AUSTIN-A Raleigh, NC-based clothes cleaner is heading to Texas. Four shops will open in the Austin region and one in Houston. The firm boasts a technique that "cleans green" in an environmentally friendly process developed by a North Carolina professor.

MINNEAPOLIS-Marquette Capital Bank Bank hires three executives away from Firstar to establish new business, which will work together with the bank's commercial mortgage financing subsidiary, NorthMarq.

SAN DIEGO-Two merger partners today released estimated quarterly earnings that show a boost from the same time a year ago.

DENVER-The Plainfield, IN-based sporting goods chain plans to open its second store in the market by taking over an 80,000-sf, two-level store that was formerly a six-screen United Artists movie theater.