Business News

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Summit executive, University of Iowa engineering professor and pipeline safety expert discuss carbon sequestration at an Iowa Ideas panel

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed that are intended to reduce illnesses from food contamination but could require meat companies to make extensive changes to their operations.

Managing online inventory is “almost a whole separate business” for the Haunted Bookshop owners.

The state program, using federal funds, will provide loans and other capital.

More than 30,300 clean energy jobs were recorded in Iowa by the end of 2021 — a 5 percent increase from the year before.

Iowa pork producers could be in trouble if the U.S. Supreme Court agrees that a California law regulating how pork sold in that state is produced, trade groups say.

A spokesperson for the Cedar Rapids-based credit union said most of the layoffs came from the company’s mortgage division and that they were prompted by “changing industry market trends.”