Economic Development

BMO Harris Bank has announced it is donating $750,000 over three years to United Way of Greater Milwaukee to promote healthy birth outcomes and reduce the city's infant mortality rate.

First Business Bank-Milwaukee, part of First Business Financial Services Inc., has hired Bob Bell as vice president.

Brown Deer-based Bank Mutual is offering specials on its new money loans for small businesses in order to meet customers' changing business needs.

The U.S. economy added 96,000 jobs in August, fewer than the 125,000 gain forecast by economists and well below the 200,000 needed to keep pace with the population growth, according to the latest report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Menomonee Falls-based Kohl's Department Stores today announced the company will expand its electric vehicle (EV) charging station initiative with 36 new stations across 18 additional Kohl's locations by the end of fall 2012.

Domestic beer consumption may be on the decline, but craft brewers are thriving in Milwaukee.

U.S. home prices rose for a second month in June, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, which showed the strongest back-to-back monthly advance in the more than decade-long history of the price gauge.

BMO Financial Group, the Toronto-based parent company of BMO Harris Bank, reported third quarter net income of $970 million (Canadian), up 37 percent from the same period a year ago.

Joy Global Inc. reported third quarter net income of $193.6 million, or $1.81 per share, up from $173.1 million, or $1.62 per share, in the same period a year ago.

Mary Kay Merkt has been named senior vice president, director of vendor management and procurement at Johnson Financial Group...