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Dan Haugen

Dan Haugen covered small towns, police and courts for daily newspapers in Waterloo, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, S.D., before moving home to Minneapolis in 2006. Since then he's written for several community newspapers, as well as his own neighborhood news blog, Northeast Beat. He covered airlines, medical technology and general business stories for MinnPost.

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Ecolab sales helped by H1N1 flu fears

By Dan Haugen | 10/27/09
Ecolab's profits stayed healthy in the third quarter, thanks in part to public fears about the H1N1 swine flu. The company reported third-quarter results this morning. Net sales fell by 5 percent to $1.5 billion.
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3M partnering on water-leak detection products

By Dan Haugen | 10/27/09
3M announced Monday that it is partnering with a German company on a new portfolio of products to help utilities find leaks in underground water pipes.
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Target return policy better but CR says still confusing

By Dan Haugen | 10/26/09
Target has updated its return policy, but Consumer Reports pans the changes as too complicated.
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Caribou Coffee upgrading to energy-saving CFLs

By Dan Haugen | 10/26/09
Caribou Coffee is changing light bulbs. The company's supplier announced this morning that Caribou Coffee is mandating the use of compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs, in all of its corporate-owned coffee shops.
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Best Buy to sell GPS child-tracking device

By Dan Haugen | 10/23/09
Best Buy is about to release a GPS child-tracking device via its in-house Insignia brand. The product goes on sale today and costs $100, according to the product page on BestBuy.com.
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Select Comfort stock bounces up on surprising profits

By Dan Haugen | 10/23/09
I wonder if Select Comfort execs were jumping up and down in the showroom Thursday afternoon? The company's stock bounced up 6 percent after the bed retailer announced profits more than double what Wall Street analysts were forecasting.
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Target, others' book pricing prompts call for investigation

By Dan Haugen | 10/23/09
An association of independent booksellers is asking the U.S. Justice Department  to investigate Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon.com for what it believes is illegal, predatory pricing.
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Analyst: Wells Fargo profits 'unsustainable'

By Dan Haugen | 10/22/09
The Wells Fargo stagecoach hit a bump Wednesday afternoon, hours after announcing a record profit. The bank's stock dragged down the market after an influential and typically bullish analyst described its profits as "unsustainable."
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Calmer markets and weather boost Travelers profits

By Dan Haugen | 10/22/09
A less intense hurricane season and a slowly improving stock market helped quadruple net income at Travelers Cos., the Associated Press reports.
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Flu-fear products offset 3M's shrinking office supply sales

By Dan Haugen | 10/22/09
Managers are cutting back on office supplies, but thankfully for 3M, others are stocking up on flu masks and other health-care products.