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Partnership Bank announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the two Ozaukee County bank branches operated by Oak Creek-based Tri City National Bank.

The Wisconsin Bankers Association has named Thomas Pamperin, president and CEO of Premier Community Bank in Marion, as its new board chair for 2013-2014.

The effort to establish Milwaukee as a global hub of freshwater research, technology and innovation received another boost today when Kikkoman Foods Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kikkoman Corp., announced that it will make a $1 million contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to, “advance the study of safe and sustainable drinking water.”

Husco International announced today it is embarking on a multi-year, $45 million capital expansion project at its Wisconsin facilities in Waukesha and Whitewater, an endeavor that is expected to create more than 150 permanent new jobs in the state by 2015.

National innovation speaker Adam Hartung will host an innovation workshop for manufacturing executives on Wednesday, June 26 from 9...

A Sheboygan man has been charged with stealing money from his employer, Kohler Co.
 

Orange City, Iowa-based Diamond Vogel Paints recently purchased a 48,000-square-foot building in Sheboygan Falls for $1.15 million.

The UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc. will receive a $205,850 Brownfield Program award from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to assist in the environmental remediation at the site of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's new Innovation Campus in Wauwatosa.
 

Curtis Industries, a Milwaukee-based division of Powers Holdings, announced it has acquired Tri-Mag, Inc., which manufactures standard and customized power supplies.
 

A partnership with the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce, the Changzhou Municipal Government, Asia- America Chamber of Commerce, World Trade Center Wisconsin and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce will present "Changzhou Meets The USA: A Seminar on Bilateral Trade & Investment."