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During the past seven years of Kourtney Carlson’s tenure at Marketlink Inc., her team has grown revenue an average of 20 percent each year. Carlson is vice president of client services for the company, which …

At 8:30 p.m. Feb. 24, The Urbandale mock trial team gathered at their high school to practice for the upcoming Iowa State Bar Association Mock Trial competition March 1, 2 and 4. The students sporadically …

The Business Record recently spoke with Brad Baumler from the Des Moines chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The invitation-only networking group has been available to business people in Greater Des Moines for the past …

Dr. Jose Angel used to perform routine screenings for colon cancer for his patients. Last year, the internal medicine specialist at Mercy Medical Center chose to discontinue the screenings in the face of high malpractice …

On Thursday, CB Richard Ellis/Hubbell Realty Co., one of the state’s largest brokers of commercial buildings and property, is planning to release a report on the state of the industry in Central Iowa that will …

The developer of one of Des Moines’ first mixed-income apartment complexes near downtown says he’s proven the concept will work to spur urban housing in Des Moines. Less than six months after opening, the Woodland …

Riding the same wave of low interest rates that fueled a hot 2002, many Greater Des Moines real estate firms profited from double-digit increases in residential sales last year.

“We had an excellent year,” said …

In the 1988 movie “Big,” audiences fell in love with the palatial toy store FAO Schwartz while watching Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia frolic on an oversized piano keyboard. Last holiday season, the store’s parent …

George Jetson, the lovable patriarch of the cartoon family “The Jetsons,” may be the planet’s most widely recognized owner of a “smart house,” but the rest of us are beginning to understand that such futuristic …

EMC Insurance Group Inc., the publicly traded insurance unit of EMC Insurance Cos., said fourth-quarter profit rose 17.9 percent as it took steps to better manage its risk, experienced fewer losses related to storms and …