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Contact: Jennifer Bonk, Board Secretary Phone – (608) 365-8835 E-mail – info@slwta.org Beloit, WI - The Stateline World Trade Association (SLWTA) welcomes Marge Bevers, Greater Rockford Airport Authority, Foreign Trade Zone Administrator & Properties Specialist to its Thursday February 25, 2010 dinner meeting held at The Beloit Inn, 500 Pleasant St., at 5:30 p.m. Her presentation will focus on...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 MADISON — Governor Jim Doyle announced today that the Village of Tigerton, Shawano County, will receive a $147,000 grant from the Community Development Block Grant–Public Facilities (CDBG-PF) program of the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to fund installation of sanitary sewers, storm sewers, curb and gutter and street improvements in conjunction with the...

Contacts: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661 Legislation Will Help Fund Projects That Will Create Hundreds of Jobs in Wisconsin WISCONSIN RAPIDS - Governor Jim Doyle today signed into law Senate Bill 440, which allows the state to maximize...

Contact: Bill Rubin/Jacki Bradham, St. Croix EDC, 715-381-4383 C. Willi Myles, called ‘America’s everyday comedian’, will provide the entertainment at St. Croix EDC’s Business of the Year banquet on Thursday, February 25th at the University Center Ballroom at UW-River Falls. Myles takes everyday life challenges and applies humor to them. Banquet attendees are assured of laughs and a unique look at...

CONTACT: Kevin Pixley, 608-890-3450, pixley@wisc.edu MADISON - When corn breeder Kevin Pixley arrived on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in November, one of the first things he had to do was learn to use the word "corn." "I had to constantly remind myself to call it corn instead of maize, which was what I'd been calling it for 20 years," explains...

Contact: Kelley Dixon Marketing Assistant First Business Financial Services, Inc. Phone 608-232-5774 kdixon@firstbusiness.com MADISON, WI, February 5, 2010 – First Business Financial Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: FBIZ) announced today that Joni Ciula has been promoted to Senior Treasury Analyst and that Brian Spielmann has been promoted to Senior Financial Accountant. Joni joined First Business in 2003. Since then she has held several positions in various entities of...

Join a Discussion on Race and Shifting Demographics at a Special Academy Evenings Event on February 16 @ MMoCA in Madison With an African American president and Latina supreme court justice, it would seem that America is on its way to becoming a more pluralistic place. But what about here in Wisconsin, where minorities today comprise 15% of the state...

Contacts: Bryan Roessler (mailto:broessler@wisafetycouncil.org) , Director of Wisconsin Safety Council, (608) 661-6915 Nick George (mailto:nick.george@mwfpa.org) , Executive Director, Midwest Food Processors Association, (608) 255-9946 Conference Targets Employers; February 18 in Wisconsin Dells February 5, 2010, Madison -- The Wisconsin Safety Council has partnered with the Midwest Food Processors Association to offer a conference for employers to gather and learn from industrial safety experts. To...

The two companies close on the previously announced merger February 3, 2010, Madison, WI and Naperville, IL — CustomCall Data Systems, Inc. and Concretio.com, Inc. announced today that they have closed on their pending merger. The two companies offer complementary software and services to communications service providers in all segments of the telephone, cable, and wireless industries. Operating under the...

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