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MADISON, Wis., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE:LNT) announced today quarterly dividends on common stock were declared by the Board of Directors. The common stock dividend is $.2875 per share payable November 15, 2006, to shareowners of record on October 31, 2006. Dividends on common stock have been paid for 244 consecutive quarters since 1946. Alliant Energy is an energy-services...

Outerwear Headquarters(TM) is now easier to shop with a new Outerwear Finder(TM) and exclusive temperature ratings DODGEVILLE, Wis., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to finding the perfect winter coat, the 2006 Lands' End Outerwear survey confirms that women seek warmth first, then style. Lands' End offers the best of both, along with coordinating accessories to build an outerwear...

MANITOWOC, Wis., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Manitowoc Company (NYSE:MTW) today announced that Timothy J. Kraus, president of Manitowoc Foodservice Group and senior vice president of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., has advised the company of his intention to retire from the company, effective December 31, 2006. The company will immediately begin a process of evaluating internal and external candidates...

Contact: David Lussier, Secretary-Treasurer AFM Local 8 Telephone 414-332-5000 available October 13 until 5:00PM; 24 hour voice mail Milwaukee, WI (October 12, 2006) – The 46 orchestra musicians employed by the Milwaukee Ballet have voted to reject the company’s wage proposal for the 2006/2007 season, which is...

CONTACT: Stephen R. Carpenter, (608) 262-8690, srcarpen@wisc.edu MADISON - The pressing issues of an increasingly strained global environment require a broad societal response - including the systematic assignment of monetary value to the services nature provides such as water purification and climate regulation, according to an assessment of the findings of a study of the health of the world's ecosystems. Summarizing...

Madison, WI - October 13, 2006 - Power Plus!, a California-based supplier of temporary power, completed a partial acquisition of Verona-based JT Packard & Associates, Inc. this week. JT Packard, which offers service for all brands and types of network-critical power equipment, such as uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, batteries, DC plants, generators, and HVAC, has expanded exponentially...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MONROE – In Ravinder Minhas’ hometown of Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta, some folks like to call him the “beer baron.” Minhas, 24, laughs at the description. But he doesn’t deny that he has sold more than 300 million cans of the brew in his short career as a beer distributor. Most of it...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com WAUKESHA – Wisconsin’s 300-plus bioscience companies know well the need to keep discoveries bubbling out of their labs. So they embraced – sometimes with loud bursts of laughter – a speech by a witty British professor who has been knighted for his innovative work to adapt education to the 21st Century. “Creativity is as important to...