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Karen Lundegaard

Assistant Business Editor

Phone: 612-673-4151

E-mail: klundegaard@startribune.com

Karen Lundegaard supervises a team of five business reporters with topics ranging from consumer issues to food.

Recent content from Karen Lundegaard

• Carlson sells marketing business for $175 million
  Carlson Companies CEO Hubert Joly has frequently referred to Carlson Marketing as "the roots of the company," and with good reason.
  Nov 3, 2009
• Project: Lenders Gone Wild
  The collapse in real estate values is taking a toll on Minnesota’s small banks and credit unions. Regulators have seized and closed two banks since 2008, with dozens on a secret watch list - and banking officials say more will fail. That could have big implications for Minnesota’s economy.
  Jul 31, 2009
• Opus East files for liquidation
  Tight credit markets and a tough commercial real estate market continue to damage the nationwide developer.
  Jul 1, 2009
• Project: Special Project: Out of work
  Minnesota employers slashed jobs at an astonishing rate last year, scrambling to adjust to a recession that looks to be both deep and long. Over the coming weeks, these five MInnesotans who lost jobs will update readers on their lives.
  Mar 27, 2009
• Costlier feed and fuel push Hormel to lower outlook
  Rising prices finally caught up with the Austin-based producer of Spam, Jennie-O and other food.
  Aug 8, 2008
• What will we drive tomorrow?
  We asked the Big Five automakers - GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota and Honda - what the future holds for the fuel efficiency of their vehicles.
  Mar 6, 2008
• Megamall pads its résumé, adding 9 tenants
  With Minneapolis and St. Paul struggling to keep retailers downtown, the Mall of America solidified its place as Minnesota's retail hot spot Friday, announcing nine new tenants -- most of them new stores to the area.
  Feb 1, 2008
• Suit says Target products look suspiciously like Pottery Barn's
  Parent company Williams-Sonoma alleges copyright infringement.
  Dec 15, 2006