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Golden Openings merges with Minnesota company

Golden Openings, a Johnston-based business providing products and services for grand openings, ground breakings and other ceremonial events, has merged with Minnesota-based Front Row Sales. Founder Kimberly Baeth, who started Golden Openings in 1997, is …

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Anthologic hosting 25th anniversary event Dec. 5

Anthologic, a marketing and technology collective, will host an event Dec. 5 to celebrate its 25th anniversary at its headquarters, located at 600 E. Court Ave. in Des Moines. The event will start at 4 …

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Brown’s Shoe Fit relocating headquarters to Dallas Center

Brown’s Shoe Fit Co. recently purchased property in Dallas Center that includes an office-warehouse building that has sat empty for about five years. The company is relocating its headquarters to Dallas Center from Shenandoah. Photo by…
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Casey’s finalizes Fikes Wholesale acquisition

Casey’s General Stores Inc., whose headquarters is in Ankeny, has finalized its acquisition of Fikes Wholesale, owner of CEFCO Convenience Stores, Casey’s announced in a news release. The acquisition, the largest in Casey’s history, was …

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Hummingbirds raises $5.4 million in new venture capital funding

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Palmer Group releases annual salary survey

Ninety-seven percent of business leaders who participated in Palmer Group’s annual salary survey plan on increasing employees’ wages in 2025, an increase from 95% in 2024. Also, 78% of those surveyed indicated plans to give…
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Zoning board denies request to turn Spaghetti Works space into a bar

The former Spaghetti Works building on Court Avenue will not become a bar, leaving uncertainty around the future of the building.

The Des Moines Zoning Board of Adjustment today denied a request by Larry Smithson …

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Des Moines launching new loan program for small businesses

A new revolving loan program has been launched by the city of Des Moines as a way to help grow small businesses that lack access to traditional banking relationships.

In early October, the Des Moines …

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Report: Iowa companies continue to shed jobs

Iowa companies shed 4,800 jobs in September, the third straight month of losses, data released today from Iowa Workforce Development shows.

Since June, Iowa firms have shed 6,600 jobs, according to the state agency. Iowa’s …

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HoQ owners to open Flora at Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Chef Suman and Dr. Cynthia Hoque, owners of Des Moines restaurant HoQ, plan to open Flora in the former Trellis Café space at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden. Trellis, which has operated at the …