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Target slows store theft, but at a cost to shopping experience

Asset protection experts say more innovation instead of familiar locked-up products is what will help retailers keep shrink like shoplifting at bay without also deterring customers.
September 5, 2024
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Planters nuts recall dims Hormel’s outlook

Planters disruption, low turkey prices and pockets of weak demand are dragging the Minnesota company’s sales.
September 4, 2024
Business

Fraught plastic film recycling plant in Rogers reopening with new ownership

GDB International is taking the helm after MyPlas built the $30 million plant that quickly went under despite backing from companies like General Mills and Schwan’s.
September 4, 2024
Health Care

UnitedHealth data breach dings earnings for Mendota Heights-based Patterson

Patterson’s first-quarter sales and earnings missed expectations as it adjusted to the cybersecurity effects on its dental clinic customers.
August 28, 2024
Patterson Cos. headquarters
Business

Hormel, affiliated meatpackers settle wage-fixing lawsuits for $13.5 million

Hormel subsidiary Jennie-O Turkey Store also settled similar claims.
August 26, 2024
Hormel headquarters in Austin, MN. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday September 11, 2015 Despite woes throughout the food industry, partly due to consumers turning away some from processed foods, Hormel has managed to continue prospering -- even though a good part of its business -- Spam, chili -- is about as processed as you can get. But the company's turkey and pork offerings are riding a hot protein trend. And over the past two years, it's made some of the biggest acquisitions in
Health Care

Medtronic growth restrained as some business plans remain in limbo

Approvals are still needed for the Hugo robotic surgery system and Affera technology.
August 20, 2024
Business

Hormel’s head of retail retiring amid company transformation

Former Applegate president John Ghingo will replace Deanna Brady this fall.
August 20, 2024
Hormel headquarters in Austin, MN. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday September 11, 2015 Despite woes throughout the food industry, partly due to consumers turning away some from processed foods, Hormel has managed to continue prospering -- even though a good part of its business -- Spam, chili -- is about as processed as you can get. But the company's turkey and pork offerings are riding a hot protein trend. And over the past two years, it's made some of the biggest acquisitions in
Retail

Target won’t meet its cage-free egg goal in 2025

Retailers, including Target, blame bird flu and affordability concerns for the delays in reaching their benchmarks for cage-free eggs, while animal welfare groups say they dropped the ball.
August 15, 2024
Business

Ameriprise, Piper Sandler agree to pay SEC millions in recordkeeping settlement

Regulators found the Minneapolis financial services firms violated recordkeeping provisions of federal securities laws.
August 15, 2024
Business

Pay for General Mills CEO drops to $13 million

Chairman and CEO Jeff Harmening earned a smaller bonus and gained less from long-term equity awards as pay declined 25% from a year ago.
August 13, 2024
General Mills CEO Jeff Harmening (Photo provided by General Mills)
Business

CHS partners on $440 million grain terminal in Brazil

The Minnesota-based cooperative has formed a joint venture with Brazilian rail giant Rumo.
August 8, 2024
Business

Medtronic, Abbott strike diabetes devices deal, giving patients more options

Analysts see the partnership as positive for Medtronic, which has had some stumbles in its diabetes division.
August 8, 2024
ALLISON SCHOLL, 16, (left) and ELEANOR HEDLUND, 17, pose for a photo at the Park Nicollet International Diabetes Center while holding their new Medtronic MiniMed 670G insulin pumps. Scholl and Hedlund are among the first type 1 diabetes patients in the nation to receive the device, which is the only insulin pump approved in the U.S. to predict how a patientís blood-glucose levels will change over time and then adjust insulin doses in response. ] Joe Carlson - Star Tribune Minneapolis, MN
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