Retail and Business

Through Meals from the Heartland, Central Iowa volunteers have packaged millions of nutritious meals for people in some of the poorest countries on Earth. Early next month, the nonprofit organization will hold another mass-packaging event …

Last winter during one of our many life-threatening but character-building blizzards, I was struggling through deep snow and howling winds on my way to the firewood supply.

As everything started to fade to black – …

And now for the rest of the story. Here are more winners in the Business Record’s 15th annual Best of Des Moines readers’ poll. Through online voting and paper ballots, our readers selected these 34 …

Muscatine-based furniture maker HNI Corp. saw its office furniture sales increase 7.8 percent in the second quarter of 2010, compared with the same period a year earlier.

In a report to the Securities and Exchange …

How did you find the job at the Salvation Army?

I just got lucky. I applied to a million places. And I just got lucky. I found my dream job, right away. Which is crazy. …

Customers started knocking on the doors of the Farm & City Supply when the nuts and bolts were on the shelves, but the farm side of the store had yet to be stocked.

“There was …

Each year, we ask the readers of the Business Record to vote for the best individuals, companies and organizations in a broad range of categories. We always get an outstanding response, and 2010 was no …

Now they tell us we’re surrounded by dams that are going to give way and flood our communities the next time it rains hard, or even if somebody forgets to turn off a garden hose …