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Solution enhances existing warehouse management system STOKENCHURCH, U.K. – RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimisation company, has boosted performance and cut operational costs at Oxford University Press (OUP), a major academic publishing house and the world’s largest university press. OUP collaborated with its workforce to implement RedPrairie’s workforce management solution in its UK warehouse in order to increase...

MILWAUKEE (February 25, 2009) – Field service management software vendor Metrix today announced that the company’s solution was highlighted in a recent AMR Research report, “ Field Service Landscape.” The report analyzed 15 field service software suites for overall functionality and usability. According to the research study, “Metrix has all the major pieces needed in a field service suite....

Contact: Joyce Griffin, Manager of Communications griffinj@equitablereserve.com (920) 722-1574 Mike Pierron has been hired as a Representative for Equitable Reserve Association in the Wisconsin Fox Cities area. Pierron brings with him over twenty-four years of experience in sales and marketing. Prior to joining Equitable Reserve, Pierron was Sales and Marketing Manager at Landmark Staffing Resources and...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MADISON - Donald L. Michaelson, the Don Lee Company, Inc., and the Tire & Auto Center LLC, all from Milltown, Polk County, have agreed to remove a pile of 5,000 tires and to pay $3,000 to settle state claims brought under Wisconsin's solid waste management laws. ...

For Immediate Release Contact: Betsy Rourke: 263-8111 -or- Julie Rothwell, 263-8127 (Milwaukee, February 25, 2009) – The Federal Emergency Management Association’s national board is allocating $24,973 to Ozaukee County’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program for 2009. The Ozaukee Emergency Food and Shelter Program Board (EFSP) manages and distributes the Congress-appropriated funds to help expand the capacity...

CONTACT: J. Michael Collins, 608-262-0369, jmcollins@wisc.edu MADISON - The way J. Michael Collins sees it, United States consumers aren't necessarily less informed about financial risk than consumers from other industrialized nations. What Americans do have, however, are an abundance of ways to screw up. Whether it's option-arm mortgages and credit-card teaser rates or simply taking on too big of a credit...

Contact: Liz Menzer (608) 663-5300, menzer@forwardaward.org Madison—Wisconsin Forward Award will host its annual Excellence at Work Conference Thursday and Friday, February 26 -27, 2009 at the American Family Conference Center in Madison. Conference keynote speakers include -Sister Mary Jean Ryan, president and chief executive officer of SSM Health Care in St. Louis,a leader in the health care quality movement. She has...

Contact: Joshua Morby (414) 791-9120 A recent report from Underwriters Laboratories supports the use of E15 (85% gasoline and 15% ethanol) in gasoline dispensers. Here are some facts: * Most pumps are currently certified to dispense E10 (90% gasoline and 10% ethanol). * The Underwriters study indicates that using E15 has no damaging effects...

CONTACT: Jim Beal, 608-263-0611, jbeal@engr.wisc.edu; Alicia Jackson, 608-265-2899, ajackson@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - A film crew representing a Japanese public broadcast station will be on the College of Engineering campus on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26-27, to interview participants from Innovation Day, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual invention competition. The crew from New York-based TopSpin Creative Corporation is developing a program for...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MADISON - Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen announced today that the state has reached an agreement with another one of the 36 pharmaceutical manufacturers charged with defrauding the Wisconsin Medicaid program. A Wisconsin Department of Justice law enforcement action pending in Dane County alleges that...

Contact: Kevin Reardon Owner & President Shakespeare Wealth Management, Inc. 262-814-1600 Kevin@shakespearewealthmanagement.com Brookfield, WI – President Obama recently signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. But how much tax relief will it actually provide for most Americans? Not much, says Kevin Reardon, CFP®, President of Shakespeare Wealth Management in Brookfield. “For openers, the bill is about two-thirds governmental spending and one-third...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board (WEEB), located at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is seeking proposals for a new Energy Education Resource Grant Program. This grant program is offered in cooperation with the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) and is funded by Focus on Energy. Funds are restricted to organizations (applicant’s school...

For more information, contact: Cheryl Van Tessier, Finesse Public Relations LLC (608) 467-4408, ctessier@finessepr.net Alexis Endicott, Summit Credit Union (608) 243-5000X4702, alexis.endicott@summitcreditunion.com MADISON, Wis. — If you were given $10… what would you do for someone else? Beginning March 25, Summit Credit Union hopes to find out the answer to that question. Through a program called ‘Pay It Forward,’...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news Women and Science Day will be held Friday, February 27, at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Almost 400 seventh and eighth grade girls from throughout Central and Northern Wisconsin will learn about careers in science and technology from campus and non-campus women professionals. The focus of the day is to expose the...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news A delegation from the Center for Environmental Education and Communication of the Environmental Protection Bureau of China will visit with natural resources and environmental education experts from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) on Wednesday, February 25. The Environmental Protection Bureau has similar responsibilities and jurisdictions as the U.S. Environmental Protection...