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  • 2025: Rhyme vs Repeat

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    By: Eric Lohmeier, CFA and Zach Eubank As we enter 2025, the usual suspects are likely to be the key drivers of the business environment in Iowa: interest rates, inflation, and the policy decisions that drive them. We look at much of the rest as noise. Firstly, interest rates. While on one hand there is…

  • How Iowa’s Manufacturing Sector Can Best Leverage Technological Advancements

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    By: Eric Lohmeier, CFA Excerpt from interview with Eric Lohmeier, CFA  in  “Iowa manufacturers outline advancements, challenges from integrating AI, robotics, vision systems to production” By Sarah Diehn in The Business Record June 14, 2024  The No. 1 priority for Iowa and manufacturers writ large is effectively instituting, and, more importantly, mandating uptake across the organization…

  • Rasmussen Group & Johnson Holding Company: Ideal Ready Mix & L&W Quarries

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    NCP acted as exclusive financial advisor to Johnson Holding Company shareholders in their sale of two subsidiaries, Ideal Ready Mix and L&W Quarries, to Iowa-based Rasmussen Group. The transaction, effective February 2024, represents an important milestone for both family-owned companies.

  • The Year That Was

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    By: Eric Lohmeier, CFA The year that was 2023 feels eerily similar to the first days of 2024.  Two plus feet of snow in the first few weeks, scrambling during school and event cancellations, and wait for it, looking through to February which hands us an extra day this year!  However, hope springs eternal, and…

  • Wright Service Corp & Impact7G

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    Wright Service Corp. is expanding their environmental consulting offerings via the acquisition of Iowa-based environmental consulting firm, Impact7G. NCP, Inc. proudly served as the exclusive financial advisor to Wright Service Corp. on the transaction.

  • New Age Farm-to-Table: AgTech’s Impact on a Sustainable Future

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    By: Owen Gerard, CFA Imagine yourself situated in a picturesque rural landscape, with rolling hills, verdant fields, and a bright blue sky overhead. You take your seat at a beautifully hand-crafted wooden table surrounded by your family and friends ready to enjoy a succulent meal from a bountiful harvest provided by the local land. The…

  • August 2023

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    In like a lion, out like a lamb? By: Eric Lohmeier, CFA March of 2023 ushered in a Category 5 hurricane in the US commercial banking landscape with the seemingly ‘overnight’ failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, followed in early May by the failure of First Republic. These institutions collectively held over $500B in…

  • Merchants Bonding Group & Foundation Surety & Insurance Solutions

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    NCP acted as exclusive financial advisor to Iowa-based Merchants Bonding Company in their majority investment in Foundation Surety & Insurance Solutions.

  • Facebook & Altoona

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    NCP assisted the City of Altoona in negotiating a development agreement with Facebook for the construction of a new data center. The resulting contract represented the first revenue-generating agreement between the City of Altoona and Facebook in their six year relationship.

  • John Deere & GUSS

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    NCP acted as exclusive financial advisor to GUSS Automation, LLC in their joint venture with Deere & Company. GUSS is a leading innovator in semi-autonomous, high-value crop sprayers.