Plans call for the proposed Ardent Mills company to be headquartered in Denver, although there are also plans for satellite offices in Minneapolis and Omaha.
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Mayor Chris Coleman released a video in which he tells the public that he is open to suggestions for upcoming budget decisions.
Minneapolis has the ninth-most patent applications for every 10,000 metro residents in the world.
Communications firm WCG is opening a Minneapolis office in the hopes of expanding its Midwest client base.
Planners are considering eight options for either moving existing freight traffic to St. Louis Park or keeping it in the Minneapolis Kenilworth corridor, in order to make room for a new light-rail line.
Cargill’s animal nutrition business is expanding in Thailand by acquiring a facility that produces 60,000 metric tons of shrimp feed per year.
A Minneapolis city committee approved the concept behind a massive development project; meanwhile, Wells Fargo publicly confirmed its interest in occupying planned office towers.
Prime Therapeutics, which added 443 jobs locally in the past year, recently announced its next location for significant job growth: Irving, Texas. The Eagan-based company plans to add 200 new positions there.
The Minneapolis-based company has struck deals to sell two of its businesses to law firms that are clients of the businesses.
Having already established itself as one of the top turnaround stocks of the year, Best Buy’s shares rose again on Monday after an analyst at Credit Suisse raised the company’s target price.
Ryan Companies won the bid to develop parking structures near the planned Minnesota Vikings stadium; the company had cited the parking project as a key component of its larger redevelopment plan.
Urologix paid Medtronic $2 million of the $7.5 million it owes for the licensing of a Medtronic, delaying payment for the remainder of the sum.
Kaskaid Hospitality, Crave’s parent company, is buying the former Trocaderos nightclub and also plans to lease the Old Chicago space in Uptown Minneapolis.
Mark Stenglein told the Star Tribune that the job wasn’t a “good fit” for him.
The Minority Business Development Agency said its services helped create or save a record-breaking 16,730 jobs in 2012 for minority-owned businesses across the country.
According to the Metropolitan Council, $2.5 million in cleanup grants will help add 1,700 jobs and 168 affordable homes.
Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding same-sex marriage were greeted as major victories for both Minnesota's LGBT residents and its business community.
Compared with last year, seven percent more legal, public relations and engineering firms and accounting consultants are confident in a stable or improved revenue.