Manufacturers’ News

Quaker facility along the Cedar River in downtown Cedar Rapids showing Interstate 380 through the center of the frame Saturday, May 30, 2011, in northeast Cedar Rapids. (SourceMedia Group News/Jim Slosiarek)
Thursday, 5 April 2012

Iowa factory employment up 1 percent in 2011

Cedar Rapids retains No. 1 ranking

After several years of decline during the recession, Iowa manufacturing employment rose 1 percent last year, according to an Illinois-based publisher of industry data. Iowa gained 1,929 industrial jobs between January 2011 and January 2012, compared with a loss of  1.4 percent or 3,972 factory jobs eliminated in 2010, according to the Iowa Manufacturers Register, an [...]

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Tuesday, 18 March 2008

New annual data: Cedar Rapids #1 in Iowa for industrial employment 1

Cedar Rapids remains Iowa’s manufacturing leader, gaining slightly in 2007, during a time that Iowa lost 2,900 manufacturing jobs. The data is from Iowa Manufacturers Register, a reference directory published annually by Manufacturers’ News, Inc. (MNI) Evanston, IL: According to MNI’s city data, Cedar Rapids is home to the most industrial employment in Iowa, accounting for 20,129 [...]

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