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Ronald Keller will join Iowa Network Services Inc., a privately owned telecommunication provider in West Des Moines, as the company’s president and CEO. Keller, who most recently served as a senior vice president with Aviva …

Muscatine-based HNI Corp. will host its quarterly conference call for investors to discuss second-quarter results at 10 a.m. on July 21.

To participate in the call, dial (877) 512-9166, or go to www.hnicorp.com for a …

Companies in the United States added more workers than forecast in June, signaling that job growth might pick up in the second half of the year, Bloomberg reported.

A private report from ADP Employer Services …

Des Moines is tied for the fifth-lowest average unemployment rate since 2000, according to numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor compiled by bizjournals.com that measured the 100 largest metro areas.

From January 2000 to …

Orders placed with U.S. factories increased in May, indicating that manufacturing may rebound from a slowdown in economic growth in the first half of 2011, Bloomberg reported.

Bookings for manufacturers’ goods rose 0.8 percent, less …

Funding approved by the Iowa Power Fund Board will help Clipper Windpower Inc. construct and install a prototype wind turbine in Iowa that is designed to be used at low wind speed sites. Clipper, which …

Iowans approve of wind energy and the companies that help harness it, according to a survey of 400 would-be voters and 308 likely Republican Iowa caucus-goers. Neil Newhouse of Public Opinion Strategies, which is also …

The West Des Moines Leadership Academy announced its graduating class of 2010-2011, the third class to graduate from the West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce’s leadership development program. The class is pictured here.

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