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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....

Wausau, WI – March x, 2007- Ken Hofmaster, President and COO of SafeAssured ID, www.safeassured-id.com, is pleased to announce the addition of three new sales agents:  Tim Hofer of Warsaw, Indiana, Bonnie Lee of Racine, Wisconsin, and Ron Stark of Alta Loma, California.   Ken states: “I welcome Tim, Bonnie, and Ron to our SafeAssured team as they join us...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Business and utility groups gave a mixed response today to Gov. Jim Doyle’s announcement of new steps that he hopes will turn Wisconsin into the nation’s leader in energy independence and the fight against global warming. Those measures include creating a state Office of Energy Independence and a separate task force of business, government,...

By Bryan Manke WisBusiness.com MADISON – Call it organized creativity or a focus group on steroids. But however you describe BrainReactions, there’s no denying the idea is gaining attention. Founded by UW-Madison graduate Anand Chhatpar, BrainReactions is a company that works closely with its clients to innovate new products and to test-market new concepts by conducting brainstorming sessions. In...

MILWAUKEE, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Midwest Air Group, Inc. (AMEX:MEH) , parent company of Midwest Airlines, today responded to requests from two affiliates of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AAI) for the shareholder list for Midwest's 2007 annual meeting. In accordance with Wisconsin law, Midwest will make the list of shareholders entitled to notice of the annual meeting available for inspection by...

MILWAUKEE, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Who: Allen Leverett - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE:WEC) What: 2007 Midwest Utilities Seminar Leverett...

MADISON, Wis., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Representatives from Fireside Hearth & Home announced today that Marian Timmerman and Bill McCarthy of Fitchburg, Wisconsin are the winners of Wisconsin's first Fireside Hearth & Home "Fireplace Facelift" contest. Timmerman and McCarthy will receive a $5000 fireplace and hearth makeover before the end of May, 2007. "I'm so appreciative of the people at...

ORLANDO, Fla., April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AAI) , the parent of AirTran Airways, today requested a list of shareholders from Midwest Air Group, Inc. (AMEX:MEH) in a letter to Midwest's management. Under Wisconsin law, shareholders have a right to be granted access to the company's shareholder list and make duplicates as they see fit after the...

MILWAUKEE, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The winners of this year's sixth annual Igniting Creative Energy Challenge showed that a young generation is ready to fight to save our natural resources. The Challenge is an educational competition sponsored and funded through a grant by Johnson Controls, Inc., with additional support from Philips Lighting Company and the United States Energy Association...