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WORCESTER, Mass., April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:THG) , a leading super regional property and casualty company, today announced the launch of a new homeowners insurance product, Connections(TM) Home, in Indiana and Wisconsin. This announcement follows the launch of Connections Home in Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, New York, Ohio and Tennessee, where the product has increased...

MILWAUKEE, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- John Barth, chairman and CEO, Johnson Controls, Inc., has been selected by the Diversity Best Practices (DBP) and Business Women's Network (BWN) as a recipient of their 2007 Diversity Leadership Award. Barth was chosen for his deep commitment to diversity and its role in driving corporate performance. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030423/JCILOGO ) Barth's commitment to diversity has been...

CORNUCOPIA, Wis., April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Small-scale farmers, retailers, and consumers are outraged over a new federal regulation that will require all almonds grown in California to be sterilized with various "pasteurization" techniques. The rule, which the USDA quietly developed in response to outbreaks of Salmonella in 2001 and 2004, traced to raw almonds, mandates that all almonds undergo...

WHITEWATER –  Chancellor Martha Saunders has been appointed president of the University of Southern Mississippi, her alma mater. Chancellor Saunders will begin her new post about May 21. “The opportunity to return to my hometown in a leadership role is compelling.  I will assist in the rebuilding of a campus devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and will work to move...

I believe that the Court of Appeals order of acquittal recognized that this conviction was a terrible injustice.   Georgia Thompson is an innocent woman who was imprisoned for more than four months - just for doing her job.It is great for her that the Court of Appeals has taken this extraordinary action so that she does not spend one...

WHITEWATER ­ For any corporation, a change in software can be a hassle, butthen again, sometimes change is for the better.  From 9-11 a.m., Wednesday,April 11, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater MCS Business PartnershipConsortium will demonstrate just that at the Agile Development Symposium inthe McGraw Auditorium.Agile software development refers to the process of developing software is ashort amount of time....

Real estate pioneer James A. Graaskamp will be honored on April 25 and 26 when the Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is renamed in his memory.  Since 2005, almost 600 alumni and friends generated nearly $11 million in donations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Real Estate to rename the Center. This support provides...

MADISON, LA CROSSE - Governor Jim Doyle on Thursday announced the next steps in Wisconsin's effort to become the nation's leader in energy independence and fight global warming.  The initiatives are part of the Governor plan to achieve the goal of "25 by 25" - getting 25 percent of our electricity and 25 percent of our transportation fuels from...

Brillion, April 5, 2007 – Dan Ariens, the President of Ariens Company in Brillion and member of the executive committee of New North, Inc., was named today to the Governor’s Taskforce on Global Warming.  The Governor announced the creation of the taskforce at the Engineering School at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.   “Dan Ariens has been a great...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (April 6, 2007) – Wireless consumers across the country continue to experience a higher level of call quality, according to J.D. Power and Associates. According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Wireless Call Quality Performance StudySM, U.S. Cellular ranked highest overall in the North Central Region with fewer problems in initial connection, dropped or disconnected calls,...

Applied Tech, a leading IT solutions provider in Madison, is offering a complete IT Makeover worth over $20,000 for one Madison area business. The makeover includes hardware, software and six months of service and support provided by Applied Tech.  Applied Tech is partnering with Microsoft and HP to provide the winner with: HP ML 350 Server 4 Workstations HP Tape...

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--During the past 10 years, Great Wolf Lodge has helped build family fun traditions for over 6.5 million people staying at its resorts across North America. Since 1997 when the first Great Wolf Lodge opened its doors in the waterpark capital, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., eight additional resorts and two under construction now cover eight states and one...

GREEN BAY, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heartland Business Bank, a subsidiary of Heartland Financial USA, Inc., (NASDAQ:HTLF) announced that the company has been named the Coleman USDA Business and Industry (B&I) Lender of the Year for 2006. The award was announced by Robert Coleman, publisher of The Coleman Report and Coleman’s Rural Development Lender Weekly, newsletters that monitor USDA guaranteed lending programs....