By Jim Williams —- About six years ago, I was invited to join SCORE. Because I was recently retired, I thought it might be interesting — a chance to interact with business people, to help other businesses and those who want to start a business, using my experiences, successes and failures. Little did I [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Ament Inc., an engineering, architecture, and surveying company, has announced changes in the company’s leadership. Jim Rose, who works in the company’s Moline office, has been named president of Ament. Rose, who has been with the company for more than 12 years, succeeds John Bender, who retired recently. Allen Varney, who also has [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — With demand growing for its higher education fundraising and enrollment management services, RuffaloCODY on Tuesday announced plans to add more than 60 professional and technical positions to its staff. The company also is studying space options, including a new building to handle its projected growth. Al Ruffalo, chairman and chief executive officer [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS- A Cedar Rapids company plans to shut its doors indefinitely until a federal agency gives them approval to open again. UR Relay provides translation service or relay service for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. But Monday, the company closed its doors after nearly six years in business. Owners say it’s because a new Federal [...]
continue »A $1.3 billion fertilizer plant proposed by a Egypt-based company for Lee County would be the largest private investment in the state’s history, Gov. Terry Branstad says. Iowa Fertilizer Company LLC, a unit of Cairo, Egypt-based Orsacom, wants to produce urea ammonia nitrate, diesel exhaust fluid, and potentially urea at a site in Lee County [...]
continue »The quiet Cedar Rapids company President Obama plans to visit Wednesday has a significant role in the export and renewable energy markets the president seeks to promote. Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing manufactures stainless steel screw-type conveyors that are used in many ethanol plants, food processing plants, and meat packing plants. The company also makes screw [...]
continue »The Internet company known best for its Dogpile metasearch site is digging into its big pile of cash to buy TaxACT, the Cedar Rapids-based online tax software company. InfoSpace Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., announced a definitive agreement Monday to buy TaxACT for the same $287.5 million cash price offered by H & R Block. It took swift advantage of the [...]
continue »Amid a weak U.S. economy that has forced businesses to downsize and put thousands out of work, companies in the Iowa City metropolitan area are continuing to grow and remain valuable, a recent survey shows. Most of the 65 interstate commerce companies polled for the Iowa City Area Development Group’s “existing industry report” also gave [...]
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