Serve You Custom Prescription Management Inc
Serve You Custom Prescription Management Inc, Milwaukee, starts 2008 with 11 new company accounts including Jones Dairy Farm, Fort Atkinson; Karl’s Transport Inc., Antigo; Holt Dental Supply, Waukesha; Steinhafels, Waukesha; Dillman Equipment, Prairie du Chien; Olsen’s Mill, Auroraville; Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry, Saukville; Zogg Insurance Services, Dallas; Stevens Industries, Teutopolis, Ill.; WJ Mangold Memorial Hospital, Lockney, Texas; Hazlett Tree Service, Townville, Penn. Serve You Custom Prescription Management Inc., was founded in 1987 and is the only Wisconsin-based pharmacy benefit management company that owns and operates it own mail-order pharmacy.
Milwaukee Microbusiness LLC
Milwaukee Microbusiness LLC, Milwaukee, recently launched Vtiger Customer Relationship Management Version 5.03 as a hosted service for businesses. The service makes a company’s sales data available over the internet around the clock, without the need for in-house servers or software licensing feeds. Additional information is available at www.milwaukeemicro.com.
Seaquist Closures
Seaquist Closures, Mukwonago, recently introduced its new Ultra Pour Spout. The spout, featured on many products like Heinz ketchup, mustard, dishwashing detergent, and facial products, has several unique features. The Ultra Pour Spout is an example of the company’s environmental sustainability efforts, it is the industry’s lightest part weight in its category, and the reduced closure size means less waste and greater efficiencies when packaging.
ProHealth Care
ProHealth Care’s Sleep Disorders Center at Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital and Waukesha Memorial Hospital has been accredited by The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The center treats a wide range of disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, nocturnal Myoclonus/Restless Leg Syndrome and other sleep disorders including sleepwalking, REM behavior disorder and night terrors. The Sleep Disorders Center also provides private rooms, and comfortable, bedroom-like settings at both hospitals. Patients have access to a multidisciplinary team of specialists, including pulmonologists, neurologists, four respiratory therapists and two electroneurodiagnostic technicians certified in polysomnography.
VJS Construction Services
VJS Construction Services, Pewaukee, has been named the general contractor for Evangelical and Reformed United Church of Christ in Waukesha. Construction is currently underway and there is an anticipated completion in the Summer or Fall of 2008. Groth Design Group, Inc., Cedarburg, will provide architectural services, Kevin King will serve as project manager and Glenn Pinowski as superintendent.
Pinnacle XL Inc.
Pinnacle XL, Inc., Milwaukee, has been named, “Entrepreneur 2007” by the YWCA of Greater Milwaukee. The award recognizes Pinnacle XL Inc’s achievement in growing a small business and its contribution to the community. Founded in 2000 with approximately 130 square feet of space, the company has grown to include eight employees and provide services to companies around the world. Pinnacle XL, Inc. makes numerous contributions to the global community it serves by providing services to organizations in need. Most recently, the company has started a nonprofit corporation to which a percentage of revenue is donated to support women and children’s education in Angola, Africa. The award is offered to businesses located in the YWCA small business incubators. The honorees were chosen by a committee including Bruce Wantuch, incubator manager; Lisa Boyd-Gonzales, associate executive director; and Shonda Biddle, director of workforce development.
Progressive Health will be the name of merged Milwaukee hospital systems
The boards of directors of Columbia St. Mary’s and Froedtert & Community Health announced the approval of a joint operating agreement to form Progressive Health, an organization that will financially integrate, govern and lead the combined hospital systems.
“The name Progressive Health was chosen to reflect the system’s strong forward-thinking ideas about how health care should be delivered,” the hospitals said in a joint announcement.
The combined system includes an academic medical center that will ensure it remains on the leading edge of the research and technology that drive progress in health care.
The system will continue Froedtert’s partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin Physicians Group and create new links between the academic medical center and community hospitals.
William Petasnick, president and chief executive officer of Wauwatosa-based Froedtert & Community Health, and Leo Brideau, president and CEO of Milwaukee-based Columbia St. Mary’s, will serve as co-presidents of Progressive Health.
Progressive Health will be led by a 16-member, community-based board of directors, which will be chaired by James Wigdale, chairman emeritus of Marshall & Ilsley Corp. Brideau and Petasnick will serve as members of the board.
“Progressive Health will provide a tremendous opportunity to transform health care throughout this region,” Brideau said. “It will be the premier health care system, leading advancements in patient quality and safety, avoiding duplication and enhancing our obligation to be good stewards of community resources.”
“Progressive Health will offer our patients access to the latest technology, evidence-based care and highest standards of quality,” Petasnick said. “We will focus on treating each patient’s unique needs and strive to go beyond what is expected.”
“The partnership between these outstanding community hospitals and academic medical center is absolutely the right thing for this community,” Wigdale said. “As board chair of this new organization, I firmly believe Progressive Health will offer consumers a better choice, providing the highest quality care at the lowest cost while fulfilling our commitment to be good stewards of the community’s resources.”
