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Meredith Corp., which publishes Better Homes and Gardens and owns 11 television stations, said its fiscal third-quarter profits jumped 43 percent as new marketing strategies to boost advertising began to pay off.

Net income for …

Words matter. Someone should tell Jim Patch that. He’s lived 65 years, long enough, it would seem, for him to have figured that out, perhaps even long enough to have imparted that message to the …

Throughout Iowa, city and county officials are scouring their recently approved fiscal 2004 spending plans, looking for areas to absorb the cuts that would be required as a result of a $128 million budget-reduction bill …

Here’s a conundrum: Profits and revenues continue to rise at Principal Financial Group Inc. And yet the company has a higher-than-normal percentage of Wall Street analysts who recommend that investors avoid its stock.

Of the …

Dear Mr. Berko:

In December 1995 I bought 50 shares of International Game Technology at $12 a share. Today, it’s at $86.30. What do you think of the stock? My broker thinks I should buy …

Sales truth: Salespeople become known by the questions they ask. Knowing this truth, you’d think all salespeople would ask smart questions. You’d be thinking wrong. It never ceases to amaze me that, with all the …

Tina Mowry, director of the Greater Des Moines Transportation Management Association, said her group’s goal is to achieve a permanent 10 percent reduction in the amount of peak drive-time traffic in the metropolitan area by …

Jerry Kluver used to operate a backhoe and a dragline, tending to the secondary roads of Crawford County. Even the noise, grime and heat generated by the heavy machinery as it tore up, repaired and …

Gregory Jones, principal of Dunbar/Jones PLC, says money invested in infrastructures and green spaces helps fuel a city’s economic engine.

“I don’t think you can put a market quantifier on it, because we only have …

Kerrie Plummer says Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan L.L.P. gave her an offer she couldn’t refuse: the opportunity to open a new office in Des Moines, building the staff from scratch.

A Des Moines native, Plummer …