Studio M Architects has helped design some funky, iconic restaurants, bars and retail spaces in the Twin Cities and across the country. It’s a small team of five, though Principal Adam Meyer has a team of contractors and another company he can call to partner with...
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Digging deep
Storm Creek develops high quality, eco-friendly apparel for people to wear outdoors. It’s a socially conscious company that donates significantly — to the tune of more than $1 million in 2022 — to organizations ranging from the American Cancer Society to Secondhand...
Tightening pursestrings
When Dipesh Patel acquired Postmatic two years ago, he was looking to rapidly expand the manufacturer of equipment for mailing, packaging and semiconductor industries that also does contract work for original equipment manufacturers.
In the last three months, Postmatic has acquired another company and purchased real estate aimed at eliminating the cost of rent and facilitating the company’s ability to take on larger builds.
Finding it in franchising
Todd Peterson has owned or run a number of businesses throughout his career. He was the CEO of Chippewa Springs Water for five years and owned Underwater Adventures at the Mall of America, to name a couple. During the height of the COVID pandemic, he was considering...
Start at the end
Scouts Talent tries a variety of strategies to get its messaging out and to become known as thought leaders in its field, including publishing five-minute interviews and five-second infographics that are informational and free to readers. The company started doing those a few years ago and they’ve built a significant following.
Create an experience
It’s hard to hire right now. Employees have leverage. Unemployment is low and the available workforce is shrinking. So, what can companies do to attract new talent? And what does it take to keep them once they start?
Coming soon
With companies like Nike making big VR splashes through conducting virtual shoe try-ons via the Facebook’s Metaverse and equipment price points coming down, it’s only a matter of time, says Berenjian. He left a corporate banking career to help start the REM5 Virtual Reality Laboratory in St. Louis Park, where anyone can go experience a virtual reality headset while having drinks and dinner.
Overseas expansion
The human body doesn’t recognize items coated in carbon as foreign bodies. So, medical treatments that use such products often respond better to treatments because patients have fewer allergic reactions. The technology has been around since the 1970s, but St....
Low-cost looks
Before Roseline Friedrich opened Roseline’s Candles in Northeast Minneapolis this fall, she was selling her candles via her website. “That way, when I went online to say ‘hey, come buy from me,’ I wasn’t taking orders via direct messages or phone calls, I was just...
Chaos drives progress
Some COVID-driven technology enhancements now in place for good COVID-19 created a plethora of problems for Hopkins-based Citrus Systems, a 37-year-old juice processor that packs private label retail juices for dairies, food service, hospitality and other sectors. ...