Retail and Business

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa announced today that it received a grant of $20,000 from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation.

The grant will be used to support the organization’s School-Based Mentoring Program. The program …

Food prices will rise 3 to 4 percent this year, due in part to surging costs for pork and beef, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said today.

The increase would be the most since …

Average retail gasoline prices in Des Moines have fallen 3.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.76 per gallon on Sunday; the national average has increased 2.8 cents per gallon in the last …

Franci Phelan, formerly the chief human resources officer with the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation in Seattle, has joined Kum & Go LC as senior vice president of human resources. The West Des Moines-based convenience …

Great Ape Trust scientist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been named to teh 2011 Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Savage-Rumbaugh is the first and only scientist to …

The Iowa Wine and Beer Promotion Board has launched an Iowa Wine and Beer app for Apple Inc. products.

The app is designed to be an enhanced version of the board’s print directory. The app …

The deadline for small businesses to submit applications to the John Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition is April 30.

A link to the submission page is available at the competition website, www.IowaBusinessPlanCompetition.com, which also includes …

Cedar Rapids-based Rockwell Collins Inc. announced a sales increase of $81 million, or 7 percent, to $1.223 billion in its second fiscal quarter, which ended March 31, compared with the same period a year ago. …