On the Street business news, July 22 – Alexandria Echo Press

SERVPRO held its 53rd once-a-year conference from July 5-9 at the Hilton Anatole Dallas in Dallas, TX. SERVPRO of Douglas and Otter Tail counties obtained the Founder’s Platinum Award at a gala award ceremony.

Trevor R. Rossum, operator of the community SERVPRO joined a team of additional than 1,050 franchise house owners in attendance. The event also acknowledged 58 SERVPRO business owners who surpassed a million bucks in earnings for the to start with time in the past business 12 months.

“It’s remarkable and satisfying to acquire this award,” explained Rossum, “specially in this tricky business surroundings. At a time when there appeared to be far more worries than remedies, SERVPRO continued to offer qualified guidance and support. This allowed our team of dedicated remediation experts to proceed to deliver reputable, prompt, professional hearth and drinking water cleanup and restoration, mould mitigation, and remediation expert services to residence and company house owners in our community when they essential our help.”

Viking Lender, with locations in Alexandria and Ashby, not long ago hired Ryan Blakesley as a small business banker in the Alexandria site.

Blakesley is an Alexandria native and a graduate of Jefferson Large University as properly as a graduate from the Alexandria Space Specialized and Local community College or university with an associate’s diploma in finance and credit score management.

Mark Grandgenett, president of Viking Lender, mentioned, “We are psyched to welcome Ryan back to the Viking Lender family. Ryan has 12 decades of banking expertise with a large emphasis on industrial and small business banking, which includes past credit rating assessment working experience below at Viking Bank.”

Viking Financial institution is a regionally owned Local community Bank chartered in the Town of Alexandria, with a branch in Ashby.

Geneva Cash in Alexandria was named a Best Place of work for the fourth consecutive 12 months, in accordance to the Star Tribune, which recognizes the most progressive businesses in Minnesota dependent on staff opinions (gathered by way of a third-celebration survey).

The survey steps engagement, organizational wellness, and satisfaction at general public, private and nonprofit corporations throughout Minnesota.

With regards to the honor, Geneva Cash founder and CEO Mark Watkins explained, “We’ve always stated ‘Geneva Funds is the ultimate group activity.’ From working day-just one, we’ve designed a actual hard work to obtain men and women who align with that mentality, and our group tradition is a huge issue in the accomplishment we’ve seen above the decades.”

Geneva Capital President Andrew Cavers additional, “Earning this award is generally a ‘feel-good’ for the staff. It’s unquestionably some thing we hope for when we comprehensive the Best Workplaces survey, but we really don’t just acquire the award and move on. We use it to assist gauge the general sentiments of our staff. We dissect the success and identify regions we want to increase. As a chief, listening to personnel and studying how we can make Geneva an even far better area to operate is the authentic win.”

A entire record of those chosen is offered at

https://www.startribune.com/mn-top rated-workplaces

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Arvig has been named just one of Minnesota’s Major Workplaces for 2022 by the Star Tribune, creating it the only web services service provider to rank in the newspaper’s annual study this 12 months.

This is the fourth year staff have offered responses that premiums Arvig as just one of the very best companies to work for in Minnesota. Arvig ranks No. 38 among the 50 major big corporations on the checklist of 200 workplaces. Arvig was formerly recognized as a Top rated Office in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

“The credit history for this Leading Workplaces difference goes to Arvig’s excellent staff members,” stated David Arvig, vice president and COO at Arvig. “This recognition is a reflection of their generate to provide our communities, determination to clients and determination to shaping a enterprise lifestyle that inspires us to do our best get the job done just about every working day.”

The analysis provided responses from more 79,000 personnel at Minnesota public, personal and nonprofit organizations. The study measures employee engagement, organizational well being and satisfaction.

To qualify for the Star Tribune Top rated Workplaces, a corporation should have additional than 50 employees in Minnesota. Around 4,000 companies ended up invited to participate.

Headquartered in Perham, Minnesota, Arvig is a nearby, staff-owned broadband and total-services telecommunications company.