Nicholas Wang, the CEO of Best Buy’s Five Star electronics chain in China, reportedly left the company earlier this week.
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Patterson, Apogee Enterprises, and Hawkins were recognized by Forbes alongside 97 others that have “consistently demonstrated transparent and conservative accounting practices and solid corporate governance and management.”
Target ranked second and Best Buy ranked 13th, although Best Buy’s “brand value” declined a whopping 52 percent year-over-year to $8.1 billion.
A Caribou Coffee location was included in a prototype of J.C. Penney’s next-generation stores, but the coffee chain has reportedly stopped pursuing plans to open outlets inside the retailer’s stores.
Jack Riebel, chef and co-owner of Butcher & the Boar, and Michelle Gayer, chef and owner of the Salty Tart, are among five individuals vying for the 2013 “Best Chef” in the Midwest award.
The company is asking the Supreme Court to review its recent ruling regarding locked-out workers; meanwhile, a proposed amendment seeks to ensure that locked-out North Dakota workers are not eligible for unemployment benefits in the future.
After dropping some controversial tax reform proposals, the governor said that raising taxes on the top 2 percent of the state’s earners would raise more than $1 billion in new revenue.
112 Eatery, Bar La Grassa, George and the Dragon, and Tilia were featured on Urbanspoon’s list of the most popular restaurant bars in the nation.
The restaurant chain, which entered Canada in 2011 and has plans for new locations in the Middle East and Puerto Rico, has now reached agreements with franchisees for a rollout in Mexico.
A new report found that some Minnesota employers are having a difficult time filling job vacancies, but the reasons vary and cannot be pinned solely on a shortage of qualified applicants.
Ecolab, H.B. Fuller, The Mosaic Company, Target, and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans are among 145 companies named to the Ethisphere Institute’s 2013 “World’s Most Ethical Companies” list.
The expansion will increase the brewery’s current 150,000-barrel annual capacity by an additional 100,000 barrels.
The same Minnesotans who were on last year's list made repeat appearances this year, although the net worth of most has risen—and Best Buy founder Richard Schulze is no longer listed as a Minnesotan.
The retailer’s first 24 Canadian stores will have soft openings this month—and Target plans to open 124 stores throughout the country in 2013.
3M Company, Target Corporation, and St. Jude Medical also made the list last year.
CEO Joseph C. Levesque told Twin Cities Business that “we have to be vague” but acknowledged that a sale of one or both of the company’s product groups is possible, and a private takeover or merger is not out of the realm of possibility.
A Star Tribune report, citing unnamed sources, indicated that founder Richard Schulze appears to be backing off a bid to acquire the company but is trying to regain his former position as chairman of the board.
In 1921, a predecessor to General Mills invented the name Betty Crocker in order to personalize responses to customer letters, thousands of which flooded in during a promotional contest for Gold Medal Flour. Today, Betty Crocker is a household name—so well known, in fact, that it made a just-released Adweek list of “Five Famous Female