Retail and Business

As the chair of the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Look Local First Program, I encourage you to determine ways that your business can shift more of your out-of-area spending to local products and services. Now …

Companies are moving downtown because workers like to be able to walk to attractions and to vibrant neighborhoods, Smart Growth America contends in anew report.

The organization interviewed 40 corporate executives selected from nearly …

The Iowa Business Council has two new members: Reynolds W. Cramer, chief executive officer of Fareway Stores and Cory J. Reed, senior vice president of the Intelligent Solutions Group for Deere & Co. Cramer joined …

The U.S. Small Business Administration will offer two free online webinars on sales and use tax for Iowa businesses. The webinars will be held on two separate dates: June 17 and July 22. Both are …

Iowa Association of Business and Industry members elected new officers and directors during the annual conference June 10-12 in Bettendorf. Officers elected were Paul Gregoire, global vice president for human resources for Fisher, a subsidiary …

Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $33.49 per hour worked in March 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $22.88 per hour worked and accounted for 68.3 percent of these costs, …

The U.S. economy grew in April with employers adding 223,000 nonfarm jobs, according to the latest Bureau of Labor report released today. Forbes.com reported that the job gains were just under what experts had predicted, but considerably better than …

A new analysis of wages by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the highest-paid workers gained an average of 33 percent over the past 35 years, while the lowest-paid workers showed basically no gain.

Overall, “real,” …