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2 days ago | 
startribune.com | Brooks Johnson
OMAHA - Last year, Dairy Queen restaurants around the world brought in $6.4 billion in sales. By 2030, the Bloomington-based company wants franchisees to hit $10 billion. That's more than 4,500 Blizzards sold per minute around the clock. "We've got a long way to go," said International Dairy Queen CEO Troy Bader. "For us to get there, we need to make sure that every experience at every restaurant is exceptional every day.
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1 week ago | 
startribune.com | Brooks Johnson
By Brooks Johnson Berkshire Hathaway owns 2% of Apple stock, today worth $75 billion, and Buffett said Cook's leadership "made me more money than I ever have with Berkshire."For nearly five hours with only one short intermission, Buffett, and to a lesser extent Abel and fellow company leader Ajit Jain, took questions from shareholders. Buffett drew some of his biggest applause for comments on trade and tariffs.
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1 week ago | 
keenesentinel.com | Brooks Johnson
3M is still on track to stop making PFAS by the end of the year. But it’s probably going to take longer to stop using or selling the toxic “forever chemicals” completely. The Minnesota-based manufacturer disclosed last week a number of key inputs from outside suppliers — including batteries, circuit boards and gaskets — might still contain PFAS next year.
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1 week ago | 
madison.com | Brooks Johnson
3M is still on track to stop making PFAS by the end of the year. But it’s probably going to take longer to stop using or selling the toxic “forever chemicals” completely. The Minnesota-based manufacturer disclosed last week a number of key inputs from outside suppliers — including batteries, circuit boards and gaskets — might still contain PFAS next year.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Brooks Johnson
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2 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Brooks Johnson
3M is still on track to stop making PFAS by the end of the year. But it's probably going to take longer to stop using or selling the toxic "forever chemicals" completely. The Minnesota-based manufacturer disclosed last week a number of key inputs from outside suppliers - including batteries, circuit boards and gaskets - might still contain PFAS next year.
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2 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | Brooks Johnson
Yet many of the brand's most recognizable assets that helped make it the king of jerky - the logo, red packaging, Sasquatch - almost never happened, a new company history book reveals. And success did not come without some family drama. "A real struggle was going on inside the company between where we'd been and where we might be able to go," Jack Link said in the book the company put together for its 40th anniversary.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailygazette.com | Brooks Johnson
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2 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | Brooks Johnson
A $132 million manufacturing campus - where companies will transform crops into industrial chemicals otherwise made with petroleum and often sourced from overseas - is coming to Maple Grove. The demonstration-scale facility will be the first and flagship location for nonprofit BioMADE, which aims to build a national network of plants to bridge the gap between prototype and production, kickstarting the country's bio-industrial economy.
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2 weeks ago | 
chemicalprocessing.com | Brooks Johnson
3M is still on track to stop making PFAS by the end of the year. But it’s probably going to take longer to stop using or selling the toxic “forever chemicals” completely. The Maplewood, Minnesota-based manufacturer disclosed last week a number of key inputs from outside suppliers — including batteries, circuit boards and gaskets — might still contain PFAS next year.
