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Some businesses absorb expenses and others cut benefits

For the past four years, Field Paper Co. Vice President and General Manager Jerry Biga has helped the commercial paper distributor scramble to accommodate 30 percent annual …

With a new development director, The Playhouse comes to you

Michael-jon Pease says he wanted to get in on the ground floor of Des Moines’ revitalization. Pease arrived in St. Paul, Minn., after that city’s …

Three commercial brokers for CB Richard Ellis/Hubbell Commercial, Carole Tillotson, Dan Connolly and Jim Hodge, have traded court documents for abstracts and are using their legal experience to better facilitate transactions.

“Although attorneys have occasionally …

FOCUS: REAL ESTATE

As mortgage rates fall, apartment owners lose

Greater Des Moines area renters are fleeing apartments at the fastest pace in at least 12 years, a survey of vacancy rates among Greater Des …

Focus: Real Estate

Local residential real estate brokers are cautiously optimistic about home sales for 2003 following record-setting numbers in 2002. Spurred by several factors, including decades-low interest rates and a shift in capital by …

On Jan. 6, Dave Duncan began a new career when he officially started work as president of the Iowa Telecommunications Association.

Among his greatest challenges is representing the diverse interests of the association’s members, who …

As interest rates fall, Iowa’s FirstHome mortgage program has followed suit, dropping its interest rate for the fourth time in nine months to 5.5 percent. We talked to Chuck Simmons of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage …

Dear Mr. Berko:     I buy a lot of Sara Lee products and I think I would like to buy 75 shares of the stock. Do you think this is a good company and do you …

Last week, I introduced the concept of “The Little Salesman That Could,” stemming from the book “The Little Engine That Could.” To get Part 1, just go to www.gitomer.com and enter the words LITTLE ENGINE …

Being named a shareholder at a prestigious law firm means a lot to an up-and-coming attorney. Just ask Jason Madden of Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave.

“It came as a pleasant surprise,” he said. “It’s …