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CALL: Mark A. Kassel Partner 608.258.4272 Law Firm Tapped to Provide Intellectual Property Services for the Nation’s Leading Medical Research Agency Dedicated to Improving Health Milwaukee – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $208 million contract to the firm for Intellectual Property services for up to 10 years. Beginning this month, the firm will...

For more information, contact Kurt Bauer 608-441-1203 or bauer@wisbank.com MADISON – On Tuesday, October 27, the state Assembly passed three bills aimed at preventing the spread of foreclosures in Wisconsin. After this action, Kurt Bauer, Wisconsin Bankers Association (WBA) president/CEO released the following statement: “WBA thanks Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan (D-Janesville) for his leadership on this critical issue facing the residents...

CONTACT: Jennifer Bonk Stateline World Trade Association 608.365.8835 jenniferb@greaterbeloitchamber.com Beloit, WI - The Stateline World Trade Association (SLWTA) welcomes Michael Hetzel to its November 19, 2009 dinner meeting, held at The Beloit Inn, 500 Pleasant St. Michael will be speaking on the current reality of global manufacturing including data and context surrounding the U.S., China, India, and other nations. Michael’s presentation will include the recent...

Contact: John Reinemann. WI Counties Assn (cell: 445-3039) Tom Frazier, Coalition of WI Aging Groups (cell: 770-0605) Lisa B. Nelson. (1-479-381-6485) A coalition of seniors, labor groups, county governments and retailers today praised the Wisconsin Assembly’s health committee for approving legislation that would lower drug prices by exempting them from the state’s 70-year-old “minimum markup law.” Members of People for Affordable Prescription Drugs...

Contact: Liz Schrum or Tom Still at 608-442-7557 Or visit http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com to learn more MADISON – Experts who have worked with early stage companies to secure federal grants or to gain access to technology developed in federal labs will speak at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, to be held Nov. 10-11 at Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. The line-up includes...

Contact: Jason A. Smith, communications director MADISON—Explore the links between global warming, the environment, and public health at the next Academy Evenings presentation, Heat Waves and High Water: Climate Change, Public Health, and the Wisconsin Landscape. University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Jonathan Patz, director of Global Environmental Health, will discuss research that indicates a relationship between the rise in global temperatures...

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...