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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
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.
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.
News bits from around Minnesota.
Minnesota credit unions claim that they're withstanding the recession and the real estate bust nicely, thank you. Now they want to lend to capital-hungry small businesses. Banks beg to differ.
Marvin Windows and Doors won't change its "premium" identity in response to a punishing market.
News bits from around Minnesota.
Minnesota's largest developer and owner of multifamily housing is able to finance apartment projects that other developers can't by negotiating the red tape of tax credits.
Regional auto glass installation and collision repair firm ABRA has suffered a little in the recession—but not enough to shatter its expansion plans.
The Fargo-based firm restructures itself for greater efficiency- and has doubled in size, extending its geographic and professional reach.
Long before Tom Petters and Bernard Madoff, a Minneapolis entrepreneur hatched a monumental scheme that built a landmark- and landed him in prison.
The U's new technology could cut the cost of product development in half.
Bruce Hendry's latest adventure in distressed assets.
How Holy Land is expanding and rejuvenating commercial corridors in Minneapolis.