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The company will break ground next week on a 144,000-square-foot expansion and expects to complete it by late summer 2013.
The Bloomington-based glass products maker beat quarterly earnings and revenue estimates, prompting it to raise its full-year outlook.
Ecolab CEO Doug Baker said that the company is in need of additional leadership support after its $8.3 billion acquisition last year of Nalco Holding Company.
George Wintz, who in April was found guilty of two counts of bank fraud and one count of theft from an employee benefit plan, was sentenced for his role in a “check-kiting” scheme.
However, there is a silver lining: The state has added 24,500 jobs in the past year, representing a growth rate of 0.9 percent—and Minnesota’s unemployment rate still remains well below the national rate, which was 8.1 percent last month.
The previous record was set in fiscal 2011, when the university spawned nine start-ups.
The retail giant has already begun hiring seasonal workers at distribution centers and intends to begin hiring temporary store workers next month.
Some locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers appealed to North Dakota’s Supreme Court after being denied unemployment benefits; meanwhile, a Crystal Sugar executive said that replacement workers are doing a “fabulous job.”
Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed; BridgePoint’s system allows doctors to navigate around a blockage of the coronary artery to restore blood flow to critical areas of the heart.
In Experian’s ranking based on the average of credit scores of residents in 143 U.S. cities, Minneapolis reclaimed the top spot after losing it in 2011 after four straight years of coming in first.
This year’s finalists span 15 categories, and the winners will be revealed at an awards event on November 1 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
The owner of The Wirth Companies and developer of major Minnesota projects like the Grand Lodge Hotel Waterpark in Bloomington was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay $6.46 million in restitution.
The acquisition will provide Minnesota Rubber & Plastics with the funding it needs to continue growth abroad and within the medical market.
The merger, which is expected to be completed September 28, also received clearance from Chinese regulators.
Troy Venjohn, who will now serve as Atomic Playpen’s sole CEO, said co-founder Michael Kretsinger left to pursue “a number of potential opportunities” outside of the agency. Kretsinger, meanwhile, declined to disclose his reason for leaving or future plans.
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