Union President Michelle Sommers said “a lot of [members] feel that the way things have gone everywhere else in the country, it wasn’t a bad deal overall.”
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David Denham, who previously served as chief growth officer at Colle+McVoy, has joined cross-town agency Space150 as chief strategy officer.
The retailer said that it received positive feedback about its holiday online price-matching policy and is extending the program throughout the whole year.
Bell State Bank & Trust’s parent company is acquiring Minnetonka-based The Business Bank and its mortgage division; together, the two companies originated nearly $3 billion in mortgages last year.
Barry Judge, who joined Best Buy in 1999 and left in May 2012, is among at least half a dozen key leaders who left the electronics retailer last year.
Minnesota health care companies attracted $164.7 million in 2012, down 26.2 percent from 2011; still, the state received the second-highest funding amount among the region’s 11 states.
Minneapolis was the only U.S. city on the list and was described by the magazine as an “unexpected foodie mecca.”
Marvin and Canadian rival Loewen Windows will face off Saturday in an international border battle for bragging rights on the hockey rink.
Shares of U.S. Bancorp and TCF Financial Corporation—the state’s largest bank-holding companies—climbed about 18 percent last year.
This year’s local attendees will include 3M Company, which will showcase an 84-inch touchscreen table prototype, Canopy Company, which offers a touch-enabled iPhone case, and Finder Codes, which developed a QR code-based lost-and-found system.
U.S. Bancorp said that its portion of the $8.5 billion settlement includes $80 million in cash and about $128 million in mortgage assistance services; Wells Fargo, meanwhile, will pay $766 million in cash.
Jason “Bo” Beckman was given the harshest sentence of three co-defendants, receiving 30 years in prison; Patrick Kiley’s sentencing, meanwhile, was moved to a later date.
The company opened a new Roseville office last month, and the move will not affect it or the 275 people who work there.
The downtown St. Paul store is one of five Macy’s stores set to close this spring; meanwhile, Macy’s will consolidate its two Ridgedale Center store into a single expanded location.
Bloomington-based Acuo Technologies, whose technology is used to manage digital medical images, will become part of Lexmark’s Perceptive Software business unit.
For the full year, there were 4,275 residential construction permits issued for a total of 9,035 units—nearly double the number of total units permitted in 2011.
Annual sales for Skippy, the second-largest U.S. peanut butter brand, are expected to total about $370 million in 2013, with $100 million coming from outside of the United States.
Still, the retailer expects fourth-quarter earnings per share to “meet or somewhat exceed” the low end of its previously announced guidance.