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Butler-based MRPC, a medical device components and assemblies manufacturer, has acquired Largo, Fla.-based ETI Incorporated.

Ripon Printers in Ripon has acquired certain business interests of Sells Printing Company in New Berlin.

A panel of accomplished female business leaders will share their insights at the 2012 BizTimes Women in Business Breakfast, which also will feature the presentation of the BizTimes Woman Executive of the Year to Gail Lione.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee named Magda Peck the inaugural dean of the Joseph Zilber School of Public Health last October. Construction of the school's building in the former Pabst Brewery complex is nearing completion, and Peck recently started her duties as dean.

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. has recently implemented a management development program for its new employees.

Shouldn’t mission statements be exciting and compelling? Isn’t a mission all about heart and emotion, about caring and helping, about being human?

Bob Wills is committed to the local food movement in Milwaukee, which is why he decided to open his new cheesemaking facility right in the heart of the city.

Congress has given many business owners an incredible tax bonus by increasing the lifetime gift tax exemption amount to more than $5 million, but only until the end of this year. Barring additional legislative action, that exemption will expire and be reduced to only $1 million. This gift tax exemption level provides many business owners an unprecedented opportunity to pass on the family business free of exposure to wealth transfer taxes.

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce's Council of Small Business Executives will launch a campaign this week to raise $75,000 for Second Chance Partners for Education's new education center.

Author Ritch Eich has recognized that motivation and direction from company leaders has become the next victim to the economic recession.