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MILWAUKEE, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE:MTG) today reported a net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2007 of $1.47 billion, including certain items described below. This compares with net income of $121.5 million for the same quarter a year ago. Diluted loss per share was $18.17 for the quarter ending December 31, 2007, compared to...

Nationwide storage solutions provider, AME Vertical, selected Wildeck, Inc. for “Vendor of the Year” honors based on the company’s high product quality, service and customer response. Waukesha, WI – February 2007 - Wildeck, Inc., the largest manufacturer of mezzanines, material lifts, and safety guarding products in North America, has been named “Vendor of the Year” for 2007 by nationwide storage solutions provider, AME Vertical...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON -- Going into its second year, Thrive -- the eight-county south central Wisconsin economic development group formerly known as the Madison Region Economic Development Enterprise -- has “gotten its infrastructure built and is now dressed up and ready to go.” That’s the optimistic assessment from the John Biondi, Thrive’s new chairman. He took the reins of...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, a subsidiary of Integrys Energy Group, has filed a request with the state Public Service Commission to increase electric rates about 90 cents per month for typical residential customers due to what it said are "much higher than expected fuel costs" to generate or purchase electricity. "Our costs were significantly higher in...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – For a doctor, Craig Samitt has a rather bleak view of health care in the United States. “The industry is broken… and needs to be transformed,” said Samitt, who has been CEO of the 500-physician Dean Health System for nearly 18 months. His aim is to shake up the delivery of medicine while...

CHICAGO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Wednesday, February 20, at 10:30 a.m. CST, the executive management of Integrys Energy Group, Inc. (NYSE:TEG) , will host a conference call to review 2007 fourth quarter and full-year financial results, as well as prospects for 2008. The associated earnings release will be issued after market close on February 19. A packet of...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Weinbrenner Shoe Company Inc. of Merrill was among the award recipients when the Defense Logistics Agency honored 23 industry partners, customers and individuals Feb. 12 with its Business Alliance Awards. Weinbrenner received the Outstanding Readiness Support Award in the historically underutilized business (HUB) zone, small business category. The award recognizes large, small, small...

GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, a subsidiary of Integrys Energy Group (NYSE:TEG) , today filed a request with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to increase electric rates about 90 cents per month for typical residential customers due to much higher than expected fuel costs to generate or purchase electricity. "Our costs were significantly...

PEWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To avoid exposure to identity theft when registering to vote, use something other than your credit union account statement as proof of identification. That's the advice of the Wisconsin Credit Union League, the trade association in Pewaukee that represents 260 not-for-profit, member-owned financial institutions in the state. The League says that while using a...