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BizTimes Media will announce the recipients of its inaugural Best in Business Awards for 2013 in the Dec. 16 issue of BizTimes Milwaukee magazine.

MillerCoors will again hold its annual Holiday Lites celebration at the Miller Valley brewery in Milwaukee.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and a panel of business executives will focus on the “Key Industries for Job Growth.”

Midwest Food Processors Association Inc. will host its 109th annual convention and 86th Processing Crops Conference beginning tomorrow in Milwaukee.

U.S. manufacturing growth is at its highest level since April 2011, as production, hiring and orders continued to rise in November.

I get a ton of emails from people seeking insight or asking me to solve their sales dilemmas. Here are a few that may relate to your job, your life, and (most important) your sales thought process right now.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. A feast of turkey and fixings and getting together with family, it’s like Christmas without the presents – and that’s the best part!

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and a panel of business executives will focus on the “Key Industries for Job Growth.”

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services LLC, a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, announced it has agreed to acquire Quintillion Limited (Quintillion), a full-service hedge fund administrator in Ireland.

Madison-based Catalyze.io, a cloud-based health care technology company, announced that it has closed a Series A financing round co-led by Baird Capital's venture capital group, Arthur Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with participation from the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Gener8tor, Angels on the Water and other individual investors.