Jack Faris: A Simple Formula for Small-Business Growth
If there is one character trait that stands out among America's entrepreneurs, it is optimism. Starting a small business demands more than a desire to control one's destiny and a willingness to take risks, it calls for a positive outlook.
When the NFIB Small Business Economic Trends survey was tallied in December, the optimism index among small firms soared...
WisBusiness: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Oak Creek Appeal
January 5, 2005
To:
Hon. David T. Flanagan
Dane County Circuit Court
210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Madison, WI 53703-3344
Judith A. Coleman
Dane County Clerk of Courts
210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Madison, WI 53703-3341
Larry J. Martin
Owen Thomas Armstrong, Jr.
John A. Casey
Quarles & Brady LLP
411 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53202-4497
Thomas M. Devine
Hostak, Henzl & Bichler, S.C.
P.O. Box 516
Racine, WI 53401-0516
Peter L. Gardon
Raymond M....
Great Lakes Media Technology: SACD Improves CD Listening Experience
Contact:
Jon Mueller
Great Lakes Media Technology, Inc.
P: 262-512-0100
F: 262-512-0184
jmueller@glmt.com
www.glmt.com
(Mequon, WI – January 6, 2005) Great Lakes Media Technology has added manufacturing equipment at their facility capable of producing Hybrid Super Audio compact disc, also known as Hybrid SACD. SACD, designed by Sony and Philips, is a technology that offers the warmth of the analogue...
Air Wisconsin: Reports December Traffic
Contact: Kelly Lanpheer
(920) 749-7638klanpheer@airwis.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 6, 2005
APPLETON, WI, -- January 6, 2005 - Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation (AWAC), operating as United Express, reports its December 2004 traffic. Year-to-date, AWAC enplaned nearly 1.3 million more passengers in 2004 versus 2003.
AWAC schedules more than 500 departures per day to 71 cities in 26 states and three Canadian provinces....
Suttle-Straus: Again Chosen As a “Best of Best” Workplace in America
Suttle-Straus, Waunakee based communications company, has again been recognized as an industry leader. For the fifth year in a row, the Printing Industries of America (PIA) awarded the company for its ex-emplary human resources practices in its 2004 Best Workplace in America (BWA) program. Begun to specifically honor companies that provide a superior work environment, BWA is judged by...
Governor Doyle: Calls for Special Session to
Contact: Ethnie Groves, Governor Doyle's Office,
608-261-2156
Governor Jim Doyle today called on the Legislature to meet
in special session on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 to approve a refinancing
of state debt that will save Wisconsin taxpayers an estimated $11 million.
The legislation would allow the state to achieve savings on bonding by
obtaining a lower interest rate. The...
WisBiz People: RoleFlow Swimming Against Cautious Midwestern Current
This is the first edition of WisBiz People, a new column from WisBusiness Editor Brian Clark. If you know someone with a good business story to tell, write to clark@wisbusiness.com with your idea.
MADISON - Mark Blumenfeld never wanted his software company - RoleFlow - to be a poster child for a struggling information technology start-up.
The former CIO at Fiskars...
WisBusiness: Dane County Judge Denies Injunction to Stop Madison’s Minimum Wage Increase
By Gary Fisher
For WisBusiness.com
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi today denied a temporary injunction to stop Madison from enforcing a city ordinance that raised the minimum wage for employees in the city.
Bill G. Smith, NFIB/Wisconsin state director, and the Mainstreet Coalition for Economic Growth Inc., filed a lawsuit last month against the city challenging the city's legal authority in...
