Ideas

As the economic and political situations seem to become more uncertain, Wisconsin companies are wondering about the near-term outlook.

Believe it or not, 2012 will soon be coming to a close and the new year provides business owners with an opportunity to take a fresh look at their company retirement plans.

While time constraints often limit employers from tending to their employees' career development, Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni suggest a simple way for managers to fulfill employees' development needs: brief but frequent conversations.

Blogging is a powerful tool. But taking the time to plan how you'll develop content and aligning it with your company's brand and goals – both externally for your customers and internally for your employees – makes it even more powerful. It's an approach that will help elevate your brand from an idea to an asset.

The five fastest-growing companies of the Future 50 in 2012 are understandably bullish about the future.

Campbell Soup Company announced Thursday it will close its South Plainfield, N.J., spice plant and consolidate spice production at its Milwaukee plant.

The Milwaukee area manufacturing sector continued to languish this month, according to a report released today by the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

The University of Michigan-Thomson Reuters Consumer Confidence Index rose in September to 78.3, its highest level since May.

Thursday, Sept. 27, through Thursday, Oct, 11, the Milwaukee Film Festival will celebrate the art of film with showings...

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. has donated two electric vehicles and its services in developing related curriculum to Pulaski High School in Milwaukee.