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Michelle Mayo is asked the question all the time, but it doesn't stop her from laughing when she answers it. 'If I was related to those Mayos,' she says, 'do [...]

American Express Financial Corporation, formerly known as IDS, occupies about 1.5 million square feet of office space in six different buildings in downtown Minneapolis, at an annual cost of about [...]

How the Breathe Right nasal strip became a consumer product phenomenon King Arthur dispatched a dozen knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, Ponce de Leon tramped Florida swampland [...]

Throughout its 17-year history, APA Optics Inc. has been long on promise and short on performance. In 1994, the designer and manufacturer of laser scanners and UV detectors lost $468,881 [...]

Marvin and Susan Valento built PC Tailors into a $16-million-business with eight years of hard work. In just months, it all came crashing down amid allegations of abuse, stalking, and [...]

To get an idea how much retailing has changed in the last five or six years, you need only take a 5-mile drive east along Interstate 494 from Edina to [...]

Today is a great day to sell a house. Barry Berg, the top-selling real estate agent in Minnesota and one of the top selling agents in the country, only has [...]

Why Irwin Jacobs, Ted Deikel, and Carl Pohlad are chasing the former Viking great When I make a deal with somebody, I want him to be able to look at [...]

Ron Matricaria did more than diversify St. Jude Medical from its dominant position in the heart-value market. He reintroduced the concept of risk-taking. The thing Walter Sembrowich remembers most about [...]

Louis Fors Hill has long suffered from comparisons with the man known simply as the Empire Builder. But he's found peace in himself and a foundry in Crystal. Though early [...]

25 Before Corporate Report Minnesota came along, business news in each of the (four) daily newspapers rarely consisted of anything more than a press release or two and pages of [...]

The U of M Hospital and Clinic has stabilized under CEO Greg Hart, but the patient may be terminally ill For most of its 83 years, the University of Minnesota [...]

stock worth more than $140 million. Driscoll is a member of the Hill family. The Musser family of St. Paul also controls Weyerhaeuser lumber wealth. Elizabeth Musser, widow of John [...]

MaryAnne London Gears vows to make a go of it with the Chapel of Love -- reception to follow at Camp Snoopy A man and a woman marry because both [...]

Has the long-awaited turnaround of Dayton Hudson's department stores division finally arrived? Dayton Hudson Corporation's announcement that sales had increased 9 percent at its department store division in February was [...]

Alan Arthur is the executive director of the Central Community Housing Trust, one of the largest and most profitable nonprofit developers doing business in Minneapolis. He lives in Orono, but [...]

Ted Deikel has spent most of his life putting as much distance as possible between himself and his memories of growing up on the North Side of Minneapolis. His childhood [...]

McNeil Bryan and William Williamson have fished together, brewed beer together, and started the home alarm industry together. Now they're teaming up for something really big. IT IS EARLY OCTOBER [...]

Solid Gold's Robert Sabes fights allegations that he's married to the mob Robert W. Sabes' career in the gaming business, a business that is making so many of his friends [...]

Lisa A. Gray represents the 'breastaurant' that's the scene of controversy - and long lines hooters at the Mall of America may be the most politically incorrect business in Minnesota, [...]

Under glorious blue skies, South Dakota buried the leaders of its economic development efforts Mary Birkeland learned about the death of her husband the same way the rest of Sioux [...]

William W. McGuire, United HealthCare Corporation IN 1988, UNITED HEALTHCARE CORPORATION lost almost $37 million on sales of $440 million, and its stock traded at a high of $2.60. Last [...]

Ralph Burnet has the easy manner of someone who has made it, someone who doesn't have to worry about the length of time between paychecks. It's there in his deep [...]

Eleven years ago Cargill Inc. topped CORPORATE REPORT's first ranking of Minnesota's largest private companies. In this edition of the Private 100, Cargill remains where it has always been: at [...]

Ceridian may get more ink, but Control Data Systems has a compelling story to tell When Larry Perlman, CEO of Control Data Corporation announced last year that the company would [...]

