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CONTACT: Chris Lato Avicom Marketing Communications 262.547.8000 chris.lato@avicomdirect.com New DDN subsidiary offers communications services for life science businesses MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. – Feb. 2, 2009 – Adding to its robust array of business support services for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies, DDN announced the launch of DDN Medical Affairs - a subsidiary business with a leadership team boasting decades of collective...

Contacts: Joshua Wescott, Office of the County Executive (608) 267-8823 or cell (608) 669-5606 The Institutional Food Market Coalition (IFM), a project of Dane County, is launching a new website to help connect large volume institutional buyers with locally grown WI fruit and produce, and to help create new market opportunities for Dane County and regional producers. “During...

January foreclosures second highest on record Please direct inquiries to: Phil Crawford, 414-915-3833 MADISON, WI – ForeclosureAlarm.com, the only real-time notification system of new foreclosure filings in the state of Wisconsin, today announced Wisconsin foreclosure numbers for January of 2009. According to the report, foreclosures in January were the second highest on record for the state, far outpacing...

MILWAUKEE – To generate more four-year university engineering degrees in Southeastern Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) and the Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) have expanded on their existing academic articulation agreements to create two new credit-transfer programs for electrical and mechanical engineering. Through one program, WCTC students who have successfully completed the two-year Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree...

CONTACT: Carrie Skogsberg PR Etc. (608) 239-0745 cskogsberg@pretc.net When: Tuesday, February 3 Registration begins at 7:45 a.m.; seminar runs from 8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Where: February 3 seminar: Sheraton Madison...

Contact: Bank Mutual Corporation Michael T. Crowley Jr. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer or Michael W. Dosland Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 414-354-1500 Bank Mutual Corporation (NASDAQ: BKMU) announced that its board of directors today approved an eighth stock repurchase program whereby the Company may repurchase up to 1.0 million shares of its common...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- TODAY at 11:45 A.M.: WisBusiness.com Luncheon featuring Kevin Conroy of Third Wave Technologies The event is open to the public, and the price for lunch is $19. Call the Madison Club to register at (608) 255-4861. The luncheon starts at 11:45 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m. -- EMD Chemicals of Madison announced it would be...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com The Governor’s Business Plan Contest has a new feature this year: a youth competition aimed at high schoolers with an entrepreneurial bent. Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council – which has hosted the competition for the past five years – said young people in Dane County can win money for coming up with...