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Modine Manufacturing Co. reported fiscal first quarter net earnings of $10.6 million, or 21 cents per share, up significantly from a $900,000 loss in the fiscal first quarter of 2013.

Racine-based Johnson Outdoors Inc. reported a slight fiscal third quarter net sales increase, from $128.6 million in 2012 to $129.8 million this year.

Funds affiliated with CCMP Capital are selling all of their 7.02 million shares of stock in Generac Holdings Inc. through a secondary offering, excluding small amounts held by directors and a former director that were given as compensation for service on the board of directors.

Actuant Corp. announced it is acquiring Viking SeaTech, a Scottish offshore oil and gas support company, for about $225 million.

The Milwaukee area manufacturing sector continued to recover in July, according to a report from the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee

Only 43 percent of local manufacturers have experienced a sales increase in the past year, down from 70 percent in 2012, according to the 2013 Mid-Year Manufacturing Survey from The Paranet Group.

*Friday, Aug. 2, the 3rd annual Urban Island Beach Party will bring live music, a limbo contest, interactive art...

BizTimes Media’s third annual Giving Guide offers southeastern Wisconsin’s business community an outlet to connect with area nonprofit organizations for philanthropic involvement.

Randall D. Crocker, president and CEO of Milwaukee-based law firm Von Briesen & Roper, S.C., today announced a new partnership between the firm and the Pabst Theater Group (the Pabst Theater, the Riverside Theater and the Turner Hall Ballroom). The partnership entails sponsoring the theaters’ “Indie in Milwaukee” concerts.

The Brew City Cigar Fest will follow Milwaukee’s lineup of summer festivals this year with an evening of cigar samples, spirits, food from area restaurants and live entertainment.