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InterOcean Coffee Company LLC to Open 122 New Restaurants in Milwaukee and Phoenix CANTON, Mass., April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Dunkin' Donuts, the world's largest coffee and bakery quick-service restaurant chain, announced today the signing of a significant multi-unit store development agreement with InterOcean Coffee Company LLC for the development of 122 restaurants -- 50 in Milwaukee and 72...

Highly Visible Backstretch Naming Rights for Legendary Oval To Go Daddy     MILWAUKEE, Wis. (April 2, 2008) – The world’s oldest active speedway, The Milwaukee Mile, announced an agreement today with Go Daddy Group Inc., the world’s largest domain name registrar, making GoDaddy.com an official partner of America’s Legendary Oval.   The Milwaukee Mile will provide Go Daddy highly-visible positioning in front of...

Madison Agency Wins One Gold and Two Silvers Before Heading to Nationals MADISON, Wis. – April 1, 2008 – Knupp & Watson, a Madison-based advertising, marketing and public relations agency, was awarded a Gold ADDY award and two Silver ADDY awards at the 8th District regional competition. The Gold ADDY-winning submittal will now be entered in the national ADDY competition....

SUN PRAIRIE, WIS., April 2 -- Customers of Wisconsin Public Power Inc.’s member utilities achieved energy savings of more than 25,000 megawatt-hours of electricity and more than 39,000 therms of natural gas in 2007, thanks to cost-effective energy efficiency programs by WPPI and its members.   “WPPI and its members believe that the utility of the future should be dedicated to...

What can - and should - public officials, corporate leaders, farmers, small-business owners, community organizers, and the rest of us do about climate change in Wisconsin?Hundreds of people from across the state are expected to convene at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center here on Wednesday, April 16, to address that question.The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies' second annual...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Burnett County Judge Michael Gableman, strongly backed by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, is the first person to knock off a sitting justice in more than four decades. Gableman on Tuesday defeated Justice Louis Butler, who was appointed by Gov. Jim Doyle. For more election coverage, go to the WisPolitics Election Blog: http://blogs.wispolitics.com/election/index.html -- Researchers, investors and ethanol...

WisBusiness.com Researchers, investors and ethanol producers, plus representatives of paper and forest products companies should be well represented at a biofuels conference set for April 16-17 on the UW-Stevens Point campus. Tom Still, whose Wisconsin Technology Council is co-sponsoring the event, said it will focus on the state’s “fast-emerging potential “as a center for energy production from cellulose, waste...