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Two Hotel at Kirkwood Center employees earn statewide honors

Two employees at The Hotel at Kirkwood Center received recognition at the Iowa Restaurant Association’s 2025 Iowa Hospitality Showcase, held recently at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. Catering Sales Manager Ande Long was named to the 40 Women…

University of Iowa launches new mobile app for students

On Aug. 1, the University of Iowa rolled out a new mobile app designed to…

Icons of mobile apps

The 20 acquires Collabrance, marking ninth MSP acquisition of 2024

The 20, a prominent managed service provider (MSP) growth platform, has announced its acquisition of…

Exterior view of the GreatAmercia building in downtown Cedar Rapids.

Hibu enhances Google Business Profile optimization

Hibu Inc. has announced updates to its digital marketing solutions, which will increase online visibility…

Hibu Cedar Rapids

Kinze Manufacturing to lay off 193 employees

Kinze Manufacturing has announced it will lay off 193 employees, effective Aug. 1. The layoff…

Kinze Manufacturing new 5900 series planter

Stamats sells Meetings Today brand to TPMG

Stamats Communications, Inc. has announced the sale of its group meetings and events media brand,…

Meetings Today logo

Honkamp expands Midwestern presence with acquisition of The Brems Group

Honkamp, P.C., a leading Midwest CPA and business advisory group, is set to expand its…

Honkamp

UI leads $6M NSF-funded initiative to combat severe weather in the Midwest

The University of Iowa has secured a $6 million, four-year grant from the National Science…

A sensor peeks over the top of some corn stalks

Timberline announces retirement, succession plans for CEO Pientok

Timberline Manufacturing, a Marion-based electronics contract manufacturer and local employee-owned company, announced retirement plans July…

Tom Pientok Timberline

Former Collins CEO Kelly Ortberg named new Boeing CEO

Boeing announced July 31 that its board of directors has elected Robert K. “Kelly” Ortberg,…

Kelly Ortberg Rockwell Collins Boeing

North Liberty building damaged in overnight explosion

A North Liberty building sustained significant damage after a late-night explosion. At 11 p.m. on…

Damage to two bays is evident at 309 Herky St. in North Liberty. The explosion happened late Monday night.

Kirkwood, UI partner on Medical Laboratory Science degree

Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa (UI) are partnering to offer a four-year…

UI Medical Laboratory Science program

Hintz Biomedical, HMUIRL take top prize for Iowa JPEC Summer Track pitch

A health care startup that recently took top prize at an Iowa JPEC spring competition…

Lily Hintz, of Hintz Biomedical, gives her pitch at the Startup Incubator Summer Track Launch Day in the Black Box Theatre in the Iowa Memorial Union on July 26, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa.

Cedar Rapids family provides $1 million donation to renovate Mercy downtown emergency room

Mercy Medical Center has announced a $1 million donation from a Cedar Rapids couple to…

Mercy Cedar Rapids downtown emergency room renovation

2019 throwback: UICCU likes GreenState Credit Union as new name

This article was originally published March 4, 2019. The CBJ is revisiting some of the…

Crews with CR Signs work to install giant letters spelling “greenstate.org” atop GreenState Credit Union’s North Liberty headquarters on July 29, while the refreshed monument sign stands in front. The new signage marks the culmination of GreenState’s transition away from its former name, University of Iowa Community Credit Union, which was forced by a 2018 state law prohibiting credit unions from using the name of any Iowa public university. PHOTO ADAM MOORE

TIME names Alliant Energy a Best Midsize Company in America

Alliant Energy was recently listed on TIME’s inaugural list of America’s Best Midsize Companies for…

Alliant Energy