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Business Record | | Record Business Inquire about event sponsorship opportunities or reserve your table today www.dmu.edu/glanton or 515-271-1463 2 CONTACT US (515) 288-3336 | [email protected] FOLLOW US TABLE OF CONTENTS www.businessrecord.com VOLUME 36 | NUMBER 29 | JULY 20, 2018 www.facebook.com/DMBusinessRecord @BusinessRecord LEADERSHIP PUBLISHER Chris Conetzkey (515) 661-6081 | [email protected] EDITORIAL EDITOR Suzanne Behnke @businessrecord | Twitter: businessrecord.com (515) 661-6085 | [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Perry Beeman (515) 661-6086 | [email protected] Beats: Economic Development | Transportation | Energy & Environment SENIOR STAFF WRITERS Joe Gardyasz (515) 661-6084 | [email protected] Beats: Insurance & Investments | Health & Wellness | Manufacturing & Logistics | HR & Education Kent Darr (515) 661-6083 | [email protected] Beats: Real Estate & Development | Banking & Finance | Law & Government STAFF WRITER Kate Hayden (515) 288-3478 | [email protected] Beats: Tech & Innovation 4 6 18 NEWSROOM OPERATIONS MANAGER John Retzlaff (515) 661-6082 | [email protected] Calendar | On the Moves 4 BYERS: LET’S KEEP RAY’S 6 JOHN TWARDOS 21 CALENDAR PICKS COPY EDITOR Kurt Helland LEGACY OF WELCOMING Take a closer look at the new Your first look at upcoming events IMMIGRANTS ALIVE president and CEO of Lutheran ART & PRODUCTION Services of Iowa. CREATIVE DIRECTOR 22 BOB RAY’S THOUGHTFUL Joe Crimmings 4 MICROFICTION MONDAYS LEGACY SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Ariane Criger OFFER NEW TWIST ON 8 COVER STORY: The Elbert Files: By Dave Elbert GRAPHIC DESIGNER OFT-IGNORED PUSH BEAUTIFUL DAY Sami Schrader ALERTS AT THE OFFICE PHOTOGRAPHER 23 THE HIDDEN BENEFIT OF Duane Tinkey Workplace design, like Holmes TRANSPARENCY SALES 5 SMART WAY TO MANAGE Murphy’s new Waukee office, can Marketing: By Drew McLellan DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING CASH SAFELY drive worker appeal and retention Sara Brown DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Katherine Harrington 18 LIFTING THE COMMUNITY SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES New facility at Drake University Lori Bratrud Kristi Edwards headlines Boys and Girls Clubs ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE expansion Laura Stapes PROJECT COORDINATOR Kolbie Creger ADMINISTRATION BPC VICE PRESIDENT Jason Swanson WHO’S IN THIS ISSUE? BUSINESS MANAGER A list of local people and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Eileen Jackson ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST Becky Hotchkiss Abbey Barrow, 18 Dan Keough, 8 OFFICE MANAGER Laura Stegemann Jon Bowermaster, 22 Marty Martin, 18 INSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE Terry Branstad, 22 Jennifer Mertz, 8 Alison Damon Jay Byers, 4 Rebecca Moomey, 5 BPC CHAIRMAN Connie Wimer Mo Collins, 4 Marvin Pomerantz, 22 BPC PRESIDENT Janette Larkin Greg Edwards, 4 Robert Ray, 4, 22 Cannady Fritzjunker, 6 Tom Stoner, 23 Business Record® (USPS 154-740, ISSN 1068-6681) is 2018 20, July published by Business Publications Corporation Inc., Dick Gilbert, 22 John Twardos, 6 The Depot at Fourth, 100-4th Street, Des Moines, Iowa Suzie Glazer Burt, 18 Jodie Warth, 18 50309, (515) 288-3336. Contents © 2018 Business Record. Published weekly. Annual subscriptions $69.95. Doug Gulling, 5 Single copy price is $1.75. Copies of past issues, as available, may be purchased for $4.50 each. Periodicals Postage Paid at Des Moines, Iowa. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Business Publications, The Depot at Fourth, 100-4th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309. | Record Business 3 THE INSIDER notebook CHRIS SUZANNE PERRY KENT JOE KATE HAYDEN Bits and bites of the finer side of Iowa business CONETZKEY BEHNKE BEEMAN DARR GARDYASZ staff writer publisher editor managing editor senior staff writer senior staff writer In case you businessrecord.com | Twitter: @businessrecord @businessrecord | Twitter: businessrecord.com Byers: Let’s keep Ray’s legacy of welcoming immigrants alive missed it... BY JOE GARDYASZ A brief look back at news from the “As we’re looking in terms of talent recruitment and past week on BusinessRecord.com As I was meeting with Greg Edwards and Jay retention, we’ve been the fastest-growing metro in the Byers recently for an interview, I