Sometimes a business needs a little coaching to be successful. That's where Jim Wyrostek comes in.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal-welfare groups and producers.

Managers' race has had a “significant” effect on the race of employees, according to a study of personnel data from a U.S. retailer over 30 months.

The St. Joseph Hospital board has chosen Dawn Rudolph as its new chief executive officer, the hospital reported Thursday. Rudolph, now chief operating officer for Dupont Hospital, will assume her new duties Dec. 1.

If you missed out on Washington's cash incentive program to trade in your old clunker, Uncle Sam still has a deal for you: The government will sell you rejects from its own fleet, even as it makes dealers scrap all those old cars that were collected from...

November is Career Development Month. With so many job seekers losing unemployment benefits this fall, now is a good time to review the principles of career development and job search, particularly for those in transition from one field to another.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators adopted a first-in-the nation mandate to lower electricity demand.

CHURUBUSCO — Maxim Medical Services, currently in LaOtto, says it will move its distribution and headquarters and 51 jobs to Allen County. The company is a medical equipment provider and says in a news release it will invest $1.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.

Chevrolet's sport utility vehicle named for the first day of spring had a rebirth this year, and the resulting 2010 Equinox is the best ever.

WASHINGTON — Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen lead the insurance industry's annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies to lure safety-conscious consumers to showrooms.

WASHINGTON — A decline in factory production in October signals that consumers and businesses remain cautious in their spending, with the economic recovery likely to be sluggish. At the same time, the weak economy is taming inflation.

Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry has appointed a 13-member committee to help spread the word of commercial opportunities in the area around Southtown Centre in southeast Fort Wayne.

With the holidays approaching, there are a lot of people carrying cash and valuables when out shopping. Often, people are dressed up, in a hurry and not paying attention.

Q: My sister-in-law has been giving my daughter, now age 4, an I-Bond as birthday gifts for the past four years.

WASHINGTON — The Commerce Department said Monday that retail sales rose 1.4 percent last month.

This is a consumer advice column written by the Better Business Bureau of Northern Indiana. It appears weekly in Business Monday.

CHICAGO — The shock of being laid off barely had time to set in before Jim Wessel began looking for another job.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana is holding about $385 million in its unclaimed property fund, some of which belongs to well-known Hoosiers such as John Mellencamp and Larry Bird.

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 79 Allen County taxpayers who are due a combined $79,894 in refund checks that were returned to the IRS because of mailing address errors.

Van Gilder & Trzynka, Fort Wayne, has been recognized as a Pro Bono Publico Law firm of the Year by the Indiana Bar Foundation.