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Platypus Advertising + Design announced that it is acquiring the assets and most employees at NOISE Inc.'s Milwaukee operation.

UW Credit Union has received an Excellence Award for Strategic Leadership from the CUNA Human Resources Training Development Council.

Jerry David, a wealth management advisor for Prescient Financial Solutions at Northwestern Mutual, has earned a Top of the Table membership in the Million Dollar Roundtable.

More than 1,000 associates at Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. will volunteer their time to nonprofit organizations this from May 13 to 18 as part of the company’s Baird Gives Back Week.

Johnson Investment Services, a division of Racine-based Johnson Bank, has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management.

Kenosha-based tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc. has acquired Challenger Lifts Inc. for about $38 million in cash.

AptarGroup Inc., a dispenser manufacturing company based in Crystal Lake, Ill., announced it will invest $50 million in its Mukwonago manufacturing facility.

MRPC, a Butler-based single-source provider of medical device components and assemblies, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on May 14 for a 15,000-square-foot addition to its 85,000-square-foot facility at 13161 W. Glendale Ave.

The Governor's Export Achievement Awards were announced last week at the Wisconsin International Trade Conference at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee.

Norcross, Ga.-based Rock-Tenn Company will close its facility at 2800 W. Custer Ave. in Milwaukee by July 5 and lay off about 69 workers there.