UW-Madison: Toys useful with healthy foods, too
STUFF 'N' FOOD: CAN COLLECTIBLE TOYS OVERCOME FASCINATION WITH FAST FOOD?
MADISON - Every parent seems to know what McDonald's knows: Food and toys outsell food alone. But could toys be used to promote the sale of healthy food as well as calorie-rich fast food?
When Anna McAlister and T. Bettina Cornwell posed that question to two groups of preschoolers,...
St. Norbert College: Former Syracuse football star to come and speak
Monday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m.
DE PERE, WIS.: Don McPherson, Heisman Trophy runner-up in 1987 while playing quarterback at Syracuse, will lecture on dating violence in a presentation titled: “You Throw Like a Girl,” Monday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m. in Fort Howard Theatre, in the F. K. Bemis International Center located off third Street...
Quad/Graphics: Unveil interactive print solutions at DMA
New tools help marketers and publishers integrate print with emerging mobile technologies
SUSSEX, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: QUAD) announced today that it will unveil a number of interactive print solutions at the 2011 DMA Conference and Exhibition Oct. 1-6 in Boston, Mass. Quad, a global provider of print and related multichannel solutions for many of the country’s leading marketers...
AG Van Hollen: Announces judgment requiring First American Funding Co., LLC, to pay $144,000 for violations of state’s “No Call” list
MADISON — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the state has obtained a consent judgment against First American Funding Company, LLC, for violations of the state’s “No Call” law, along with other telemarketing laws.
First American, which markets residential mortgage loans to homeowners, is owned by Michael S. Eisenga and is located in Columbus, Wisconsin....
Kraft Foods: Sustainability experts to host panel discussion on nuturing the next generation of cocoa farmers
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Sep. 28 /CSRwire/ - /PRNewswire/ - Sustainability experts will gather on October 4 before the launch of the Chocolate Around the World exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago for a panel discussion on nurturing the next generation of cocoa farmers. World Cocoa Foundation, the poverty-fighting organization CARE, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Kraft Foods...
Sperry Van Ness: Madison announces lease to Grams Law Office
Madison, WI, September 28, 2011 – Sperry Van Ness, one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate investment brokerage firms, has announced that Jeff Jansen, CCIM, of the Madison, WI office has completed a lease of office space at 1651 John Q Hammons Dr, to David F. Grams and Associates. Their practice focuses on estate, business and personal financial...
U.S. Treasury: Announces five additional Wis. comunity banks receive $39.1 million to help small businesses access capital, create new jobs
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that five additional Wisconsin community banks received a total of $31.9 million as part of the final wave of funding provided through the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF). The SBLF, which was established as part of the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama signed into law, encourages...
NFIB: Small business cheers Walker’s “Back to Work” session
Madison (September 28, 2011) – Wisconsin’s largest advocate for small businesses today applauded Governor Scott Walker’s executive order this morning calling on the Legislature to dedicate a special session to dozens of initiatives aimed at creating jobs and growing the state’s economy.
“Now all of these issues that have been simmering for a while will be moved up to...
Baumbach: High unemployment situation dictates fast transition at DWD
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
When Scott Baumbach officially took over the Department of Workforce Development in June, he was ready.
That’s because he’d been deputy secretary since January and interim head of the department since May, following the abrupt resignation of Manny Perez. An labor law specialist, he’d also argued cases before the DWD for more than a decade in private...
Tuesday Trends sample: Milwaukee water industry rising, tobacco taxes mixed and Frontier falling
Below is an excerpt from the most recent edition of WisBusiness Tuesday Trends. The full version of this weekly look at the state of Wisconsin business is now available for free to anyone who signs up for the Tuesday Trends mailing list. The full product includes several items in each of the rising, mixed and falling categories plus a...
WisBusiness: With protesters outside, businesses use forum to tell Walker of need for skilled workers
By Arthur Thomas
For WisBusiness.com
MILWAUKEE -- Gov. Scott Walker was greeted by protesters today as he held the second of three planned job creation forums around the state.
Inside the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce building, business leaders told Walker that a lack of skilled workers is among the biggest barriers to job growth in the state. Other issues brought...
WisBusiness: PSC says utilities face $55M cost related to Milwaukee streetcar plans
At least three utilities face an estimated total cost of $55.5 million -- at minimum -- for changes as a result of a new streetcar line through downtown Milwaukee, according to a new PSC analysis.
Wisconsin Electric Power Company accounts for the bulk of that total as it faces some $45 million to move or modify electric, natural gas and...
