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Harp & Eagle Ltd., which owns several small hotels and restaurants in Wisconsin including Country Clare Irish Inn & Pub in Milwaukee, recently purchased the 20-room Clarke Hotel in downtown Waukesha for $1 million, according to state records.

Sussex-based The Industrial Controls Co. has acquired the assets of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Control Masters Inc.

Sheboygan-based property and casualty insurer Acuity now has more than 1,000 employees for the first time in the company's 90 year history.

NM Neptune LLC, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc., has acquired Starwood Energy's 25-percent Class C stake in the Neptune Regional Transmission System.

The assets of AFW Foundry Inc. have been sold to The Mumford Companies, a Chicago-based diversified business and real estate holding company.

Chicago-based MillerCoors LLC, which brews much of its beer in Milwaukee, reported it reduced water usage by 9.1 percent per barrel in 2013.

Fontarome Chemical Inc., a flavor, fragrance and pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer that had operated in St. Francis, has been cited for 23 safety and health violations—including seven willful, one repeat and 15 serious—by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The company has been placed in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program, and the citations carry proposed penalties of $449,680, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.

Milwaukee-based Joy Global Inc., a manufacturer of mining equipment and the parent company of P&H Mining Equipment Inc., has announced its plans to establish a warehouse and distribution center operation in a 300,000-square-foot building in Oak Creek.

Sussex-based The Industrial Controls Co. has acquired the assets of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Control Masters Inc.