic Development Authority that it will receive $3 million in federal disaster recovery funds for its 120-unit Eagle View Lofts apartment project, Hansen Real …
By KENT DARR | May 5, 2015
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National metro expert offers Des Moines advice

Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution got his first look around Des Moines in the hours leading up to a Tuesday morning breakfast meeting at the Windsor Heights Community Center.

 


Katz: D.M., other cities…
By PERRY BEEMAN | May 5, 2015
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