The Cleveland-based company will idle two of the four production lines at its Northshore operations in Minnesota while also reducing iron ore production elsewhere; the company said the changes are meant to “align with expected sales volumes.”
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The state's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.8 percent last month; the professional and business services sector shed the most jobs, while other sectors, like construction, added jobs.
Stream Global Services will fill about 50 jobs immediately and another 100 within the next few months; all 150 employees will serve a single unnamed client in the entertainment industry.
Copenhagen, Denmark-based Secunia, whose software portfolio helps corporate and private customers manage and control vulnerabilities across their IT networks, plans to open its Minneapolis office at the beginning of 2013.
Following the sale of its business that produces shelf-stable cheese sauces and puddings, Associated Milk Producers will shutter its plant in the small west central Minnesota city of Dawson, laying off 130 workers.
The layoffs are the latest in a series of job cuts this year, and they will occur at stores in New England states.
A spokeswoman for Activision Publishing, Inc., said that the local division is expected to release fewer games based on third-party licenses as compared to 2012 and that the realignment will better reflect “our slate and the market opportunities.”
During its “Nerd Drive,” the company will award prizes to people who refer job candidates and help it reach a goal of hiring 100 new employees in as many days.
Taylor-Wharton International, which has more than $200 million in annual revenue, is moving its corporate headquarters to Minnetonka and will relocate up to 30 jobs, with plans to hire new employees in the Twin Cities.
Studio/E helps professionals think afresh in a time when the old approaches to success don’t work as well as they used to.
The company has consistently increased its employee base during the last several years and has now expanded its St. Paul office by more than 30 percent to accommodate the growth.
Minnesota ranked high among the nation’s states in terms of both average debt load carried by recent college graduates and percentage of recent grads with debt.
The monthly job gains were driven largely by the education and health services sector, and the state has now recovered nearly 90,000 jobs since hitting a recessionary trough in 2009.
Individuals who can benefit from the grants include former workers of General Mills, Delta Air Lines, Medtronic, and Best Buy.
Chart Industries, which is New Prague’s largest employer, plans to add a 111,525-square-foot manufacturing facility to accommodate 80 new employees in the Minnesota city.
The growing company, which now employs 410 in Minneapolis, also launched a new website.
With the help of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a new Minneapolis school aiming to breed entrepreneurs will open in August 2013.
More than 60,000 technology training videos created by Little Falls-based Atomic Learning will be available to Best Buy employees and some Geek Squad customers.