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Leadership Iowa announces 2025-26 participants, community hosts
Forty leaders from across Iowa have been selected to participate in the 2025-26 Leadership Iowa program, the Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) Foundation recently announced. The program, Iowa’s premier issues-awareness initiative, has engaged more than 1,500 Iowans since its inception in…
Top 16 finalists announced in 2025 ‘Coolest Thing Made in Iowa’ contest
The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) has announced the Top 16 finalists in…
Coolest Thing Made in Iowa nominees announced
The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) has announced the nominees for its 2025…
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…
ABI president Nicole Crain appointed to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100
Association of Business and Industry president Nicole Crain has been appointed to the U.S. Chamber…
New ABI President Nicole Crain: Speaking up for business ‘ingrained in who I am’
Newly-minted ABI President Nicole Crain traces her passion for business advocacy to her teen years working at…
Ag industries bolster Iowa’s farm economy
Golden streams of grain pouring from combines and augers into wagons, trucks, bins and elevators…
Nicole Crain named new Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) president
Nicole Crain has been selected as the next president of the Iowa Association of Business…
ABI President Mike Ralston to receive Manufacturing Champion Award
Mike Ralston, president of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI), will be recognized…
Developing Iowa’s talent pipeline
With a 12-month average jobs opening rate of 5.37%, Iowa ranks 44th on WalletHub’s compilation…
Ralston retiring as Iowa ABI president after two decades
After nearly two decades of leading the charge at the Iowa Association of Business and…
Reece chairs Iowa Association of Business and Industry board
Chad Reece, vice president, government and industry relations of Winnebago Industries in Forest City, is…
ABI members applaud Reynolds’ Iowa pro-business reforms
Taking Iowa’s state income tax rate from sixth highest to sixth lowest in the nation…
Vermeer’s self-propelled baler is Coolest Thing Made in Iowa
The coolest of the cool products manufactured in the Hawkeye State is an innovative piece…
‘Coolest Thing’ contest spotlights Iowa’s diverse, creative manufacturing sector
Even Chip Reeves, who heads Iowa’s largest publicly-traded bank and oversees deals every day that…
Reynolds, NASCAR executive among 2024 Iowa ABI Conference headliners
The annual 2024 Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) Taking Care of Business Conference…
