Starting Jan. 1, Minnesota officially adopted a ban on “junk fees,” additional fees that include anything other than mandatory gratuity or a credit card processing fee. That means bidding farewell to ...

At an August meeting, Shari Ballard and her fellow Ecolab board members received a management briefing on external challenges to the business. The breakout included tariffs, political instability, ...

Blank Metal—it’s not a rock band; it’s a new AI-native software engineering company, but this startup’s founders and investors read like a troupe of superstars…in Minnesota tech. Blank Metal CEO Matt ...

On St. Patrick’s Day 2020, Bahram Akradi, founder, chairman, and CEO of Life Time, sat in his corner office surveying the company’s Chanhassen campus. The parking lots were empty, the adjacent fitness ...

“There aren’t a lot of family businesses left in our space,” says Carissa Skorczewski, president of Groebner, a Rogers-based distributor of pipe, metering technology, and other equipment to the ...

If you’ve ever come into Duluth on Interstate 35 from the south, you’ve probably noticed the prominent industrial building where the freeway bends to the left toward downtown. And if you’ve been ...

Thirteen Minnesota business leaders are named finalists in EY's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards program. Get to know each of them here.

A boring summer job at a U.S. embassy upended Kim Nelson’s career plan. Otherwise she might have become a major diplomat in President Obama’s administration. But as a young Black woman, she bypassed ...

A new mixed-use development in St. Paul aims to capitalize on the capital city’s miles of riverfront along the Mississippi. The project, led by Edina-based Buhl Investors, is designed to bring ...

Those who knew Eric Shogren well considered him a visionary in the business world. The Minneapolis native opened restaurant chains across the United States and Russia during his three-decade career.

We’ve all driven past a Lorenz bus as we drive around the cities, but most of us haven’t been lucky enough to ride in a Lorenz charter carrying the Gopher football team or maybe the Minnesota Wild.

More than four decades before you could get a king-size mattress delivered to your door in a compact box, Ken Larson disrupted the business of sleep. It was the late 1960s, and the options to buy a ...