Economic Development

Southeastern Wisconsin business executives are more optimistic about the direction of their companies in the second half of the year than they were when the year began, according to the latest BizTimes Business Dashboard Survey.

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) announced today that wages were up 6.7 percent in the first quarter in Wisconsin.

The U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June as hiring slowed dramatically in the second quarter, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.2 percent, the Labor Department said today.

The Oak Creek Common Council on Tuesday approved a contract for design of a project to construct a new street to connect Fifth Avenue with Highway 100.

Private-sector payrolls in the United States picked up in June, suggesting that unemployment may have declined, according to a report released today by payrolls-processor Automatic Data Processing Inc.

Matt Smith has been named director of retirement sales and strategy at BMO Retirement Services, a part of BMO...

Municipal spending restraint was evident in a new study of 243 major cities and villages in Wisconsin.

Beth Wnuk, former regional president of Wisconsin for PNC Financial Services Group, has been named executive director of the Women's Leadership Institute at Mount Mary College.

Racine-based S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire ITW's global Space Bag brand and related assets.

Allison Transmission Inc,, the world's largest manufacturer of fully automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and hybrid-propulsion systems for city buses, announced it has invested in a non-controlling equity stake in Odyne Systems LLC of Waukesha.