In the 2013 Book of Lists, we began a new tradition. While the book has traditionally focused on businesses, we wanted to add some new lists that highlighted the vast array of business people in our ...

Temple Real Estate has entered into a development agreement with the city of Urbandale to build a 9,886-square-foot mixed-use building on Plum Drive. The Urbandale City Council approved the ...

Top Trumps, a company that produces Monopoly boards specific to cities and states, was at the Ruan Center on Tuesday to unveil the latest Des Moines version. The company visited Des Moines earlier in ...

Blank Park Zoo recently broke ground on the Ruan Foundation Wild Iowa exhibit, part of the zoo’s $18 million “Expand the Impact” capital campaign. The exhibit will create immersive habitats showcasing ...

When Shannon Lerda’s e-commerce business took over her family’s home in Omaha, she began looking for warehouse space where she could store supplies and package goods bought by customers. Lerda wanted ...

An untapped 70 million workers in the U.S. have the ability to work at higher-level jobs but are shut out of the workforce because of the lack of a college degree, according to the keynote speaker at ...

Chris Whalen, owner of Hyper Energy Bar and president of development at Heart of America Group, has been arrested on domestic abuse and child endangerment charges following an incident at his West Des ...

A little over a year ago, a group of 11 employees across different disciplines at local marketing agency Meyocks began meeting regularly to tackle topics like leveraging artificial intelligence for ...

Molecules are the building blocks of life and are the foundation of a multigenerational Iowa manufacturing business. Des Moines-based Kemin Industries is a $1.4 billion ingredient supplier run by the ...

The Altoona City Council has taken another step toward bringing a Wisconsin company to the metro and expanding the growing industrial area on the city’s north side. The city council on Monday approved ...

A petition to bring a Buc-ee’s travel center to Norwalk has attracted more than 3,500 signatures and will soon be sent to the Texas-based company in what Norwalk Mayor Tom Phillips said is an example ...

Construction on the Whispering Willow North Battery Energy Storage System, or BESS, project in Franklin County has started. According to Alliant Energy, installation of the electrical conduits and ...