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MADISON - Jacqueline A. DeWalt has been named director of the University ofWisconsin-Madison Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence(PEOPLE) in the School of Education, where she has been assistant director since2005. PEOPLE is a college preparatory program serving more than 1,100 minority andlow-income students attending partner Wisconsin public schools from second gradethrough the undergraduate level.DeWalt will oversee year-round...

RACINE, Wis., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- SC Johnson has again been named by Hispanic Magazine as one of the 100 companies that offer the greatest opportunities for Hispanic Americans in the United States. For the seventh consecutive year, SC Johnson has appeared on Hispanic Magazine's Corporate 100 list, which highlights companies that offer exceptional opportunities for Hispanics in employee-recruitment...

By Brian E. Clark and David Wise WisBusiness.com To the surprise of few, Midwest Air Group Inc. board today turned down an AirTran Holdings offer of $13.25 a share and unanimously recommended that its shareholders also reject the bid. Tim Hoeksema, Midwest’s chairman and president, said AirTran’s latest offer continues to undervalue Midwest and that selling to Florida-based AirTran would be...

  Midwest Air Group Board Rejects AirTran Offer as Inadequate and Opportunistic; Reiterates Strength of Its Strategic Plan MILWAUKEE, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The board of directors of Midwest Air Group, Inc. (AMEX:MEH) , parent company of Midwest Airlines, today announced it has unanimously recommended that Midwest's shareholders reject AirTran Holdings, Inc.'s (NYSE:AAI) unsolicited offer to acquire all outstanding shares...

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Midwest Air Group, Inc. (AMEX:MEH) today reported fourth quarter and full-year results for its Midwest Airlines and Skyway Airlines (dba Midwest Connect) operations. "Our performance was very strong, resulting in our third consecutive quarterly profit and continuing the turnaround for Midwest Air Group," said Timothy E. Hoeksema, chairman and chief executive officer. "Traffic and revenue...

  ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), the parent company of AirTran Airways, announced today that it is extremely disappointed that Midwest has again unilaterally rejected AirTran's offer to combine the two airlines, without even having the benefit of holding direct talks with AirTran to explore the strategic and financial logic of such a merger. "Despite...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Midwest Air Group’s board will most likely have a negative response tomorrow to the recent $13.25 per share offer from Florida-based AirTran Holdings, an analyst from Morningstar Inc. said today. But Brian Nelson, who works for the Chicago-based provider of independent investment research, said he believes AirTran will ultimately be successful in its...