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Brown Deer-based Badger Meter Inc. last week reported third quarter net earnings of $10.2 million, or 71 cents per share, up 13.1 percent from $9 million, or 63 cents per share, in the third quarter of 2013.

The Institute for Supply Management is offering the ISM-Milwaukee Supply Management Scholarship program for the seventh consecutive year. Applications are due Thursday, Oct 30.

Brookfield-based Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. is currently transitioning into its new name, Milwaukee Tool, according to the company’s senior brand marketing manager Kharli Tyler.

Lake Geneva-based Trostel, a custom rubber molding and compounding company, recently launched a manufacturing youth apprenticeship program in cooperation with GPS Education Partners, a nonprofit that provides immersive work-based education programs. The manufacturer began providing learning space and apprenticeship training to high school students at its Whitewater and Lake Geneva operations in September.

Milwaukee-based Strattec Security Corp. has been named the 2014 Supplier of the Year by Ford Rotunda, which is part of the Ford Motor Company's customer service division.

Midwest Engineering Systems Inc., an automation systems manufacturer, is scheduled to celebrate the grand opening of its new 100,000-square-foot facility in Pewaukee on Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony and tour.

Wisconsin Eye has posted a video of the BizTimes Get Smarter Conference, which was held Friday at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino.

The Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board and Mayor Tom Barrett will host a job fair at Serb Hall, 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave., on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 8 to 11 a.m.

Steel shipments are up at the Port of Milwaukee by 47 percent through September, compared with the same span last year.

I went to a networking meeting last week hosted by a formal networking organization called Business Network International.