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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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Target happy with September, uncertain about holidays

By Dan Haugen | 10/08/09
Target is happy with its September sales figures and says third-quarter profits should be better than expected as a result.
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Alliant Tech wins $49M contract for missile warning system

By Dan Haugen | 10/07/09
Alliant Techsystems has been awarded a $49.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for a missile warning system. The announcement comes a day after the company laid off 550 employees in northern Utah.
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Target says it will match Wal-Mart toy discounts

By Dan Haugen | 10/07/09
Target says it will match a round of toy discounts announce by Wal-Mart last week, CNBC reports. The price-matching signals the start of what's expected to be a season of aggressive price promotions.
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3M planning billion-dollar shopping spree, CEO says

By Dan Haugen | 10/07/09
3M CEO George Buckley tells Bloomberg that the Minnesota manufacturer plans to spend about $1 billion on acquisitions in the next 12 months.
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St. Jude Medical says hospitals stocking fewer devices

By Dan Haugen | 10/06/09
St. Jude Medical believes hospitals are being more conservative with their inventories of certain medical devices, and that led to lower than expected sales in recent months.
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Medtronic device saves a life by taking a bullet

By Dan Haugen | 10/06/09
The Pioneer Press catches a medical journal story about a Medtronic heart implant that took a bullet, saving the life of a gunshot victim.
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Target says 26 new stores will create 5,000 jobs

By Dan Haugen | 10/06/09
Target says its injecting more than 5,000 new jobs into local economies with the opening of 26 new stores. The Minneapolis retail giant announced today that grand openings are scheduled for the stores on Sunday.
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Coach suing Target for alleged knock-off handbags

By Dan Haugen | 10/05/09
The Associated Press reports that luxury handbag maker Coach is suing Target for selling "exact and/or confusingly similar reproductions" of the company's upscale products.
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Best Buy holiday campaign to focus on social networks

By Dan Haugen | 10/05/09
Best Buy is dreaming of a viral Christmas. The New York Times' Bits Blog reports that the consumer-electronics retailer is ramping up its social media push in advance of the holiday season.
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Pepsi to fold PepsiAmericas into new bottling giant

By Dan Haugen | 10/05/09
PepsiAmericas CEO Robert Pohlad will serve on an advisory board as PepsiCo pours the bottler's operations into a larger distribution group.