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Contact: Kristin Skoug, Marketing Manager, 608-824-2554 kristin.skoug@avidratings.com MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lakewood Homes of Hoffman Estates, Illinois switches from Woodland & O’Brien Associates to AVID Ratings™ Co. of Madison, Wisconsin for customer loyalty management services. By allowing AVID Ratings to be their customer loyalty provider, Lakewood Homes now has the power to uncover their homebuyer’s recent purchasing and home building experience. Detailed...

Media Contact Information: Don Crowther don@giftbasketsdeluxe.com Phone: 262-639-2270 A stark reversal of a 3-year trend, company president says RACINE, Wis., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In the ongoing battle over whether it's better to use the term "Christmas" or "holidays," "holidays" came out the big winner in 2007. In its fourth annual survey, GiftBasketsDeluxe.com (http://www.giftbasketsdeluxe.com/), a major gift basket company, today announced...

CONTACT: Haven Bourque of Straus Communications +1-415-777-1170, ext 303, Haven@StrausCom.com, for Egg Innovations PORT WASHINGTON, Wis., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Egg Innovations, pioneer of the rapidly expanding cage-free egg market, has been named as a major supplier of cage-free eggs to Compass Group. Compass announced today a landmark policy to implement cage-free shell eggs in its 7,500 units nationally, which...

For More Information Contact: Andy Kurth 608-824-0043 Weed Man of the greater Madison area recently received the “Award of Excellence” at the 2007 International Weed Man Conference in Las Vegas. This award goes to the franchise that exemplifies the highest standards of customer service and value. There are currently more than 200 Weed Man franchises operating in the...

CONTACT: Elaine Seitz, (608) 262-5539, seitze@education.wisc.edu MADISON - Teachers seeking to rejuvenate their history curriculum and reinvigorate student learning within a research-based, standards-linked critical-thinking framework will want to register for the seventh annual Wisconsin Treasures workshop, "Thinking Like a Historian," at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Workshop attendees will be introduced to this methodology and the new accompanying publication, "Thinking...

Contact: Eileen La Susa lasusa@mcw.edu 414 456-4746, MCW Office of Public Affairs Brookfield resident William J. Stekiel, Ph.D., professor of physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, was honored at the School’s 2007 convocation for 50 years of faculty service. Medical College Dean and Executive Vice President Michael J. Dunn, M.D., praised Dr. Stekiel as “an outstanding scientist...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, 608/267-9661 or Susan Noble, Executive Director Vernon Economic Development Association 608-637-5396 or snoble@veda-wi.org MADISON - Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Toman Tool Corporation, Viroqua has been awarded $5,000 from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) through the Business Employees’ Skills Training (BEST) program to provide training in Lean Manufacturing and Cellular Flow through the Northwest Wisconsin...

Contact: The Marcus Corporation Investors: Douglas A. Neis, (414) 905-1100 or Marcus Theatres Media: Carlo W. Petrick, (414) 905-1505 Will be Marcus Theatres’ eleventh UltraScreen auditorium MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marcus Theatres Corporation, a division of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE:MCS), today announced that its new 70-foot-wide UltraScreen® at the Pickerington Cinema, 1776 Hill Road North, will open December 21, with midnight showings...

CONTACT: John Schaffer, (608) 263-1900 MADISON - Glen A. Skillrud and Winifred Skillrud of San Antonio, Texas, have made gifts to establish what are being called the two best undergraduate scholarships in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. The Glen and Wendy Skillrud Music Scholarships will be awarded to an undergraduate soprano and a pianist starting in...

Contact: University Communications Phone: (608) 262-3571 MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders have high praise for the gift of $175 million from John and Tashia Morgridge, which will support need-based financial aid for thousands of talented prospective students in Wisconsin. - From UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley: "The gift announced today from John and Tashia Morgridge is nothing short of magnificent. Supporting...

GM commends the Congress and President for passage of an energy bill. The new fuel economy standards within the bill set a tough, national target that GM will strive to meet. We will focus our engineering and technical resources to attain these standards and we remain hard at work applying the innovation and developing the advanced technologies...

For more information, contact: Mark Osten Director of Business Development, WindConnect® Phone: 608/662-5487 Email: mark.osten@alliantenergyepc.com First utility-scale wind farm in Indiana to be completed in May Madison, Wisconsin – 12.18.2007 – Alliant Energy WindConnect® has been awarded the balance of plant engineering and construction work for the Benton County Wind Farm, the first utility-scale wind farm in Indiana. WindConnect began...

Contact: University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042 After years of planning by students and administrators, months of construction and closed facilities and weeks of moving out then back in, the newly remodeled Dreyfus University Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will re-open on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, followed by six weeks of television-themed festivities. All of the Dreyfus University...

Contacts: Media: Richard Secor 262/656-5561 or Investors: Marty Ellen 262/656-6462 Jack D. Michaels to Remain Chairman KENOSHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Snap-on Incorporated (NYSE: SNA), a leading global innovator, manufacturer and marketer of tools, diagnostics and equipment solutions for professional users today announced, consistent with its succession plans, that Nicholas T. Pinchuk, currently president and chief operating officer, has been elected president...