Retail and Business

The Iowa Business Council (IBC) released five calls to action to improve Iowa’s economy on Monday at the group’s Annual Partnership Meeting.

The group’s long-term plan, “A Competitiveness Blueprint: Iowa 2025,” covered the categories of …

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and Planned Parenthood of East Central Iowa announced Monday that their merger is complete, and the affiliates are now working under the Heartland name.

The merger will provide expanded services …

Francisco Sanchez, undersecretary for international trade at the U.S. Commerce Department, will meet with Congressman Leonard Boswell and local exporters and members of the Iowa District Export Council at a business roundtable at 3 p.m. …

The U.S. economy grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2010, recapturing its pre-recession peak, Reuters reported.

And though it would have grown at a 7.1 percent pace had businesses …

On Jan. 31, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates will appear during a live webcast to talk about worldwide efforts to eradicate polio. “ABC World News” anchor Diane Sawyer will moderate the event, which will be …

Innovation will be the theme of New View’s Feb. 3 luncheon. The West Des Moines-based young professionals group has lined up Anthony Paustian, provost of Des Moines Area Community College’s West campus, Ben Milne, founder …

A new international trade office, funded by the federal Small Business Jobs Act, will open this spring at the West Des Moines Business Incubator.
    “This will be the equivalent of a regional center, except …

The announcement that J.C. Penney Co. Inc. will close its store at Southridge Mall could be seen as a blow to that struggling facility, bad news for local retail and one more worrisome event in …