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After a half decade when it seemed to lose its way, the iconic ad agency has reorganized and landed one of its biggest accounts ever. In its work for Chrysler, look for signs that a once TV-centric Fallon is taking alternate routes.
PaR Nuclear, a long-ago spinoff of General Mills, is fueling a global resurgence in nuclear energy.
Everybody is an environmentalist these days, or so it seems. According to the brochures, the product labels, and the corporate spokespeople, every company in America is a devoted friend of
U.S. Energy Services became one of Minnesota's fastest-growing companies thanks largely to natural gas deregulation. Climate change legislation could fuel its next boom.
Having shepherded the Minnesota Zoo and helped to save the Twins, Kathryn Roberts now leads the former Lutheran Board of Social Ministry into a new age of senior-living management.
A big customer pulls back. Revenues fall. Manufacturing capabilities fall short. Retool the plant? Winland Electronics changed everything.
Any guy in a red suit can generate a little mall traffic. But an extraordinary Santa can build a small dynasty.
There are few clear advantages to living in a place where winter begins on October 10th. But here’s one: Like pub owners on the damp English moors and Celtic bluffs,
At Frattallone's Ace Hardware, the handyman's creative side gets its due.
Back from the brink of bankruptcy, ShopNBC has re-adjusted and refocused. Will consumers and investors buy what it's selling?
Upsher-Smith’s move into developing innovative drugs gained momentum in July 2008 with its equity investment of $6 million in Proximagen Neuroscience, a London-based firm that already had a new Parkinson’s
You might want garlic at its full potency for staving off vampires—or cholesterol, though garlic’s ability to do that could prove equally mythical. The Mayo Clinic says research so far
After a career of formulating time- and money-saving pharmaceuticals at his Minnesota business, Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Ken Evenstad started blending one of the most prestigious pinot noirs in the country.
Johnny Michaels, the lyrical and heady bartender at La Belle Vie, treats the cocktail as an intellectual challenge—but one that requires equal parts creativity and good humor. (Beware: He cringes
Despite some flat moments, First Avenue has been the epicenter of the Twin Cities music scene for nearly four decades.
The Eagan business that was once West Publishing now supplies its parent company with the intellectual firepower to outmaneuver Bloomberg and LexisNexis.
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