MidAmerican Energy Co. became the first addition to Decker Development Park on the east side of Fort Dodge in 2019. It also became the first new facility built under the MidAmerican Energy name. The modern and spacious building became home to the company’s customer office and service ...
The labor marketplace is very tight nationally, in the Hawkeye State and locally. Most people in the United States who want jobs either have them or can find employment quickly. The national unemployment rate in December 2018 was 3.9 percent. That’s down from 4.1 percent in December 2017 and 4.7 percent in December of the year before. Iowa has consistently achieved an even more impressive statistic. In December 2018, it had the lowest unemployment number of any state in the U.S. at 2.4 percent. That was the third consecutive month Iowa had recorded that very low unemployment ...
EAGLE GROVE — The hiring push is underway for Prestage Foods of Iowa’s new state-of-the art pork plant, south of Eagle Grove. “We are actively hiring employees right now,” Jere Null, the company’s chief operating officer, said. “We will be interviewing this week, next week, ...
CJ Bio America is steadily expanding its operations in the Iowa Crossroads of Global Innovation industrial park west of Fort Dodge. In 2013, the company opened its main lysine production plant in Webster County, 1946 Harvest Ave. At a cost of about $323 million, it became CJ Bio’s ...
Nestle Purina PetCare Co., a worldwide pet food company, continues to invest in its Fort Dodge facility, located along Fifth Avenue South — the city’s Corridor of Commerce. The company is constructing a 10,000-square-foot water treatment facility, which will increase the energy ...
For Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg, the completion of U.S. Highway 20 as a four-lane route all across northern Iowa after about 60 years of work could be summarized with a single word. “I think I can sum up today in one word — finally,” Gregg told about 400 people packed into a hotel ballroom ...
