Economic Development

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc.’s fixed income asset management division, Baird Advisors, has signed a deal in which it will directly advise clients of Dearborn Partners LLC.

Bank directors have become more optimistic about economic improvement, with 43 percent expecting recovery progress by the end of the year, up from 13 percent in 2012, according to a survey by Bank Director and Grant Thornton LLP.

Miller’s Bakery plans to expand with a 13,000-square-foot addition to its facility at 8313 N. Steven Road in Milwaukee and will shift all production of its Pretzilla line of pretzel buns there from its headquarters location at 1415 N. Fifth St.

U.S. employers are more optimistic about the final quarter of 2013 than they have been in any fourth quarter since the start of the Great Recession, but Wisconsin employers are lagging behind their national counterparts in the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.

Economic indicators in metro Milwaukee posted a solid July performance, according to a monthly report by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.

Kenall Manufacturing evaluated both northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin for a year before it announced it would move operations from Gurnee, Ill. to Kenosha last week.

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Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. today reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of $177.3 million, or $3.41 per share, compared with a net profit of $11.7 million, or 40 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. announced today a new recruiting effort targeted to veterans.

Waterstone Mortgage recently opened its new corporate headquarters in Pewaukee at N25 W23255 Paul Road.