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By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com TPG Capital out of Fort Worth, Texas, is known as the largest private equity player in the airline industry. It owns Ryanair, one Europe's biggest fliers, and has bought and sold Continental and America West airlines. Just this spring, it bid $4.5 billion for Iberia, a Spanish airline. ...

EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2007--Northwest Airlines(NYSE:NWA) today confirmed it is a passive investor in the acquisitionentity that TPG Capital, L.P. (TPG) has created to pursue anacquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Midwest Air Group,Inc. at $16 per share. The bid submitted by TPG is subject to thesatisfaction of certain conditions.   Milwaukee-based Midwest Air Group operates Midwest Airlines...

Contact: Oshkosh Truck Corporation Financial: Patrick Davidson Vice President, Investor Relations 920.966.5939 or Media: Ann Stawski Vice President, Marketing Communications 920.966.5959 OSHKOSH, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oshkosh Truck Corporation announced today that Team Oshkosh’s TerraMax™ unmanned ground vehicle received an invitation from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete in the Urban Challenge National Qualification Event (NQE) Oct. 26 – 31, 2007. The Oshkosh TerraMax is a...

Contact: AVISTA Services AVISTA@esterline.com 603-348-8815 PLATTEVILLE, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVISTA Incorporated®, an Esterline Technologies Corporation company (NYSE:ESL), has been appraised at Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 5, the highest level in process quality assessment. The CMMI model is the internationally recognized standard for measuring the maturity of an organization’s software engineering processes. With this rating, AVISTA leads the critical systems software services market...

Contact: James H. Woodward, Jr. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Joy Global Inc. 414-319-8507 or Analyst Contact George Zagoudis of Financial Relations Board 312-640-6663 for Joy Global Inc. MILWAUKEE, Aug 13, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Joy Global Inc. (Nasdaq: JOYG) announced today that it will release third quarter earnings results prior to the opening of business on August 29, 2007. A...

Contact: Virgil Schlorke Supervisor - Regional Generation 608-565-7961 Wisconsin Public Service Customer Service 800-450-7260 Necedah, WI – Workers from Wisconsin River Power Company (WRPCO), recently completed work improving the area near the shelters at Petenwell Veterans' Park to make them more accessible for wheelchair-bound people. WRPCO volunteered to do the work, which was not required by its recreational plan for Petenwell, after...