Iconoculture founders Mary Meehan and Vickie Abrahamson have left their Minneapolis market research firm to start another, Panoramix Global. Their focus is projecting consumer trends in the G-20: 19 industrialized
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Stu Utgaard was the Twin Cities’ biggest dealmaker in the ’80s and ’90s, a master of M&A. Then he made his own acquisition, Sportsman’s Warehouse, and built a single store into a $718 million retail chain. So how did Utgaard wind up buried under $31 million in personal debt?
What would lure Mark Jacobs (Irwin Jacobs’ son) from Manhattan to Winona to run an old-fashioned door-to-door business? The chance to apply entrepreneurial liniment to a tired, aching brand.
Brennan and Lacek's Loyal Subjects
Since meeting in the early 1980s and building Northwest Airlines’ WorldPerks frequent-flyer program, Mark Lacek and Peter Brennan have started five businesses, with a sixth on the way—nearly all devoted to helping businesses keep their customers coming back.
Mark Lacek and Peter Brennan have built their expertise in the travel business, but telecommunications companies, banks, oil companies, and retailers also have used loyalty programs to build their customer
What’s happening with local meeting planning and spending in 2010?
Minnesota is prime wind country. The high, flat prairie in the southwestern quadrant of the state is some of nation’s best land to take advantage of winds cutting across North
“The year of the burger” last year in the Twin Cities—openings of Burger Jones, Galaxy Drive-In, American Burger Bar, and Smashburger, to cite just a few—continued into 2010 with this
With a new, proprietary product line, Burnsville’s Valley Natural Foods co-op is looking to a bigger market.
Surly makes a new extreme beer. What’s driving the bitter-beer trend?
Segetis produces bio-based plastics and chemicals. But it’s emphasizing value more than values.
Customers in 11 countries can create their own Chamilia bracelets.
The Cleantech network plans to do for green business what the Twin Cities already do for med tech.
Northfield-based Rawland Cycles boasts practical, versatile bicycle frames—and a catalog of Norwegian monikers.
With soy-based BiOH, Cargill makes its next move into a greening polymers industry.
Anchor Block has succeeded by changing with the times.
How PureChoice evolved from a seller of air filters to selling air quality—digitally.