WisBusiness

PosiPair, an internet start-up from Wisconsin journalist Sarah Manski, and local attorney Ben Manski, announced today a website launch. The website introduces PosiPair, a new online retail and networking platform that connects green businesses, shoppers, and civil society in the growing Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability market. Until PosiPair's services go live later this year, this introductory website informs...

MADISON, Wis. – Feb. 2, 2009 – Knupp & Watson, a strategic communications agency offering advertising, marketing, public relations and new media, is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Bass to its staff as associate creative director. Mike’s work has been featured in Luerzer’s International Archive, Print, Graphis and Communication Arts magazines. His awards include National Addys for an...

Lanie Wasserman of Milwaukee’s Legacy Bank and United Way to Open IFF’s New Wisconsin Office Milwaukee, WI – As IFF prepares to open its first-ever Wisconsin office, the Midwest’s largest nonprofit facilities lender turns to Milwaukee nonprofit and lending expert Lanie Wasserman to fill the position of Director of Wisconsin Operations. Spearheading IFF’s growing role in Wisconsin’s nonprofit lending market, Ms....

CONTACT: James Beal, 608-263-0611, jbeal@engr.wisc.edu; Alicia Jackson, 608-265-2899, ajackson@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - In 1995, the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering debuted the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, a competition that provides university undergraduates the tools and resources to develop an original, patentable invention or process. Named for its benefactor, UW-Madison chemical engineering alumnus and inventor Richard J. Schoofs, the competition since...

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...