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The Wisconsin Economic Future Study, released today by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), says manufacturing continues to be the economic driver industry of Wisconsin. The study encourages the state to develop strategies that further strengthen driver industries.

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When The Who recorded the song "Going Mobile" in 1971, they had no idea what the future held, nor that they were the predictors of it.

Waukesha-based Spancrete played a key role in last Friday’s reconstruction of the Rawson Avenue Bridge.

A judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Monday, June 10, approved the final sale of Waukesha's Golden Guernsey Dairy LLC to Morton Grove, Ill.-based Lifeway Foods Inc.

Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft and import division of MillerCoors, has purchased property behind its 10th Street brewery in Milwaukee.

Employers in the metropolitan Milwaukee area expect to hire at a vigorous pace in the third quarter, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey.

ZBB Energy Corp., a Menomonee Falls-based developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms and hybrid vehicle control systems, announced that president and chief executive officer Eric Apfelbach has been invited for the second consecutive year to serve the Clinton Global Initiative as a member of the Renewable & Distributed Energy Working Group, which met Friday.

Cudahy-based Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. has opened an outbound service center Kansas City, Mo., expanding the company’s footprint to include Kansas, Nebraska and western Missouri.

Rust-Oleum to plans to invest $1.3 million to upgrade its Pleasant Prairie plant expand its small batch spray paint production. The expansion will create 54 new jobs.