When Ecolab began looking at telecommuting as a way to boost the productivity and satisfaction of employees on its information technology (IT) service desk, one of the first resources it
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Fallon’s ads say yes, but go beyond the luxury metaphor.
Pro athletes wear protective equipment made by Plymouth-based Shock Doctor and advise the company’s product designers.
The Partners in Preservation program has chosen 25 historic sites in the Twin Cities that will compete for a total of $1 million in preservation grants; residents can now vote on which sites will receive the grants.
The Pioneer Press reported that the company is enjoying a huge growth spurt this year and that it plans to move its headquarters to Eden Prairie in April to accommodate the growth.
Richard S. Willis replaces former CEO Cary Deacon, who left in April when the board made several bold moves and determined that the company needed a new leader to help grow its revenue.
The Minnesota Department of Commerce said the alleged scheme involved real estate companies, real estate closers, appraisers, mortgage brokers, and numerous buyers and defrauded lenders in the sale of at least 45 properties.
The two organizations said the new contract extends the Target Center naming rights partnership through 2014 and will allow them to gain a better understanding of the potential for future renovations to the arena.
The Minnetonka-based insurer and three other U.S. insurers will reportedly supply data to a newly created nonprofit group that will distribute it to researchers for analysis.
Klapmeier, who founded the Duluth-based company in a Wisconsin dairy barn with his brother 25 years ago, replaces Brent Wouters, who is no longer with Cirrus.
The firm's new research Web site is scheduled to launch on September 28 and will allow academics and investment professionals to share their white papers and other research on the hedge fund industry.
Michael Mahoney will assume the role of Boston Scientific president next month, but he can't supervise competing businesses or become CEO until November 2012 because of a non-compete agreement with Johnson & Johnson.
According to the Pioneer Press, some Target.com shoppers got notices indicating that their Missoni orders have been cancelled or their shipments have been delayed and need further approval-despite the fact that they received confirmation of their online orders.
Minnesota's official unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.2 percent in August-in part because a "smoothing out" of data understated the effect of 22,000 laid-off state workers who returned to the job following the state government shutdown. A state official told Twin Cities Business that the "unsmoothed" rate is 7 percent.
Seventeen companies have been selected to give seven-minute presentations to attendees of the annual Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference.
Marketing experts told USA Today that that the shopping frenzy taught Target and its competitors a valuable lesson: Even though the economy is still in rough shape, shoppers are in the market for reasonably priced luxury goods.
Dennis DeSender admitted to fraudulently soliciting investors to fund a venture to sell coal-gasification technology to China-and he reportedly implicated a former officer of Bixby Energy Systems in the alleged $60 million scheme.
The state's Attorney General's office has terminated Dorsey & Whitney as Minnesota's chief bond counsel, citing ethical conflicts during the state government shutdown in July, and replaced it with an Omaha law firm.