Economic Development

Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker White Plains, N.Y.-based Marsh Inc., has announced the acquisition of Wisconsin-based Security Insurance Services Inc., which has offices in New Berlin and Appleton.

At the midway pole, the economy continues to recover.

Robert Buerger has been named senior vice president and chief lending officer at ISB Community Bank in Ixonia.

Dennis Lynch has been appointed to the Fiserv Inc. board of directors. Brookfield-based Fiserv provides financial services technology solutions to a global market.

The A.O. Smith Corporation has increased its quarterly cash dividend by 25 percent, to $.20 per share. The company's Common Stock and Class A Common Stock are affected.

Wisconsin banks who received capital through the Small Business Lending Fund have increased small business lending by $45.3 million since 2010, according to a report from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Milwaukee-area businesses see continued growth in the third quarter, according to the latest Business Outlook Survey conducted by the...

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.