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The Hamilton Consulting Group today announced that Henry Sanders Jr. will join the firm to focus on its new bioscience and technology services partnership. The new venture, a partnership with nationally-recognized GSP Consulting called hamilton.gsp, provides a range of services that will maximize public-sector funding opportunities, craft and advocate for technology-related public policy and develop groundbreaking economic development efforts. Mr. Sanders also will provide legislative...

Event to include forums on venture funding, pharmaceutical collaborations MADISON, Wis., Nov. 29, 2006—The Wisconsin Biotechnology & Medical Device Association, the voice of the state’s growing bioscience industry, today announced plans for its annual meeting and celebration being held on Monday, Dec. 4 on the Promega Corp. campus in Fitchburg, Wis. In addition to conducting its annual business meeting,...

MADISON, Wis. - Renovar Inc., an early-stage company focused on the development of kidney disease diagnostics, today announced that it has closed a successful round of financing that totals $1.22 million. This financing round, Renovar’s second, brings the total capital raised by the company to $3.2 million. The proceeds will be used to support the company’s efforts to secure FDA clearance...

Governor Jim Doyle today announced today that Wisconsin's dairy entrepreneurs have invested more than $500 million to modernize and expand their operations thanks to the dairy investment tax credit signed into law by the Governor in April 2004. "Agriculture is our heritage, and it is also our future," Governor Doyle said.  "Agricultural entrepreneurs are boosting rural economies by significantly reinvesting...

Madison, Wis. (November 30, 2006) – Edgewood College will build a boardwalk and woodland path along the shoreline of Lake Wingra. The project will consist of an extension of the existing pier behind Mazzuchelli Hall on campus, which will join to a woodland path. A grant from the Madison Community Foundation makes the new nature walk possible, said Edgewood...

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Musicnotes, Inc. announced today it has sold its 2,000,000th sheet music download, approximately fifteen months after selling its 1,000,000th download. Download number two million was the popular Christmas song "My Grown Up Christmas List," written in 1990 by Linda Thompson Jenner and David Foster and performed by many artists including Amy Grant, Michael...

OSHKOSH, Wis., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Winnebago CountyWide Crime Stoppers and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced today a reward of up to $3,500 for information on a Nov. 14 burglary at Ron's Gun Shop in Black Wolf, Wisc. The burglary at the federal firearms licensee, located at 5441 US Highway 45 South in Black...

MUSKEGO, Wis., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Customer service and profit margins for the smaller guys are getting harder to manage but companies like RAS have figured out how to get over the make-break point. RAS's delivery volume from GE and Home Depot was growing at a rate of roughly 20% per year but the busier they got, the higher...

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Wawa, Inc., a leading convenience store retailer with more than 550 store locations in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, has recently partnered with Catalyst International, a certified SAP(R) services partner and global provider of supply chain execution (SCE) solutions, to implement a complete wireless data collection solution, utilizing SAPConsole(TM), across their entire...