Ad agency Olson on Monday announced that it has significantly bolstered its PR discipline with the acquisition of Chicago-based Dig Communications. Minneapolis-based Olson says that the acquisition-its second within the

3M Company on Monday announced plans to acquire Winterthur, a Swiss supplier of precision grinding technology, for about $448 million. Under the agreement, 3M will pay $63.56 for each share

A Hastings couple has been fined $100,000 by the Minnesota Department of Commerce for participating in a cash-back mortgage scheme. According to the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Kristina Marie Birt

The operators of J.L. Kosbab Company-a Zimmerman-based tax preparation, accounting, and payroll administration business-have been charged with six felony tax crimes each, the Minnesota Department of Revenue announced Friday. Jerome

Minnesota manufacturers exported $4.4 billion worth of goods out of the country during the third quarter of 2010-representing a 17 percent year-over-year increase, according to data released Monday by the

The Opus Group announced Monday that it has purchased three parcels of land near the University of Minnesota's East Bank campus to develop a $30 million apartment and retail complex

Giving a gift card this holiday season? Chances are good that it came from Rogers-based Archway Marketing Services, the largest distributor of gift cards in North America. Archway said Wednesday

A California-based real estate investment trust has purchased 135 SuperAmerica stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin-the same stores that were bought by two private investment firms bought from Marathon just two

The Twin Cities' post-recession economy is on the road to recovery, according to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The U.S. Department of Labor has accused Nash Finch Company of discriminating against more than 80 women applicants at one of the company's wholesale distribution centers. The department's Office of

The University of Minnesota said Thursday that it has licensed a sensor technology designed to reduce toxic emissions in mines to a Twin Cities startup. The sensor technology, developed by

More than a year after a former CEO of Digital Angel Corporation sued the company over an alleged breach of his employment contract, Digital Angel announced Wednesday that the jury

A new batch of Denny Hecker's personal items will be sent to the auction block, according to a Wednesday court order. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel signed the order, which

Two major Minnesota companies, Bloomington-based United Properties and Minneapolis-based Target Corporation, have both recently secured space on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. The deals are unrelated, but the locations are

A report released Thursday by the Minnesota Council on Foundations (MCF) found that charitable giving in Minnesota in 2008 decreased from 2007, reversing a long trend of year-over-year increases or flat

Minneapolis-based Target Corporation announced Thursday that its net retail sales for November totaled $6.01 billion-up 5.7 percent from $5.7 billion during the same period last year. During the four weeks