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CONCORDVILLE, Pa., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Clement Publishing Group is streamlining for its future in business books summaries. On February 1, the family-owned group announced the sale of its safety and employee communications unit, Clement Communications, Incorporated, to the Brady Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a world leader in identification solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070205/PHM010LOGO ) The...

Madison – On behalf of Governor Jim Doyle, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman will present the 2006 Governor’s Wisconsin Forward Awards Wednesday, February 7. Fourteen organizations will be recognized, four of them receiving the highest honor, the Governor’s Award of Excellence, during the ceremony, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Overture Center for the Arts. As a...

MADISON - Almost 600 alumni and friends have generated nearly $11 million indonations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Real Estate, which willbe renamed in honor of the late James A. Graaskamp, a legendary figure in realestate education. The program is more than halfway toward its goal of raising $20 million over fiveyears to maintain Wisconsin as a...

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Reaffirming its commitment to providing customers great value and an unparalleled travel experience, Midwest Airlines (AMEX:MEH) is offering sale fares for travel through May 17, 2007. Purchase Tuesday, Feb. 6 through midnight Central time Friday, Feb. 9 and at least seven days in advance of travel. Sale fares are available to and from many cities...

RACINE, Wis., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Trying to spend more quality time as a family? The car might just be the perfect place to do just that given the results of the new SC Johnson Family Taxi Survey*. The survey revealed 90 percent of parents and guardians report spending up to 20 hours per week in their car with their...

Below is an excerpt from the most recent edition of WisBusiness Tuesday Trends, a WisBusiness product previously available only to paid subscribers. This weekly look at the state of Wisconsin business is now available for free to anyone who signs up for the Tuesday Trends mailing list. To get the full version of Tuesday Trends in your inbox every week,...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com If Orlando-based AirTran Holdings is successful in its hostile takeover bid for Midwest Airlines, the Florida company should be able to hang on to a property tax break worth about $2 million - as long as it continues to meet the required number of flights from Mitchell International Airport. Midwest had a net income of $5.4 million...

By Will Tracy WisBusiness Nearly 40 residents of Waunakee, Westport and other Dane County communities in the path of high-voltage transmission lines leveled their opposition to the American Tranmission Company’s DeForest to Westport routes at a public hearing this weekend Public Service Commission Headquarters in Madison. Only one registrant, Joseph Krzos, a former utility accountant, voiced his approval for either route...

Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Juneau County will receive a $27,500 grant to help plan and implement the Entrepreneurial Business Plan for Sheltered Work Centers developed under a previous CDBG- Planning grant to Monroe County.   ”Wisconsin’s economy relies not just on the hard work of some people, but all people in this state,” Governor Doyle said.  “We need to...

MADISON, Wis., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO) , a leader in automated rich media communications technology, today announced that Wells' Dairy, the largest family-owned and managed dairy processor in the United States, has selected Sonic Foundry's award-winning Mediasite(R) platform to capture its corporate meetings and training sessions. Mediasite is a transformational communications medium used to deliver critical...