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Contact: Joshua Morby 414.791.9120 Flambeau River Biofuels has chosen Honeywell International Inc. to help design their proposed plant in River Falls, WI. Here are a few facts about the project: * Expected to be operational in 2012, the plant will use wood waste and forest residue to produce biodiesel. *...

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Steve Prestegard (920) 982-2511 Marketplace began reporting Northeast Wisconsin business news in October 1989, with a cover story on car dealer John Bergstrom. Bergstrom, whose car dealership group now is the largest in Wisconsin, is the cover story of the 20th anniversary Marketplace. The issue features a timeline of 20 years of events in Northeast Wisconsin business,...

Contacts: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Lora Klenke, Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, 608-224-5119 Partnership Follows Governor’s September Trade Mission to China MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced a major trade agreement between a Chinese company and Wisconsin ginseng growers...

Contact: Melissa DiMotto (262) 472-1195 dimottom@uww.edu WHITEWATER ­ Timothy J. Hyland Hall, the new home of the nationally recognized College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, was officially dedicated during a grand opening celebration Friday, Oct. 23. The $41.5 million state-of-the-art building opened in July 2009 and UW-Whitewater students began filling its classrooms and computer labs when the fall semester...

CONTACT: Alfonso Morales, 608-263-4848, morales1@wisc.edu MADISON - Alfonso Morales didn't sit in a library to do research for his graduate degrees. Instead, he worked as a vendor in Chicago's famed Maxwell Street Market, where he saw firsthand that public markets serve as fertile ground for entrepreneurs and new businesses, gathering places for communities, and an entry point into the economy and...

Contact: Chad Eckes Director of Marketing and Product Management email: ceckes@sajan.com phone: 877-426-9505 Connects Sajan GCMS™ Translation Management System to RightNow® CX RIVER FALLS, WI - October 28th, 2009 - Sajan, the leader in on-demand translation technology and services, announced today that it has a new relationship with RightNow, the leader in customer experience solutions delivered in the cloud. This relationship provides RightNow clients...

Contact: Angela Hemauer Food Insight Public Relations Email: ahemauer@foodinsight.net Phone: 515-669-3664 Who: Sarah “The Cheese Lady,” a nationally recognized cheese sculpture. What: Will magically turn a mammoth-sized Wisconsin Cheddar, weighing 1,000 pounds, into a glorious piece of art, celebrating the grand opening of the first Hy-Vee store in Wisconsin. Bucky Badger and other popular state icons will be present in the carving -giving Hy-Vee a grand...

Contact: Chelsea Hoffman Peterbilt Wisconsin & Illinois/JX Enterprises, Inc. Phone: 262.513.6457 Fax: 262.574.9945 ( Madison , Wis .) – Alex Debogorski has one of the most trying and dangerous jobs in the trucking industry, he drives tens of thousands of pounds over frozen lakes each winter. Alex, made famous from the show “Ice Road Truckers” on the...

CONTACT: Linda Diedrich Orion Energy Systems (920) 482-1988 Scott Jensen Chief Financial Officer Orion Energy Systems (920) 892-5454 MANITOWOC, WI, October 27, 2009 – Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OESX), a power technology enterprise that designs, manufactures and deploys energy management solutions for the commercial and industrial sectors, today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter ended September 30, 2009. Since December 2001, the...

For more information, contact Kurt Bauer 608/441-1203 or bauer@wisbank.com Bogus voice mail messages used to scare consumers into providing account information MADISON – Several Wisconsin banks and credit unions report a new vishing scam in south eastern Wisconsin, including but not necessarily limited to Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha Counties. Automated messages are being left on peoples’ voice mail system, including cell...

BOULDER, Colo. – The Ultimate Players Association, the National Governing Body for the sport of Ultimate in the United States, today announced the 2010 UPA College Championships will take place from May 28-31, 2010 in Madison, Wis. The event, which annually crowns the Division I men’s and women’s Ultimate national champions, will be hosted by the Madison Ultimate Frisbee...

(Milwaukee, WI)—The March of Dimes is accepting grant applications statewide that will address unmet maternal and child health needs. The 2010 applications are due on November 15th, 2009 at 4:00PM. Submission includes one signed copy and one emailed copy to Pamela Pfeffer, State Director of Program Services. “These grants address significant maternal and child health issues such as; smoking...

(Milwaukee, WI)— The Wisconsin Chapter of March of Dimes received the 2009 Audrey Manley Program Leadership Award at the Volunteer Leadership Conference held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. This national award recognizes one March of Dimes chapter that has developed and supported a community-based program that enhances awareness of the March of Dimes and...

Event at The Orchard in Baldwin includes WisDot Secretary Frank Busalacchi The West Central Wisconsin Rail Coalition (WCWRC) will hold its 2009 Annual Meeting on Friday, November 20th at The Orchard banquet facility, 571 U.S. Highway 63, Baldwin, Wisconsin, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The event is sponsored by the St. Croix County Highway Department. It is free and open...

Through its RFP for Energy Efficiency program, WPPI Energy recently awarded more than $50,000 in grants for energy efficiency projects to two industrial companies served by WPPI Energy member utilities. To date, WPPI Energy has funded 12 projects through the RFP for Energy Efficiency program, resulting in demand reductions of more than one megawatt and energy consumption decreases of six...