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(ATLANTA and JANESVILLE, Wis. – MARCH 1, 2007) – Simmons Bedding Company presented its Janesville, Wis., manufacturing facility with the 2006 Tony Saliture Award for Operational Excellence, making the facility the only Simmons plant to win the award three times.  The annual award recognizes a Simmons plant with superior performance in the areas of safety, quality, customer service, cost...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Officials at Embedded Computing (formerly Artesyn Technologies) told 45 of its 185 Madison employees that they will lose their jobs starting in July when the company transfers all of its circuit board production for communications systems to a plant in the Philippines. David Baldridge, a spokesman for Embedded Computing in St. Louis, said...

Midwest Air Group Inc. CEO Timothy Hoeksema sent a letter today to "set the record straight" about AirTran Holdings Inc.'s hostile takeover bid for the company. Hoeksema said his Oak Creek-based firm, which is the parent company of Midwest Airlines, has been the victim of "many false and misleading claims made by AirTran." Hoeksema criticized AirTran's discount airline business model....

(Milwaukee, WI) WUWM 89.7 FM – Milwaukee Public Radio announced it is replacing its current logo. As one of the first steps in launching a marketing initiative to update and enhance its branding, the radio station will transition the new logo to all media over the next few months.   The innovative new logo defines WUWM – Milwaukee Public Radio as...

MADISON - Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.The unsettling trend is confined to the Atlantic, however, and does not hold up in any of the world's other oceans, researchers have also found.Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and...

MADISON – The Living Lake’s Heritage, Inc. and Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation announce a double-header Open House on Thursday, March 1 from 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM. Schools, businesses, communities, organizations and individuals are participating in Entrepreneurship Week USA (E-ship Week USA) activities listed on a national website www.entrepreneurshipweekusa.com. The first-ever coordinated national effort to promote the...

MADISON - Antonio Riley, the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), will award WHEDA’s top performing housing lenders and announce a new advertising campaign during a luncheon on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn West in Madison.   WHEDA is beginning a new ad campaign in select, targeted cities to help...