Economic Development

Milwaukee-based National Baking Co. Inc. has acquired Oak Creek-based Melody Cookies Inc.

Shelter Mortgage Co. LLC will lay off 63 employees from its office at 4000 W. Brown Deer Road in Brown Deer.

Omaha, Neb.-based Cosentry, a leading Midwest IT solutions provider, announced it has acquired Milwaukee-based Red Anvil, a full service, managed data center provider.
The acquisition enables Cosentry to instantly expand its operations into the Milwaukee market enhancing the region’s current data center services with new disaster recovery, colocation, cloud services, managed hosting, and other managed service offerings.

Milwaukee-based ARI Network Services Inc. announced it has acquired TCS Technologies, a Cookville, Tenn.-based provider of software, websites and digital marketing services designed exclusively for dealers, wholesalers, retreaders and manufacturers within the automotive tire and wheel vertical.

Waukesha-based Generac Holdings Inc., a designer and manufacturer of generators and other small engine powered products, has acquired Bismarck, N.D.-based MAC Inc. and its related entities.

U.S. Bank will host How to Protect Your Business Against the Newest Threats on Monday, Oct. 20, from 8...

West Milwaukee-based Guardian Credit Union has introduced Buzz Points, a local business loyalty rewards program, for its 35,000 members.

Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21, has hired Matt Dorner to serve as its economic development director.

New Orleans, LA – Oftentimes, entrepreneurs lack the resources or the expertise to identify candidates to pilot a new product. Or, with testing complete, an established company may have only a loose understanding of the universe of potential customers for its new technology. Commercializing a new innovation requires insight—detailed knowledge of the audience that stands to benefit from the breakthrough. That's where WatrHub Inc. comes in.

New Orleans, La. – Leveraging its acquisition of Aquacue Inc. in 2013, Brown Deer-based Badger Meter introduced BEACON Advanced Metering Analytics in January and has made the water management data software a central feature of the company's pitch to attendees of the 2014 Water Environment Federation Exhibition and Conference this week in New Orleans.