Des Moines Register: Business

An increase in vehicle deliveries to dealers helped Winnebago Industries' revenue rise by 29.2 percent in the second quarter, even if an extremely cold winter tempered potential sales, the company said Thursday.

Iowans caught up in an e-book price-fixing scam by some of the largest e-book publishers in the U.S. have started receiving checks or credits and should review their email accounts for messages from retailers, Attorney General Tom Miller said.

Shoppers will have to navigate around some construction at Merle Hay Mall beginning this week, as work begins in earnest on the $12 million project that will transform an upper bridge of the shopping center into a dine-in movie theater and brewpub.

Let's DU Lunch: Young Professionals Panel: 11:30a.m.-1 p.m., Des Moines Embassy Club, 666 Grand Ave., 34th floor of the Ruan Center.

A Muscatine County judge ordered Grain Processing Corporation to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty for violating pollution-control laws, the state attorney general said today.

AMES - Iowa farmland values dropped 5.4 percent during the past six months, according to a report released today, marking the end of a five-year run that saw land prices surge to record highs.

Winnebago Industries saw its revenues grow to $228.8 million in 2014's second quarter, up 29.2 percent from $177.2 million for the same time last year due to more deliveries of the company's motorhomes, the company reported today.

A group of investors in eastern Iowa plans to offer small loans to local businesses that focus on food, agriculture and sustainability.

A mystery data center project known as 'Project Alluvion' will not surface this week with a formal request for state-incentive dollars, said officials with the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

VERDICT: A Polk County jury this week awarded $12.4 million to the owners of a West Des Moines apartment complex who had sued the apartments' builders over leaks and mold the owners said took years to correct.