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Vermeer Corporation team members pose with their Coolest Thing Made in Iowa trophy during the Iowa Association of Business & Industry (ABI) annual conference in Davenport. Front row, from left, are: Vermeer team members: Kent Thompson, R&D senior engineering manager; Stan Fynaardt, assembler III; Terry Patterson, assembler II; and Mindi Vanden Bosch, vice president of operations. Back row, from left, are: MidWestOne CEO Chip Reese and ABI President Mike Ralston. CREDIT IOWA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

Nominations open for 2025 Coolest Thing Made in Iowa competition

The 2025 Coolest Thing Made in Iowa competition is kicking off this week with nominations open now through April 18. The annual event – a joint initiative between the Iowa Association of Business and MidWestOne – highlights and celebrates Iowa’s…

J-TEC forges on at 50

J-TEC Engineer Tom Hamilton (left) displays one of the company’s crosswind sensors while talking to…

Coralville breaks ground on Iowa Arena vision

Johnson County and Coralville leaders line up to turn the first shovel full of dirt…

CBJ’s Best of the Corridor voting now open

Voting is now open in the Corridor Business Journal’s annual Best of the Corridor competition!…

Corridor manufacturers capitalize on subassembly shift

A wiring harness for a piece of agricultural equipment is laid out by Adreanna Clark,…

Diversification pays as Timberline expands

A rendering of the new 80,000-square-foot Timberline Manufacturing facility to be built in Marion over…

World Class Industries plans a new front door

World Class Industries CEO Brent Cobb, shown in his Hiawatha office. PHOTO GABE HAVEL  …

Boom & little gloom at Iowa City economic forecast

By Katharine Carlon [email protected] Wheels are turning, and not just on the highways, according to…

Real Success with Nate Kaeding: David Tominsky

Nate Kaeding and ISA Managing Director David Tominsky at Caucho in Cedar Rapids. PHOTO ADAM…

LIST: Tracing the reach of the Corridor brand

Three local businesses with the word “Corridor” in their names and on their signs. PHOTOS…

Should your business be on Snapchat?

If your business wants to reach Gen Z, you need to be on Snapchat –…

Who is Generation Z?

The Corridor’s next generation of leaders take after the boomers and learned from the millennials.…

How much? IDT sale a deal to be remembered

Integrated DNA Technologies’ Coralville offices. CREDIT BILL ADAMS   By Dave DeWitte [email protected] The purchase…

Japan offers a boost to corn, ethanol producers

Trade partner opens doors to fuel oxygenate made from corn-based ethanol, such as the product…

EntreFEST Preview: Getting from idea to product with Adobe’s CPO

Adobe Systems’ Scott Belsky talks with the CBJ in an exclusive preview of EntreFEST, the…

University of Iowa hits the building brake

A planned $50 million UI Art Museum is one of the highest-profile projects impacted by…