asked them how they Midwest, but of course many areas of Iowa have been Airport records remembered former Gov. Robert Ray, who died July 8. losing population. As we continue to grow our state and The Des Moines airport hit a Edwards, president of Catch Des Moines, recalled specifically Greater Des Moines, we’re going to have to record in June — the highest how he enjoyed sitting at Gov. Robert Ray’s continue to attract that top international talent. I think in number of monthly passengers table at Rotary Club of Des Moines meetings. many ways, we still look at Governor Ray as that shining in airport history. “He never had a bad word to say about example of how to do that, and that that American dream https://bit.ly/2NdXnYB anybody. You could be having a really lousy still needs to be possible.” day and you’d go sit next to Bob Ray at lunch, Over the past few years, Greater Des Moines’ and you’d leave there just feeling refreshed foreign-born population has actually grown twice as Sukup loses founder — that was just the ambience he gave you.” fast as the national average, he said. Des Moines has Eugene Sukup, founder of Greater Des Moines Partnership CEO seen 25.1 percent growth in its foreign-born population, innovative ag company Sukup Byers added: “I’ve never heard anyone say a according to the American Community Survey for 2009- Manufacturing in Sheffield, died bad word about the guy — and he was governor 2014, compared with a 9.8 percent average nationally. July 12. for many years, Des Moines mayor, the CEO of an “That’s been a big part of our growth, and it needs to https://bit.ly/2JmAzTR insurance company [Wellmark] — and yet, continue to fuel our growth,” Byers said. “The No. 1 issue everybody loved him. It’s a special leader who for our companies is talent, and international talent Iowa Realty + can lead such a diverse group of entities and needs to continue to be a part of that.” NAI Global still accomplish a lot in a way that everyone The U.S. immigrant population reached a record high of The Des Moines-based still likes you. It’s impressive.” 43.7 million in 2016, and by 2023 is expected to reach 14.8 brokerage has formed an Of course, one of Ray’s biggest percent of the U.S. population, which would surpass a level alliance with the international legacies was building Iowa’s reputation as the country last saw in 1910, according to the American commercial real estate firm. a welcoming and open state for immigrants, Community Survey. Between 2010 and 2016, the immigrant https://bit.ly/2mi8dRO and it’s an atmosphere that Iowa needs to population in Iowa grew by nearly 15 percent, which was retain, Byers said. among the highest immigrant growth rates in the country. UI to close DM center The University of Iowa announced it will close the Iowa Center for Higher Education by the end of 2018. https://bit.ly/2JlrY3L Microfiction Mondays offer new Third floor at twist on oft-ignored push alerts Broadlawns BY KATE HAYDEN Broadlawns Medical Center will expand by adding a third, The literary-minded among us have heard that urban legend of Ernest 41,900-square-foot floor to the Hemingway’s shortest story ever told: “For sale, Baby shoes, Never Worn.” hospital’s Sands Building. In college, I had a literature professor riff short stories on Twitter, https://bit.ly/2KWnTJh 120-character tweets as either stand-alone stories or serial “chapters.” In that sense, microfiction is nothing new — but writing microfiction through mobile push alerts sure is. That’s what startup Serial Box is launching with Microfiction Mondays, a new initiative releasing Read more notebook items anytime at 150-character or fewer short stories out to app users every businessrecord.com/notebook July 20, 2018 20, July week. The sample push notices Serial Box posted online read more like writing prompts than a full-circle piece, but we can’t all be Hemingway — maybe this is an option to get those left-brain creative juices flowing. I just downloaded the app after tech author Mo Collins flagged the story for me. It seems like a great way to test- Business Record | | Record Business drive the app’s service, and a creative kick to keep users’ eyes on the developer’s notifications. 4 INSIDER NOTEBOOK Smart way to manage cash safely BY STEVE DINNEN In these heady up-and-down market days, it could be wise This is how CDARS works: You go to a participating bank to keep some cash set aside.