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Germantown-based Cambridge Major Laboratories Inc. (CML), a global leader in pharmaceutical API development and manufacturing, and AAIPharma Services Corp. has announced the appointment of Patrick Walsh as the chief executive officer of the merged company.

John McCarthy, principal at GRAEF, was honored as a Leader Making A Difference by the Rotary Club of Milwaukee at its lunch meeting at the War Memorial Center on Tuesday.

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Men's Wearhouse Inc. is attempting to acquire Port Washington-based Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp., according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The Rauser Agency, a health insurance and employee benefits solutions firm, recently moved its downtown Milwaukee headquarters office across the street from 400 E. Wisconsin Ave. to the 411 E. Wisconsin Ave. tower.

After working at Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. for 19 years, financial planner Betty Wellhoefer Hill has branched out to establish her own investment advisory firm in Grafton.

Milwaukee-based MGIC Investment Corp. has announced that J. Michael Lauer, who has been the company's chief financial officer since 1989, will retire on Feb. 28, 2014.

First Business Financial Services Inc. reported third quarter net income of $3.6 million, or 91 cents per diluted common share, in the third quarter, compared with $2.6 million, or 99 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Milwaukee-based investment banking firm Emory & Co. has received a U.S. Leading Adviser of the Year Award from London-based Acquisition International in the 2013 M&A Awards.