Star Tribune sports columnist Sid Hartman may have hundreds of 'close personal friends,' but it is unlikely that any are closer or more personal than Al Rubinger. Friends since childhood [...]

The news that two of the heaviest hitters in commercial real estate were teaming up was too good to keep Eric J. Wieffering is staff writer of CORPORATE REPORT MINNESOTA. [...]

As CEO of the newly created HealthSpan Health Systems, Gordon Sprenger runs the Twin Cities' largest hospital company -- and one of the most vulnerable HealthSpan Health Systems Corporation, the [...]

Haunted by the memory of his father, Mel Maranell became obsessed with business success -- and lived to regret it. Melvin C. Maranell is trying to tell his story. He [...]

What a difference a year makes. Back then, Zeos International Ltd. was being celebrated as the country's fastest growing company. Today, Zeos founder and CEO Gregory Herrick defends his company's [...]

The worst of what happened and hopeful suggestions for the future Economists use the term 'market failure' to describe a situation in which one or more conditions of a 'sound [...]

Why didn't MEI-Regis work? A couple of reasons. The six members of the MEI-Regis Salon Corporation board had much on their minds as they gathered in MEI's conference room one [...]

The University of St. Thomas cleared nearly $21 million in the year ended June 30, 1990, and more than $10 million the next year. Now that's a business school. Monsignor [...]

Corporate mandates have led to more autonomy in Rochester and new competition -- other IBM divisions If IBM Rochester were an independent company, its 1991 revenues of $14 billion would [...]

Siblings search for ghosts and metaphysical market share Nancy Wilson heard noises in the attic of her East St. Paul home soon after she moved in. 'It sounded like someone [...]

The principals of North Central Food Systems have seen some lean times, but they now relish the company's status as one of the world's largest Hardee's franchisees DAVID GUCKENBERG claims [...]

KATHLEEN PARKER'S father sold grain silos in North Dakota. John Parker's father was n the Army for 20 years. She was only 28, and he was just 30, when in [...]

CORPORATE REPORT MINNESOTA first tried to identify the wealthiest people in the state in 1973. The search was confined to the business community, and the final product, 'Minnesota's 12 Wealthiest [...]

New Age, Old Story Like other less enlightened entrepreneurs, Horst just can't seem to let go RICK GOLDBERG, the owner of Progressive Beauty Supply Inc. and the Midwest distributor of [...]

THE KING OF COON RAPIDS REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER Jim Stanton will call someone, almost anyone, a 'stupid son of a bitch' whenever he feels the occasion merits it. To hear [...]

GRAFFITI BRIDGE, Prince's cinematic sequel to the 1984 hit Purple Rain, opened November 2 and quickly became regarded as one of the worst movies of 1990. The plot, to use [...]

IF YOU RENT office space in downtown Minneapolis, chances are that it's owned by a Canadian company, Brookfield Development Inc. If you like Kemp's Ice Cream, Koninklijke Wessanen N.V. of [...]

AT 24 STORIES and a cost of $82 million, the 8500 Tower in Bloomington was the biggest and most expensive office tower ever built in the Twin Cities suburbs. True [...]

Norman Kerr's Trials and Tribulations The IDS deal may be in limbo, but that seems to be the least of his problems. NORMAN J. KERR, former advertising executive and hotel [...]

INTERNATIONAL Multifoods Corporation is the leading U.S. manufacturer of surimi, a processed seafood that might be described as a crab wanna-be. It looks like crab, it smells like cqrab, and [...]

The Mikulays' SPACE CRAFT Patience, stubborn bargaining, and an eye for value result in repeated windfalls for a pair of parking lot operators. THE CITY BLOCK bounded by Tenth and [...]

Implanting Profitability Orthomet turns to manufacturing and returns to profitability THOMAS A. WISKOW spent much of April crossing far-flung time zones. Wiskow, the chief executive officer and president of Orthomet [...]