Retail and Business

Iowa is among the states with the lowest rates of increase in the number of women-owned businesses between 1997 and 2011, according to the American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses report released last week.…

The growth of the U.S. economy declined more than forecast in the first quarter as government spending declined, Bloomberg reported.

Gross domestic product rose at a 1.8 percent annual rate from January through March after …

The Iowa Department of Human Rights’ Office of Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs will hold a legal clinic on Saturday to assist refugees with their permanent resident applications, the department announced.

The clinic will be …

Des Moines was one of only 23 job markets out of the 100 largest metropolitan areas to lose jobs between March 2010 and the same month this year, according to The Business Journals website, bizjournals.com. …

The scoreboard showed that the Iowa Energy lost last night in Game 2 of the NBA Developmental League finals, 141-122, to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.

For Managing Owner Jerry Crawford, though, seeing more than …

More than 1,000 volunteers are expected to help clean up downtown today in today’s Earth Day Trash Bash, held by The Des Moines Park and Recreation Department, Metro Waste Authority, Operation Downtown and The Polk …

Dice Holdings Inc. doubled its net income to $6.6 million for the first quarter compared with the first quarter of 2010, the company said today.

Revenues increased 49 percent year-over-year to $40.1 million, and operating …

The Capital Crossroads long-term planning project is nearing completion.
 
The plan, part of an effort led by the Greater Des Moines Partnership and the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines, is scheduled to be …

Meredith Corp. reported fiscal 2011 third-quarter earnings of 67 cents per share on revenues of $341 million, a decrease from earnings per share of 73 cents on revenues of $353 million a year earlier. “The …