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By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Peter Beitzel, a Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce vice president, has been on more than half a dozen trade missions to Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. He’s now packing his bags for a similar trip. He’ll be leaving Friday, accompanying Gov. Jim Doyle and more than 70 other state officials and business...

City of Raleigh and lighting manufacturer move LED City forward STURTEVANT, Wis., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- As the dog days of summer continue and heat waves blanket the country, the City of Raleigh, N.C. knows one way to reduce energy usage is through high-efficiency lighting. Raleigh signed an order with Wisconsin-based Beta LED for over 500 high-efficiency LED luminaires...

MILWAUKEE and PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE:MTG) and Radian Group Inc. (NYSE:RDN) jointly announced today that they have entered into an agreement that terminates their pending merger. The companies cited as the rationale for doing so their mutual agreement that current market conditions have made combining the companies significantly more challenging. Both MGIC and Radian...

Provides life-changing opportunities for disabled artisans in Peru MIDDLETON, Wis., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Meet Marlene. At age 50, she has only recently begun earning a regular paycheck and the sense of independence and self-worth that comes with it. An acute heart condition kept her from finding meaningful work in her native Peru where, like many countries in the...

Fall 2007 Collection Designed for the Socially Conscious Consumer MIDDLETON, Wis., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, the concepts of organic and fair trade have come together in the mainstream apparel market to satisfy the rapidly-growing group of socially conscious customers looking for more responsible buying choices. Fair Indigo, the pioneering fair trade apparel and accessories company,...

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- MinuteClinic (http://www.minuteclinic.com/), the pioneer and largest provider of retail health care in the United States, announced that it has become a participating provider with Milwaukee-based Assurant Health (http://www.assuranthealth.com/), a national provider of individual medical, small group and specialty health insurance products. When visiting a MinuteClinic health care center, members enrolled with Assurant Health will receive...

FREDONIA, Wis., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students across Wisconsin are saying goodbye to the dog days of summer today. But for some, the new school year starts no further than their home computer chairs. Thanks to an innovative online curriculum developed by K12 Inc., students of the Wisconsin Virtual Academy (WIVA) and Honors High Online of Wisconsin, schools of...

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