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By Patrick Fitzgerald WisBusiness.com AirTran Holdings CEO Joe Leonard, the featured guest at Wednesday’s Milwaukee Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon, said he believes his company is in a unique position to make an imminent buyout of Midwest Airlines. “We have demonstrated by keeping our costs low that we have a business model that can go against...

By Brian Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – As expected, the American Transmission Co. (ATC) today announced that a route following the Beltline was one of its two choices for a new 345-kilovolt power line running across Dane County. The second one follows a southerly path running through mostly rural land. A third, central course through the Town of...

'Breathe Easier' campaign to promote respiratory wellness stresses whole-home air cleaning to tackle invisible air contaminants and indoor allergens MADISON, Wis., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Aprilaire, a leader in the indoor air comfort industry for over 60 years, is pleased to announce a cutting edge wellness-oriented program to educate homeowners on the benefits of whole-home air cleaning to reduce...

BURLINGTON, Vt., and EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TenderCare International, Inc. ("TenderCare") and Seventh Generation, Inc. ("Seventh Generation") have entered into a settlement agreement resolving a dispute regarding each party's marketing and promotion of their respective disposable diaper products. Although the specific terms of the agreement are confidential, neither party acknowledged any wrongdoing or liability. Both companies...

GREEN BAY, Wis., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tufco Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TFCO) today announced that as of July 20, 2007, its employees had worked two million consecutive hours without a lost time injury at its Green Bay facility. Lou LeCalsey, Tufco's President and CEO, commented, "We have worked hard to institutionalize a culture of Safety consciousness that is pervasive at our...

MOSINEE, Wis., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- WAUSAU, the industry leader in distributed payments and remittance processing solutions, announced that San Mateo, California-based Con-way Inc., a $4.2 billion market leader in freight transportation and logistics services, has selected WAUSAU as its remittance solutions provider. Con-way is using WAUSAU's ImageRPS solution to perform Image Exchange with two financial institutions and has taken...

Transmission line destroyed during February 2007 storms, rebuild completed in less than five months CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL), an Alliant Energy company (NYSE:LNT) concluded rebuild work and re-energized a 20 mile stretch of 345 kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Poweshiek County last week. The transmission line, which serves IPL customers...

MANITOWOC, Wis., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Manitowoc Company (NYSE:MTW) today announced that it has completed the previously announced redemption of its 10.5% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012. The call premium paid to note holders was 105.25% of the principal amount of the notes. The total cash paid was $129 million which included the call price, accrued and unpaid...

Project to create 65 jobs MADISON—Governor Jim Doyle today announced $500,000 for the city of West Bend to help redevelop a four-acre brownfield site as a new office complex – a project expected to create 65 new jobs for the area.   “Cleaning up brownfields is about more than just renewing damaged or vacant land,” Governor Doyle said. “It’s about renewing...