Power boat buyers seek value as new models drop price
Edina couple Hellier and wife shop for their first boat without visiting showrooms. Bruns wick and other manufacturers push lower entry prices as buyers demand more features for less. Used boats outsell new five to one amid cautious recovery, with dealers betting on value to revive sales.
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Tike Hellier
Hellier
Edina
Minn
Brunswick
National Marine Manufacturers Association
Matt Gruhn
Marine Retailers Association of the Americas
Brooklyn Park
Gruhn
United States
Dusty McCoy
McCoy
Cedar Rapids firm to expand green marker line with grant
MCG BioComposites wins a 49875 i6 Green Challenge Grant from the U S Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration to build tooling for a larger plant market. Owner Sam McCord notes a new 24 inch high plant marker with angled face will target arboretums and botanical gardens in the U S and Canada. The firm uses corn cob fiber and recycled plastics and has prior Green Thumb Award and Green Dot Holdings ties in Kansas.
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Cedar Rapids
MCG BioComposites
U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration
Sam McCord
Botanical and Arboretum Garden
McCord
U.S
Canada
Direct Gardening Association
Green Dot Holdings
Cottonwood Falls
Kan
Iowa
Lion
Iowa Economic Development Authority Board
Clickstop expands profit sharing to part time workers
Urbana Iowa based Clickstop extends its employee profit sharing to part timers working 30 hours a week and at least 2,000 total hours. The program now targets gross profit after advertising and pays every eligible employee a bonus proportional to pay when GPA targets are met. Guenther notes monthly goals and weekly progress updates.
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Iowa
Clickstop
Tim Guenther
Guenther
Clickstop Cares
Microsoft issues emergency IE fix for Windows XP users
Microsoft releases an urgent Internet Explorer patch after FireEye warned of a sophisticated hacker group exploiting a bug. XP support had ended April 8, but Microsoft opted to push the update to remaining XP customers via Windows Update despite earlier statements. Adrianne Hall quoted.
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Microsoft Corp
Microsoft
Fire- Eye Inc
U.S
Adrienne Hall
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