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Three Wisconsin Investment Groups Combine Forces to Invest in Software Company PercipEnz  Technologies.   Clinical research received a boost on Friday as a syndicate of investors came together to put money into a Madison area software company.  PercipEnz Technologies, Inc. makes software that helps research centers manage all aspects of their clinical research operations – from regulatory compliance to financials...

Contact: CPM Marketing Group Inc. John Hallick 608-831-7880/800-332-2631, Ext. 221 marketing@cpm.com www.cpm.com MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CPM Marketing Group, Inc. a leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions for healthcare, has released a white paper on its Physician Database Marketing System. The document discusses the value of physician relationships, reviews current market challenges and offers CPM’s physician marketing database as a new solution to overcome obstacles...

Contact: GE Healthcare Arvind Gopalratnam 262-501-0777 Arvind.Gopalratnam@ge.com WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its new mobile mammography product that will improve access to breast cancer screening for millions of women around the world. The mobile Senographe® Essential is built on the company’s Senographe...

Contact: Pam Selker Rak MKTG Communication 412-221-4550 pam.rak@mktgcommunications.com for LoanSifter LITTLE CHUTE, Wis., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- LoanSifter (http://www.loansifter.com/) is pleased to announce the appointment of Claudio Aranguiz as Director of Financial Information. This newly formed role is in direct support of the company's product expansion with its new LoanSifter Prime & Alt-A search engine, the first search engine that allows brokers and correspondents...

Contact: Jill Swartz of Triple Net Properties, LLC 714-667-8252, ext. 251 jswartz@1031nnn.com SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Chief Investment Officer Jeff Hanson announced today that Triple Net Properties, LLC has acquired Riverwood Place on behalf of tenant-in-common investors. The acquisition closed on August 17, 2007. Riverwood Place consists of two Class A office buildings in the Milwaukee suburb of Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Situated...

Contact: Debra Lacey of Johnson Controls 734-254-5735 MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A fleet of advanced, Dodge Sprinter plug-in hybrid delivery vans will be operating within the United States, powered by Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries developed by Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions (JCS). The test fleet is helping to usher in a new age of extremely fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly, urban transportation. "Advances in...

Contact: Biotechnology Industry Organization Tracy Krughoff Director, Events Communications 202-312-9274 Direct 202-488-6304 Fax tkrughoff@bio.org www.bio.org CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO) announces speakers, presenting companies and involvement planned for the BIO Mid-America VentureForum Sept. 24-26, 2007 in Milwaukee, Wis. “The Illinois biotech industry is maturing rapidly, and we are proud to participate in this important conference to facilitate and encourage partnering and financing opportunities to biotech...

Contact: Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Media Relations: Mary Cohn, 615-986-5886 or Investor Relations: Becky Barckley/Mike Kinney, 615-986-5600 NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) (NYSE:LPX) today announced that it will shut down operations at its oriented strand board (OSB) mill in Silsbee, Texas, for an indefinite period of time effective Aug. 22. The mill has an annual production capacity of 350 million square feet and employs 147 people. “The curtailment...

By Gregg Hoffmann WisBusiness.com VIROQUA - Gov. Jim Doyle toured the flood- devastated counties of Crawford, Richland and Vernon Monday and promised state help. In Crawford County, Doyle examined a partially collapsed road in Soldiers Grove and Gays Mills' evacuated downtown. More than 200 homes were flooded in the two towns. Earlier in the day, the governor toured...

By Patrick Fitzgerald WisBusiness.com The past few years haven’t gone particularly well for the Milwaukee Public Museum. However, with the late June announcement that the institution had secured the world-famous “Body Worlds” exhibit, museum officials are optimistic that the coming attraction could put the troubled institution back into calmer financial seas. Ellen Burmeister, Director of Marketing and Communications at...