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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.

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

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of $16.5 million, or 23 cents per share, compared with a net profit of $41.4 million, or 55 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

St. Louis-based leading national scrap metal processor Alter Trading Corp. has purchased Miller Compressing Company.

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

Has anyone noticed how many former market leaders are facing major revenue challenges? Sharp. Dell. Best Buy. HP. Penny's....

Campbell Soup Company announced Thursday it will close its South Plainfield, N.J., spice plant and consolidate spice production at its Milwaukee plant.
The move makes Milwaukee's spice facility, 500 West Edgerton Ave., the major food manufacturer's only spice operation supplying its U.S. thermal plants.

Waukesha-based generator manufacturer Generac has raised its outlook for 2012 in light of strong financial results it expects for the third quarter.