Jena Mertz is a partner and director of operations at Giant Voices, a Duluth-based strategic marketing agency providing branding, web development, and lead generation services to local and national business
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Are metro-area employees going back to the office or not? At this point, the answer appears to be: Sort of. A trio of recently released Twin Cities-area commercial real estate
Yes, we know: The holiday shopping season is being pushed earlier and earlier every year. So why are we bringing up the year-end holidays right after Halloween? Hear us out.
In addition to his work as a teacher and school principal in Madison in western Minnesota, Kipp Stender has raised cattle for the past 22 years. In October, he purchased
Minnesota business leaders from technology to health care were among the nine Minnesotans to win Heartland Awards in the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year competition. The winners were recognized during
The pandemic’s arrival forced a huge portion of commerce online, which led companies in nearly every industry to beef up digital marketing of their products and services. While digital marketing
“Twenty-four months ago, a lot of bankers thought the world was ending,” says Ken LaChance, Minneapolis-based senior vice president and market executive for Wells Fargo Commercial Banking. Many of his
In December, Eden Prairie-based Itiliti Health announced a $2 million round of seed funding. It was one of 175 venture capital deals in Minnesota in 2021, and certainly not one
Earlier this month, a group of big-name Minnesota companies, including Cargill and General Mills, announced the development of a new $24 million plastic recycling plant in Rogers. The companies all
In 2014, Sarah Agaton Howes got a call that changed, well, almost everything. For several years, Howes had been crafting custom beadwork, quilts, and moccasins out of her home on
Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, one of the country’s largest law firms, suddenly found itself under attack in October 2020. Hackers had breached the firm’s IT system, then held it for ransom.
When you think of construction projects within the city limits of Minneapolis and St. Paul, you probably picture condos and rental apartments. In a word, residential. But the project going
In the information technology world, Log4j could become the equivalent of a particularly virulent Covid variant—and for businesses, a potentially bigger danger. Log4j is an open-source, Java-based utility that logs
When Covid-19 hit the United States in alarming fashion in March 2020, many people had the sinking feeling that the nation was heading toward a recession, perhaps a very deep
Commercial banking clients who were cautious during the peak of the pandemic are borrowing again to finance expansions. They’re spending on new equipment and new facilities, and many are acquiring
When the pandemic hit in 2020, production work in the taconite mines in northeastern Minnesota slowed way down. Yet mining companies still needed to provide health and safety training to
A couple of years ago, Chanhassen resident Katie Usem would have been astonished if you had told her that she’d one day launch a sauna business way up on the
Minnesota was once a major center of computer technology, with companies like IBM, Control Data, and Cray leading the global development of supercomputers. Thanks to a new company launched on