From the retail clothing chain that produced T-shirts proclaiming “Sex, drugs and Rockwell Collins” and the image of a cat on its hind legs holding a ray gun with the line “Pew pew pew” now comes “Davenport: More than just a great sofa.”
In the most recent shift in corporate positions, Hy-Vee Tuesday announced Jeremy Gosch as CEO and president of the West Des Moines-based chain’s retail operations, as well as vice chairman of its board of directors.
Aaron Wiese was named Hy-Vee’s next CEO, effective Oct. 1, the West Des Moines-based retail chain announced late Wednesday.
Hobby Town owners Niels and Musetta Christiansen plan to close their hobby shop at 3655 First Ave. SE in Cedar Rapids, with all merchandise, equipment and fixtures for sale and regular prices discounted up to 50 percent.
Out-of-state solar panel installers are publishing advertisements riddled with misleading information regarding Iowa’s solar tax credit and charging thousands of dollars to customers who are seeing no change in their electrical bills.
Things are good for business in Iowa, Iowa Business Council Executive Director Joe Murphy said. But we better be prepared for some potential hurdles on the horizon.
Eastern Iowa Food Service plans to open its ninth Dunkin’ in the Corridor “sometime next year,” said Clifford Reif, CEO and president of Burlington-based Reif Oil, which owns the franchise holder for the restaurants in the area.
The breakfast and lunch spot will close June 30, after 7 years in business.
Not Anything Specific operates a retail business in NewBo City Market and in a space in Kingston Village
Coralville-based West Music will acquire 119-year-old Griggs Music in Davenport, effective July 1
Sweetie’s Ice Cream Parlor serves up a sweet tooth nostalgia thattranscends generational differences.
West Des Moines-based retailer Hy-Vee said it will ask “up to 500 additional employees” to move from corporate-level jobs to retail positions at its stores.
The decision to to pull Cedar Rapids-based Phelan’s Interiors out of the retail sector was nearly a decade in the making, said Paul Phelan Jr., the company’s CEO and president. And it did not come lightly.
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