Retail and Business

The Hotel Pattee in Perry has partnered with Flat Tire Lounge in Madrid to offer a new food option to users of the High Trestle Trail. The Frontier Shack, a food trailer named after a …

The Iowa Association of Business and Industry is staging a new leadership breakfast series beginning Friday with an appearance by adventurer Charlie Wittmack, who climbed Mount Everest and is a long-distance swimmer and bicyclist. The event will …

Holmes Murphy & Associates Inc. announced Friday that its former president, CEO and chairman, Jim Swift, has left the company after a distinguished 35-year career with the West Des Moines-based insurance broker.

Swift and …

The Macerich Co. said in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it has received a second, higher offer from Simon Property Group Inc. for the 51 regional malls it owns, …

Target Corp. plans to boost pay of all its workers to at least $9 an hour starting next month, following similar moves by rivals Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and TJX Cos. as competition for lower-wage workers …

AT&T Inc. will have to pay $40 million in a patent-infringement case because its lawyers didn’t read a court document, an appeals court ruled today, Bloomberg reported. AT&T missed a deadline to appeal a jury verdict for …

Two Dahl’s Food stores will become Cash Saver Food Outlets, a chain new to Iowa that offers discount groceries, The Des Moines Register reports. Stores at 4121 Fleur Drive and 1320 E. Euclid Ave. will be rebranded …

The Macerich Co. has rejected a hostile offer from Simon Property Group Inc., the largest shopping mall owner in the country, to buy it in a stock and cash deal valued at $91 per share, …

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 percent in January from 4.3 percent in December. The state’s jobless rate was 4.4 percent a year ago. The U.S. unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in January. …