“The Medical College of Wisconsin endorses the formation of Progressive Health and its strong commitment to academic medicine,” said T. Michael Bolger, president and CEO, Medical College of Wisconsin. “This new organization will expand existing links between our academic medical center and community hospitals, providing patients throughout our region with greater access to Medical College faculty physicians.”
Columbia St. Mary’s and Froedtert & Community Health plan to continue to work through legal documents and regulatory review processes to complete the merger later this year. Additional information is available at www.ProgressiveHealthPartners.com.
Newsmaker Luncheon to focus on UWM Innovation Park
At the next Milwaukee Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon, Carlos Santiago, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will discuss the future of the school, including his plans to develop a new engineering campus and business park on the Milwaukee County grounds.
The luncheon will take place at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Newsroom Pub, 137 E. Wells St., in downtown Milwaukee. The public is invited to attend.
Santiago has raised more than $120 million in private money and has a pledge from philanthropist Michael Cudahy to buy the land needed to build the UWM Innovation Park in Wauwatosa.
Santiago envisions engineers from some of Milwaukee’s most vibrant companies working alongside faculty and students from UWM to advance the region’s technological capabilities and spur economic development. He is seeking businesses to partner and help fill the 82-acre campus.
The public is invited to attend the luncheon. The cost to attend is $15 for Press Club members, $20 for non-members, $10 for students. Lunch is included. Because seating is limited, pre-registration and advance payment is strongly recommended and may be made online at www.milwaukeepressclub.org.
Manufacturer to expand and move jobs to Milwaukee
HellermannTyton Corp. will shift its manufacturing operations from Naples, Fla., to Milwaukee, where it plans to expand and create 154 new jobs over the next three years.
The company is acquiring and renovating a facility at 8475 N. 87th St. and expanding an existing facility at 7930 N. Faulkner Road. The total project cost is estimated at $7.8 million.
HellermannTyton’s key markets include the light vehicle, truck manufacturing, OEM, and voice and data markets. The company’s customers include General Motors, Ford, Mercedes Benz, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Caterpillar, John Deere, the Smithsonian Institute, AT&T and Hewlett Packard.
Jim Campion, president of HellermannTyton North America, said, “We put together a very solid plan to expand our manufacturing operations in Milwaukee. With assistance from the state of Wisconsin, we feel confident we will be able to grow our manufacturing base in Milwaukee. This area offers a manufacturing mindset and vehicles to recruit and train employees, and that is critical to our long term, aggressive growth plans.”
Governor’s Business Plan Contest seek entrants
The State of Wisconsin has launched its 2008 Governor’s Business Plan Contest to encourage entrepreneurs in the creation, start-up and early-growth stages of high-tech businesses.
Participants have the chance to win seed capital, services that will help them launch their businesses and a grand prize worth $50,000.
Since its inception in 2004, more than 1,000 entries have been received and nearly $650,000 in cash and in-kind prizes has been awarded.
Produced by the Wisconsin Technology Council and a growing list of partners, the Governor’s Business Plan Contest engages contestants in a six-month process that includes mentoring and comments from judges on selected plans. It will also lead to valuable public and media exposure for the best business plans submitted by contestants and spur economic growth in Wisconsin.
In addition, past finalists have raised a reported $11 million in private equity, such as angel and venture capital.
The statewide contest is an opportunity to compete for cash and in-kind prizes, but it’s also a chance to get constructive feedback on your business plan and to help move it from a virtual business to a reality.
For more information, visit www.govsbizplancontest.com.
Verizon continues to upgrade its Wisconsin network
Verizon Wireless announced it invested more than $37 million in 2007 to enhance its digital network in Wisconsin.
The enhancements included building new cell sites, upgrading existing cell sites, increasing coverage area, and expanding its high-speed wireless broadband network to many new markets.
“Our mission in 2008 is to continue perfecting our network so that our customers can depend on us every time they pick up their wireless phones,” said T.J. Fox, president of the Wisconsin/Illinois Region for Verizon Wireless.
Since the company was formed in 2000, Verizon Wireless has invested more than $222 million on improvements to its network in Wisconsin, including the following upgrades in 2007: 10 new cell sites were activated statewide to improve network coverage and capacity; equipment on 51 existing cell sites throughout the state was upgraded; and 65 permanent backup generators were installed at Wisconsin cell sites; to ensure network functionality during times of crisis.
The company also expanded its high-speed wireless broadband network in the greater Milwaukee, Madison and Fox Valley areas and now has a coverage area that spans approximately 7,500 square miles around the state with the upgraded network.
CenterPoint proposes more industrial buildings along I-94
Chicago-based CenterPoint Properties plans to build three more speculative industrial buildings in Pleasant Prairie along Interstate 94.
CenterPoint recently presented a conceptual plan and related documents to the Pleasant Prairie Plan Commission for the construction of the first building in the development, a 453,000-square-foot structure that will feature warehouse, distribution and office space on approximately 30 acres of land.
The Kenosha County site is along the south side of 116th Street, southeast of a VW-Audi Distribution Center.
The first building is proposed to have 50 truck loading docks and four drive-in overhead doors. Parking spaces to accommodate 52 semi-trucks are proposed on either side of the building to the east and west.
