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Cedar Rapids-based Van Meter Industrial Inc. has been named by the ESOP Association, the national trade organization for companies with employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), as the 2011 ESOP company of the year. Founded in …
Iowa State University, which was named by Biofuels Digest as the 2010 Institutional Research Facility of the Year, will be featured at the Iowa Speedway’s NASCAR event May 21-22. The car driven by Tanner Whitten …
Several strategies enabled Heartland Express Inc. to keep fuel costs under control in the first quarter of 2011, the North Liberty-based trucking company said in a quarterly report filed May 6 with the Securities and …
Office furniture maker HNI Corp. saw net sales increase 9 percent, or $32.6 million, in the quarter that ended April 2, compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The Muscatine-based company improved its office …
With another Pella Tulip Time festival just past, giving some attention to the notion of “bubbles” seems timely, for it was the Dutch tulip mania of the early 1600s that is generally considered the first …
Baseball umpires all learn the same rules about calling strikes. Then a game starts, and the home plate ump calls them according to whether he feels like crouching all the way down or only bending …
I’m pleased to announce that Chris Conetzkey joins our staff this week as editor of the Business Record. Conetzkey will oversee the Business Record’s news coverage, along with Jim Pollock, who moves into the role …
Nearly four years ago, Trisha Hunter formed a grassroots homeless outreach organization focused on giving toiletries and other nonperishable items to individuals with no permanent address.
With that experience under the banner of Junior Chamber …
The 2011 Business Record Readers Survey included a question about company benefits, and in these post-recession times, employees provided a clear message to employers. As the Beatles sang, long ago: “Give me money. That’s what …
Global Imaging Systems, a Xerox Corp. company, announced yesterday that it has acquired Des Moines-based Midwest Business Solutions Inc. Midwest Business Solutions was founded in 2002 by owner Randy Forburger, who will remain with the …
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