Waste Management acquires City Wide Recycling in Milwaukee; Poblocki Sign acquires North Carolina firm; Sign-A-Rama Downtown Milwaukee acquires competitor

Don't count on an estate tax repeal by Richard Behrendt, first vice president and senior estate planner with Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., Milwaukee.

The Equitable Bank has hired Craig Plazak as vice president of cash management and business development. Plazak worked formerly...

MMAC’s economic indicators show mixed results; Koss hires Baker Tilly to replace Grant Thornton as auditor; MBBI names new board of directors; M&I Institutional Trust Services named best-in-class by PLANSPONSOR

Associated Bank presents free monthly business knowledge webinars Associated Bank has launched a "Business Knowledge Series" of webinars for...

Banking Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions  Federal Deposit Insurance Corp....

The sun is the source of all energy on Earth. Yet, here in Wisconsin, the direct use of the immense...

The United Way of Greater Milwaukee recently finished its annual campaign, raising more than $45.5 million for the organizations it supports. A portion of that money was raised during the last 10 days of the campaign and was done mostly by the means of social media and the power of connection.

Sue Marks, CEO of Pinstripe @SueMarks Sample Tweet: "RT @ronleopold: "Goals are dreams with deadlines." -Diana...

The issues that dominated the headlines in 2009 also played out prominently in the course of debate among authors during the year in the BizTimes Milwaukee Biz Blog.

"To the dismay of most observers, Congress has ended its 2009 session without resolving the frustrating uncertainty surrounding federal estate tax rules. Efforts in the Senate to extend the 2009 estate tax rules, which included a $3.5 million exemption and a 45 percent tax rate, stalled just before the Christmas holiday.

Dan Druml, the Milwaukee franchisee for Paul Davis Restoration, plans to redevelop most of two blocks near the Park East corridor in downtown Milwaukee. The blocks are bounded by West McKinley Avenue, North Sixth Street, West Vliet Street and North Eighth Street.