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Contact: Amy Loudenbeck, Interim President Greater Beloit Chamber of Commerce (608) 365-8835 amyl@greaterbeloitchamber.com Contact: Bob Hanson, President Hanson Performance Alliance, LLC (612) 860-5358 BobH@HansonPerformanceAlliance.com Beloit, WI - After ten sessions of intensive leadership training, the Spring 2009 Supervising for Performance Series is sending eight graduates back to area businesses to put their skills to work. "This has been a great group of people who are, and will be,...

Contact: Amy Loudenbeck (608) 365-8835 amyl@greaterbeloitchamber.com Beloit, WI - The Partners of Vision Beloit - Greater Beloit Chamber of Commerce, Visit Beloit, Downtown Beloit Association and Greater Beloit Economic Development Corporation - are hosting a series of seven seminars for entrepreneurs and small businesses. The seminars are held on the second Thursday of each month at noon and will feature Ronald "Bud"...

Media Contact: Joan Collins or Deb Lea (608) 222-2899 Amy Lahner has joined Silver Spring Foods, Eau Claire, as a cost accountant. Previously she was a cost account manager at Hormel Foods in Rochelle, Ill. Lahner holds a degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she majored in comprehensive accounting. Silver Spring Foods, celebrating 80 years as a...

Contact: Carla Vigue, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today made the following statement regarding Chrysler: “Today, I learned that it is unlikely that Chrysler will exercise its option to purchase the Kenosha car-engine plant. Although today’s news is disappointing, it is not a surprise. “Over the past several months, my team and I have had...

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CONTACT: Paul DeLuca, 608-262-1304, pmdeluca@wisc.edu; Kim Moreland, 608-262-3822, kmorelan@rsp.wisc.edu MADISON - The University of Wisconsin-Madison's nearly $840 million research portfolio, one of the top three in the country, will become even larger as federal agencies begin to dole out new stimulus grants. Already, 90 awards totaling more than $26.5 million have been made to UW-Madison faculty under the American Recovery and...