Business

The Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota was alerted recently to a case of business identity theft targeting Import Auto Sales, LLC, a used car dealership located in St. Louis Park. A fraudulent website with a similar business name and using the company’s physical...

More than half of Minnesota’s workforce is employed by the state’s 500,000 small businesses. That’s more than 1.2 million Minnesotans, many of whose livelihoods depend on clean water. From tourism to microbreweries to agriculture, the Land of 10,000 Lakes has as strong a link...

Recent revelations that Walmart, the world’s biggest corporation, is maintaining secret subsidiaries in well-known offshore tax havens are outrageous but far from surprising to small business owners. That’s because we’re used to seeing large corporations abuse the tax system...

Last year, WE Fest, one of the biggest country music festivals in the country, was sold to Townsquare Media, and this being the first year the Connecticut-based media company ran WE Fest, many wondered what changes this year could bring for the event. Businesses alongside the Detroit...

A Texas-based debt collection company whose employees harassed and threatened more than 100 small businesses across Minnesota is now facing a $500,000 penalty and a consent order that requires the company to change its ways, including rewriting its collection manual and retraining...

Earlier this year, I visited Cuba to talk with agriculture and export officials about ways to open up new economic opportunities for businesses and farmers in Minnesota. More than anything else on the trip, I was struck by the enthusiasm of everyday Cubans for renewed ties with the...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota’s attorney general is accusing secondhand retail chain Savers of lying to donors about what it does with the money it makes from selling their used goods. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Hennepin County District Court, Attorney General Lori Swanson alleges...