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Nemschoff Makes Furniture for Health Care Facilities

Almost everyone has used furniture made by Nemschoff Inc, but few know the Sheboygan brand.  Nemschoff makes furniture exclusively...

Corporate Culture

Question:In a couple of your articles from earlier this year, you talked about corporate culture. Is corporate culture something...

Get Smarter

Some organizations seem to struggle with corporate evolution, even in the midst of industry, market and/or technological change. Often,...

All Aboard

In an earlier article, I discussed how important it was to establish an advisory board. Once you have established...

Just a Minute with Jeff McKeown, President, Express Personnel Services

Address: 5605 Washington Ave., Suite #8, RacineWeb site: www.expresspersonnel.comIndustry: StaffingNumber of employees: Six full-time and two interns, plus more...

Personnel File

Accounting Kolb+Co., Brookfield, hired Katie Barrette as a marketing assistant; Tory Holman as word processor; and Thomas Case and...

Biz Notes

Mergers & Acquisitions Quad/Graphics Acquires Openfirst Quad/Graphics Inc. announced it has purchased a majority interest in Openfirst LLC,...
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Midyear Economic Forecast

Looking back, the American consumers led the U.S. economy out of the recession of 2001. They kept buying houses. They kept buying cars. They kept buying clothes. They kept buying computers and cell phones. They even returned to the airports. But now, American consumers are tired. They already have refinanced their debt and tapped out their home equity lines of credit. They also are absorbing a quadruple threat of rising energy costs, fuel costs, interest rates and health care costs. Consumer bankruptcies and mortgage foreclosures are skyrocketing. As consumer demand slows, so too will the U.S. economy in the second half of 2006, according to Clare Zempel, Milwaukee's foremost economist.

Zempel says Economy Will ‘Cool Off’

The U.S. economy is due for a "correction" or a "cooling off," rather than an outright collapse into stagflation...

Local Stocks Hit the Summertime Blues

The BizTimes Stock Index, despite skyrocketing to new all-time highs earlier this spring, lost its steam and fell right...

Pass It On

The costs of producing and transporting goods are rising dramatically. Gasoline costs more. Demands for natural gas, coal and...

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