Christa Meland

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Top Corporate Sponsors For MN Chambers

Top Corporate Sponsors For MN Chambers

Minnesota is home to more than 150 chambers of commerce, ranging from 50 to 2,000 members, which lobby primarily at the state level. You might be surprised which local companies
Brewing By The Numbers

Brewing By The Numbers

Minnesota has become a hot spot for brewing. In April, three of the state’s breweries—August Schell, Summit, and Cold Spring—made a Brewers Association list of the Top 50 Overall U.S.
Number Crunch: Office Party Deluxe

Number Crunch: Office Party Deluxe

We all have go-to places to celebrate special occasions—and so do companies. We asked Minnesota architecture and engineering firms to tell us which venue they most often use for company
Number Crunch: Tax Time Overtime

Number Crunch: Tax Time Overtime

Say the words “tax time” and you might picture an accountant buried under an enormous heap of documents, pencil in hand, furiously crunching numbers on a calculator. Just how busy
RoadTab Automates Car Repairs

RoadTab Automates Car Repairs

When Jacob Phillips ran a used car dealership, he routinely purchased fixer-uppers. Problem was, the estimates he received from auto-repair shops often varied by hundreds of dollars—and he spent hours
Number Crunch: Venomous Freight

Number Crunch: Venomous Freight

In an industry dominated by global players, how far are smaller courier companies willing to go in order to set themselves apart and attract customers? We asked local couriers if
Free Money As Marketing

Free Money As Marketing

Spire Federal Credit Union’s annual meetings used to be run of the mill. Not anymore. For the past two years, Spire has given $25 in cash to each person who