Ideas

Midwest Business Brokers and Intermediaries-WI Chapter will host Get Your Foot in the Door in 2014 on Tuesday, Feb. 11, from noon to 5 p.m. at Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 N. Broadway in Milwaukee.

Westbury Bancorp Inc., the parent company of West Bend-based Westbury Bank, has named Greg J. Remus chief operating officer of the company and bank.

A beer garden is planned at a fourth Milwaukee County park, this time for Humboldt Park in the city of Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood.

Brookfield-based North Shore Bank has added a video teller ATM at its new grocery store branch in Kenosha.

The Wisconsin Technology Council is accepting entries for the 2014 Governor’s Business Plan Contest, its annual statewide competition to recognize entrepreneurial ideas, through Jan. 31.

Matt Neumann’s Pewaukee-based company, Sunvest Solar, is running hot these days. It has more than 210 solar energy projects in some phase of installation, he told attendees at a recent conference in Madison, but only one in Wisconsin.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup today unveiled a white paper calling for employers to remain flexible and agile in response to unpredictable macroeconomic forces, and that the only way to achieve this is through strategic simplification.

Wisconsin's business owners are optimistic about the year ahead, according to a study conducted by BMO Harris Bank.

Brown Deer-based Bank Mutual Corp. reported fourth quarter net income of $2.7 million, or 6 cents per share, up 16.9 percent from $2.3 million, or 5 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Green Bay-based Associated Banc-Corp reported fourth quarter net income of 47.7 million, or 28 cents per share, up from 46.6 million, or 26 cents per share, at the same time a year ago.