Plymouth-based The Tile Shop intends to start trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market after it merges with JWC Acquisition Corporation.
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The Twin Cities ranked high for education but received low marks for job growth and cost of doing business; overall, however, the metro area moved up considerably in this year’s ranking.
The retailer’s new “Hexapillar” gift card features a robotic caterpillar that becomes a butterfly that can actually fly.
The health insurer will provide a $100 annual credit to individuals who meet four health goals.
Some of the hospital system’s inpatient nursing units will grow and some will shrink as part of a “rebalancing” act that aims to ensure that each shift is at the optimal staffing level—but the reorganization is predicted to result in a net gain of 40 to 50 positions.
The high court determined that the law requiring Americans to obtain health insurance is constitutional, and local health insurance providers seem to have a mostly favorable view of the decision.
Thirty-seven percent of Minnesota’s hospitals received an “A” rating in a national study on hospital safety.
St. Jude Medical claims that a defective device reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month did not have the same flaw as an older line of devices that was recalled last year.
When the Edina complex opened in 1956, it served as the first enclosed shopping mall in America—and hundreds of other shopping malls across the United States were subsequently modeled after it.
Eighty-two percent of the locked-out union workers voted on a third and “final” contract proposal from American Crystal Sugar, and 63 percent of the voters rejected it.
After assuming control of local advertising sales, production, and distribution for the satirical newspaper, the publisher of the Pioneer Press has discontinued production of The Onion in the Twin Cities.
The recently damaged mill’s future remains uncertain as owner Verso Paper Corporation is still assessing the costs and the processes that would be required if it were to repair the mill.
About a week after Farley’s & Sathers completed its merger with Ferrara Pan Candy Company, the combined business announced plans to shutter facilities in Minnesota and Tennessee, resulting in an unspecified number of layoffs.
Best Buy’s bylaws now require that an investor own at least 25 percent of the company’s stock in order to call a special meeting related to a “change of control”; founder Richard Schulze and entities that he controls own 21.2 percent.
The City of Minneapolis spent $467,139 on staff and contract lobbyists last year, the most of any local government in the state.
The Human Life Value Calculator iPad app gives users a range of their economic value based on current income and debt, as well as expected lifetime earning capacity—and Securian says it might make users “think twice about their life insurance coverage.”