Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. has reached a new milestone with client assets exceeding $100 billion for the first time.

Kenosha-based tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc. has acquired Challenger Lifts Inc. for about $38 million in cash.

Johnson Investment Services, a division of Racine-based Johnson Bank, has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management.

More than 1,000 associates at Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. will volunteer their time to nonprofit organizations this from May 13 to 18 as part of the company’s Baird Gives Back Week.

Jerry David, a wealth management advisor for Prescient Financial Solutions at Northwestern Mutual, has earned a Top of the Table membership in the Million Dollar Roundtable.

The improving economy is yielding dividends for First National Bank Fox Valley. FNB will expand its corporate office at 550 S. Green Bay Road by 8,000 square feet. The space will expand the bank's operations department, add training and conference rooms and a new employee lounge and break room.

UW Credit Union has received an Excellence Award for Strategic Leadership from the CUNA Human Resources Training Development Council.

Kenosha-based tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc. has acquired Challenger Lifts Inc. for about $38 million in cash.

Platypus Advertising + Design announced that it is acquiring the assets and most employees at NOISE Inc.'s Milwaukee operation.

The Wisconsin Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG Wisconsin) announced that Tom Walton, managing director at Hanley, Hammill, Thomas, has succeeded Steven Peterson, managing director at Brass Ring Capital Inc., as chapter president.

Aside from city founders Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn and George Walker, few people, if any, have had more impact on Milwaukee than entrepreneur, community advocate and philanthropist Michael J. Cudahy.