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Facing another quarter of mounting net losses, ZBB Energy Corp., a Menomonee Falls-based developer of renewable energy power platforms and hybrid vehicle control systems, is exploring its strategic options and is seeking sources of additional financial investments.

First Business Bank-Milwaukee announced the election of Timothy Wallen to its board of directors.

Mequon-based Mortgagebot LLC plans to move its headquarters from 1000 W. Donges Bay Road in Mequon 2.5 miles north to a 40,000-square-foot space in the East Mequon Corporate Center V building at 12080 N. Corporate Parkway in Mequon.

Anthony Jovanovich, chairman and chief executive officer of Community Banc-Corp. of Sheboygan Inc., announced that Community Bank & Trust posted record earnings of $5.0 million for 2012.

RDA Holding Co., publisher of the 91-year-old Reader's Digest magazine and parent company of Greendale-based Reiman Publications, has filed for bankruptcy to cut $465 million in debt and focus on North American operations as consumers shift from print to electronic media.

Milwaukee-based A.O. Smith Corp. has about $800 million to invest in water technology acquisitions and is poised for growth in 2013.

The student team representing Marquette University’s Graduate School of Management took the prize at the Association for Corporate Growth’s recent ACG Cup competition.

Gov. Scott Walker on Monday announced his two-year budget will provide $25 million for use on investment capital initiatives.

Early in a new year many of us want to re-organize our lives, especially our work lives.

In the 1980s, while I was a senior vice president at JH Collectibles, we were so focused on producing fashion sportswear for the misses market we missed the emerging “women's” size market.