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Alliant Energy wants to buy the Midwest ten more hours
A Wisconsin utility is turning carbon dioxide into a way to save electricity for later. The harder experiment is changing the grid without losing the people who pay for it.
Associated Bank makes room for the next customer.
A Midwest bank sold yesterday’s low-yield assets to finance tomorrow’s relationships. The bill was real. So was the change in its earnings.
First Merchants got big. Can it stay close?
A Muncie bank built its business on personal attention. A century of growth, a fair-lending reckoning and a new acquisition make that promise harder - and more interesting - to keep.
Commerce Bank's quiet war on waiting
Commerce Bank built its business on personal relationships. Its next move is to remove the paperwork, payment delays and awkward handoffs that get between people and their money.
WEC Energy Group and the price of keeping the lights on
A $37.5 billion construction plan puts this Midwest utility at the intersection of rising electricity demand, retiring coal plants, and a deceptively simple promise: power that shows up.
Ikove Capital builds the company a patent can’t
A university invention can be brilliant and commercially homeless. Ikove Capital’s Startup Nursery supplies the people, capital, and market work that turn research into a business.
The Verizon Store From Grand Forks That Quietly Passed 100 Locations
It sells the same phones as everyone else. The bet BeMobile made was on the 20 minutes after you buy one.
Wolter
The Wisconsin forklift dealer that turned a garage full of spare parts into a thirteen-state material handling empire - one acquisition at a time.