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Madison Development Corporation (MDC) has closed on two recent loans to promising Madison technology companies. MDC, a local non-profit development company helping hard to finance small businesses with loans, started a Venture Debt Fund to help technology businesses stretch scarce local venture capital dollars. Since starting the Fund earlier this year, MDC has made 6 loans, totaling over $1 million...

CHICAGO - - A Sheboygan Falls plastics company took center stage during a ceremony last night during the National Plastics Exposition (NPE 2006) in Chicago when one of its top executives was inducted into The Plastics Hall of Fame. Peter F. Bemis, cofounder, executive vice president and secretary of Bemis Manufacturing Company, and president of its Contract Group, was...

CONTACT: Susan Bach, Media Coordinator PHONE: 414- 847- 6085 FAX: 414-302- 0355 E-MAIL: sbach@wisconsin.bbb.org Milwaukee, Wis. – The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau has launched a new web site. The address, http://www.wisconsin.bbb.org, is still the same, but the site has a new look, contains more information and is easier to navigate. Consumers can get instant access to reliability reports on about...

Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Madison partner David G. Walsh has been unanimously re-elected president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents for a second consecutive term. “We are proud of David's commitment to leading Wisconsin's higher education system through the new challenges it will face this year,” said Ralf Boer, chairman and CEO of...