WisBusiness

Media Contact: Scott Reigstad (608) 458-3145 Customers receive electric usage/cost data, energy efficiency tips and Cash-Back Reward information from Focus on Energy MADISON, WI – To help residential customers understand their average daily electric usage and cost and learn how to become more energy efficient, Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), an Alliant Energy company, will begin sending the first of...

CONTACT: Dian Land, 608-261-1034, dj.land@hosp.wisc.edu MADISON - The instruction manual for maintaining an efficient brain may soon include a section on synaptotagmin-IV (Syt-IV), a protein known to influence learning and memory, thanks to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. The study showed that Syt-IV keeps the strength of synapses - connections between nerve cells where communication occurs - within...

Contact: DanaVanDen Heuvel The MarketingSavant Group 888-989-7771 dana@marketingsavant.com Green Bay, WI -- Even in struggling economic times, small businesses’ entrepreneurial spirit continues to be a driving force in the American economy. A Green Bay, Wis.-based marketing consulting and training firm is reaching...

Watertown, Mass. -- The Cadmus Group, Inc., a leading energy and environmental consulting firm, has opened an office in Madison, Wisc., to better serve public-sector clients in the Great Lakes Region. The new office is located at 301 N.Broom St., Suite 201, and the telephone number 608-250-1920. “The Cadmus Group is pleased to open its new office in Wisconsin and...

Contact: Scott Pigeon, Director of Marketing Phone: 920-380-2175 Email: spigeon@hoffman.net APPLETON, Wis. – Hoffman LLC employee Bill Aubrey has earned his Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) accreditation. Aubrey became the firm’s third employee in the past two months to earn the prestigious designation from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the foremost authority on green buildings. A senior...

Contact: David J. Hall (202) 205-6697 WASHINGTON – Small businesses suffering financial hardship as a result of the slow economy may be eligible to receive temporary relief to keep their doors open and get their cash flow back on track through to a new loan program announced today by SBA Administrator Karen G. Mills. Beginning on June 15,...

ATLANTA – Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Wisconsin angel networks and funds posted a 28 percent increase in early stage investments in 2008, reaching more than $15 million invested in 53 deals. Recently released data showed that angel investing was down 26 percent nationally for the same year compared to 2007. “Wisconsin’s angel networks and funds are finding good...

Contact: Joshua Morby 414.791.9120 MILWAUKEE – Several of the recommendations to come out of Governor Doyle’s Global Warming Task Force last year have the potential to jump start Wisconsin’s economy, according to members of Wisconsin’s Bio Industry Alliance Bio Power Team. “The Governor’s Global Warming Task Force has laid out a plan that will help grow Wisconsin’s...

Contact: Jennifer Christianson, Marketing Manager, BioForward, jchristianson@bioforward.org, (608) 236-4693 ATLANTA, GA and MADISON, WI – Battelle, in cooperation with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and the Biotechnology Institute, released a report at the BIO International Convention analyzing bioscience education in middle and high schools across the United States. While the data indicates that the US is not measuring up...

CONTACT: Jody Bartnick (608) 271-9181 jody.bartnick@4-c.org Public Invited to May 21 Groundbreaking and Construction Launch Event Madison, WI – After losing its building to a devastating fire, 4-C (Community Coordinated Child Care, Inc.) will officially break ground and celebrate a construction launch on a 9,100 square-foot building located at 5 Odana Court in Madison on Thursday, May 21, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00...

For additional information, contact: Julie Cole jcole@quarles.com (414) 277-5212 MILWAUKEE, Wis. (May 19, 2009) ─ The national law firm of Quarles & Brady is pleased to announce that Matt Vogel and Ruhee Divgi have been selected as two of the first recipients of the 2009 Servant Manor Youth Empowerment Award. The award recognizes Vogel and Divgi for their exceptional work with youth...

For more information, contact: Sen. Dan Kapanke – 608-782-3975 La Crosse, WI – State Senator Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) met with Dubuque Mayor Roy Buol and City Administrator Michael Van Milligen on Friday to gather specific details on how the city recently obtained over 1,300 jobs with the opening of an IBM operation center. “IBM’s decision...

Madison — The board of directors of MGE Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGEE) today declared the regular quarterly dividend of $0.3617 per share on the outstanding shares of the company's common stock, payable June 15, 2009, to shareholders of record at the close of business June 1, 2009. MGE Energy has increased dividends annually for the past 33 years and has paid cash dividends...

Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 JEFFERSON – The Jefferson Police Department has joined the Wisconsin Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. “We are pleased to have you as a member of the Wisconsin ICAC Task Force and pledge our full support to you as we work together to make Wisconsin safer for...

Contact: Jill Zuckman Tel.: (202) 366-4570 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood today announced grants totaling $2.4 million for two Wisconsin airports under the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). “This Administration is committed to getting the U.S. economy...