BizTimes Staff

MGS Mfg. Group Inc., headquartered in Germantown, announced it has purchased Hospira’s injection molding plant in Buffalo, N.Y.

Sheboygan-based Johnsonville Sausage LLC is holding tightly onto its bratwursts.

The Council of Small Business Executives is accepting nominations for its Future 50 Awards, which salute the fastest-growing companies in southeastern Wisconsin.

Racine-based Modine Manufacturing Company has increased the size of its Board of Directors from seven to eight, adding Christine Y. Yan, 48, president of storage and workplace systems of Stanley Black and Decker.

Home sales in Wisconsin were down 11.3 percent in March and 8.5 percent in the first quarter, but average home sale prices rose 1.9 percent to $136,500 in March, year-over-year, and prices were up 4.2 percent, to $131,250, in the first quarter compared to the first quarter of 2013, according to the latest report from the Wisconsin Realtors Association.

FedEx Ground plans to build a 202,950-square-foot distribution center on a 30-acre site on the south side of County Line Road, about one-third of a mile west of Pilgrim Road, in Menomonee Falls.

Continuing to demonstrate a strong appetite for Streeterville real estate, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has paid $79.5 million for a 28-story office tower in the neighborhood where it already is the largest tenant.

Payrolls climbed in 34 U.S. states in March and unemployment rates fell in 21, showing the job market was making progress across much of the world's largest economy.

As Yoda might say: A site for a museum you must find.

In what could eventually be one of the largest shifts of employees in the Chicago area in years, AbbVie Inc. is planning to fill a 558,859-square-foot office property in north suburban Mettawa over the next few years.

Green Bay-based Associated Banc-Corp reported first quarter net income of $45.1 million, or 27 cents per share, down from $47.3 million, or 28 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2013.

Waukesha State Bank is working on plans to build a bank branch in Hartland at the current site of the Hartbrook Lanes bowling alley at 550 Hartbrook Drive.