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Contact: Terrence Wall, CEO Phone: (608) 830-6301 Company: Johnson Bank Contact: Greg Dombrowski, President Phone: (608) 249-7800 Madison, WI. December 8, 2009 -- In the middle of an economic recession, one developer finds a way to bring success to the local business community. T. Wall Properties has completed a new three-story, 45,000 square foot office building in...

Website link: http://www.wfbf.com/archivej/htmArchive/showPage.aspx?page=15669.htm&id=15669 Contact: Casey Langan, Director of Public Relations 608-828-5711 WISCONSIN DELLS—Bill Bruins, Waupun, was reelected president of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation at the organization's 90th Annual Meeting in Wisconsin Dells. Bruins, who is a dairy farmer from...

Contact: Starr McCaffery 630-546-2050 or starr@soundsolutionsinc.net FITCHBURG, Wis., – NanoMedex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Fitchburg pharmaceutical company, recently was notified that it will be awarded a $2.23 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Continuing Renewal grant from the National Instiutes of Health. The grant will provide funding for NanoMedex to complete clinical development of its first product, Microfol™, and file...

A Positive Bounce in Hiring Expected, Record Number Expect No Change MILWAUKEE PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- U.S. employers anticipate a moderate increase in their hiring plans for Quarter 1 2010, according to the seasonally adjusted results of the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, conducted quarterly by Manpower Inc. "There is still a lot of ground to make up in...

Contact: Mike Ruzicka 414/778-4929 The Greater Milwaukee Association (GMAR) installed Julie Clarke, Realty Executives Integrity, as Chairwoman of the 4,000 member real estate association. Clarke took the oath of office at the GMAR’s annual Chairwoman’s Holiday Party, held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Wauwatosa on December 3, 2009. Clarke was elected to the GMAR Board in 2006, and served as the...

CONTACT: Dan Lutz, 608-364-5700, lutzd@ci.beloit.wi.us; Marc Anderson, 608-262-2674, nanopor@facstaff.wisc.edu MADISON - At first glance, a 50-cc Vespa scooter and a squad car may not appear to have much in common. However, a class of University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman engineering students and officials from Beloit, Wis., are making progress toward technologies that eventually could run a variety of vehicles on nothing...

CONTACT: Katherine Loving, kaloving@uhs.wisc.edu, 608-263-5714 MADISON - College students have a reputation for spending countless hours updating their Facebook status, tweeting with friends on Twitter and watching online videos. But University of Wisconsin-Madison students who work as consultants through TechShop, a student-based technology assistance program for Madison-area nonprofits, are finding a way to put all those hours at the keyboard...

CONTACT: Jennifer Neighbors (414) 476-5781 jennifer_neighbors@hotmail.com or Nancy Deptolla (262) 236-4175 nbdeptolla@sbcglobal.net MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. – BCI Exteriors of Menomonee Falls has been selected by Amcraft Building Products Company Inc. of Beloit, Wis. to be a Milwaukee-area dealer for its new GRANDURA premium replacement windows and vinyl siding. “We’re excited to be partnering with Amcraft because the GRANDURA line of high-quality, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly...

Contacts: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661 GREEN BAY – Governor Jim Doyle announced today that New North, Inc. of De Pere has received a $100,000 Regional Marketing grant from the Department of Commerce. The announcement was made at the New North Summit in Green Bay, where the Governor...