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Even though they are amply paid, you have to feel a little empathy for the CEOs and CFOs of big hospital corporations. They are caught in a Medicaid pressure cooker, and it is going to get worse.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Echo Lake Foods Inc. in Burlington for violations related to a fire at the plant on Jan. 30.

Waukesha-based Generac Holdings Inc. announced it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the equity of Tower Light Srl and its wholly-owned subsidiaries from European private equity fund Ambienta I and a group of minority-share investors.

Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. announced that it expects to report net sales and earnings below the guidance that it provided for fiscal 2013. The lower retail sales due to a late spring in the U.S. and Europe have not yet recovered in the current season, the company said.

EPSI has hired Dean Calin as inside sales manager. He previously worked in the aerospace and machining industries. Calin...

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce’s Council of Small Business Executives is raising $75,000 to help GPS Education Partners open its first education center in the City of Milwaukee.

As the nation’s “joyless recovery” limps along, the question for many people in Wisconsin is how the state stacks up to others.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc., Wisconsin's largest publicly traded company, announced that its board of directors has elected Alex Molinaroli, vice chairman, to serve as the company's next president and chief executive officer, effective Oct. 1, 2013.

Sensient Technologies Corp. has named Paul Manning president and CEO, effective February 2. Manning is currently serving as president, COO and director of the Milwaukee-based global color, flavor and fragrance manufacturer.

SPX Corp. has named William (Bill) Hegeman as president of the SPX Transformer Solutions Inc. business unit, which is headquartered in Waukesha.