Join us at the Business Record’s annual CRE Trends & Issues Forum where experts from the real estate and development sector will discuss projects that are underway or planned in the Greater Des Moines ...

Each year, the Business Record honors 40 young leaders with our Forty Under 40 awards. We ask these honorees several questions, including what they’d like to improve upon as leaders. Some in the 2026 ...

Drake University has named Jessica Vanden Berg the new executive director of the Ron and Jane Olson Institute for Public Democracy, a role aimed at expanding the institute’s efforts in civic ...

Homesteaders Life Co.’s policy owners have voted to restructure into a mutual holding company. The vote took place during Homesteaders’ annual policy owner meeting and follows the board of directors’ ...

Bubba, a downtown Des Moines restaurant known for Southern-inspired comfort food, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of events and promotions running from late June through July. The ...

A class of 40 new leaders have graduated from Leadership Iowa, a program of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation. Over the nine-month program, participants traveled across Iowa to ...

Vernon Research Group announced it will acquire the assets of Des Moines-based research and consulting firm Horizon Group. Iowa-based Vernon Research Group is a full-service market research firm ...

Ruan Transportation Management Systems announced it has renamed its Value-Added Warehousing service line to Contract Distribution and Fulfillment, a move the company says better reflects its expanded ...

Winnebago Industries Inc. today announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Grand Design RV LLC, a manufacturer of towable recreation vehicles based in Middlebury, Ind., ...

A building permit was issued in January for the construction of nearly 1.4 million square feet of manufacturing space for Robinson Inc., a Wisconsin-based custom metal manufacturer that is expanding ...

Shell Rock Soy Processing and grain-processing company Bartlett intend to combine their soybean crushing businesses, the companies announced this week. According to a news release, the move will bring ...

The Des Moines City Council voted Monday to approve the final terms of an Urban Renewal Development Agreement that will allow the proposed conversion of an old agricultural threshing warehouse in the ...