Brooks Johnson

Shawna Nelson will be the fourth chief executive of the La Farge, Wis.-based cooperative and the first woman to lead the business.

And just as importantly, where is the money to grow those ideas into businesses?

Best Buy boosting online offerings with third-party sellers this summer

About 40 employees will lose their jobs as the Golden Valley-based company pivots to a new “strategic growth office.”

Jim Snee said handing his unnamed successor a started but unfinished transformation at the Austin, Minn., food company is “the right thing to do.”

The Maplewood-based company wants to launch 1,000 new products in the next three years and automate some factory work that could eventually reduce head count by 700 people.

“Our on-time-in-full performance out of the factories has not been that great,” CEO Bill Brown said last month.

KLN Family Brands, which makes pet food and candy, has given out profit-sharing checks for 25 years.

Minnetonka-based agribusiness Cargill expects Americans to buy 75 million pounds of chocolate for Valentine’s Day.

Comedians and “Detroiters” stars Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson bid farewell to the alien Chazmo in a homage to E.T.