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Waukesha-based Generac Holdings Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Baldor Electric Company's generator products division, which is based in Oshkosh.

When Southridge Mall recently announced it would move Milwaukee County Transit System buses from the mall’s parking lot and move bus stops farther from the mall entrances, it was just another domino to fall in the process of making it more difficult for seniors and the disabled to ride and shop safely.

Port Washington-based Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp. announced the start of its annual Rediscover America national sales event, the company's largest sale of the year.

Super Steel LLC's recent designation as the fastest-growing company in the Future 50 for 2013 reflects one of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds in Milwaukee history.

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. reported fiscal fourth quarter net earnings of $58.3 million, or 78 cents per share, up from a net loss of $16.5 million, or 22 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Robert Arzbaecher, the outgoing chief executive officer of Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp., and Glen Hackmann, managing director, general counsel and secretary of Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., will be co-chairs of the 2014 fund drive for the United Performing Arts Fund of Greater Milwaukee.

Scan-Pac Mfg. Inc. has purchased another manufacturing facility adjacent to its headquarters in Menomonee Falls and plans to expand its business.

Mary Isbister, president at Mequon-based GenMet, will be the next chair of the Council of Small Business Executives board of directors.

Warren, Mich.-based Production Tool Supply Co. has acquired Menomonee Falls-based KM Tool Supply Ltd.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has awarded the Melvin Lurie Prize to Strattec Security Corporation and United Steelworkers 2-232.