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Brookfield-based QPS Employment Group, an employment services firm, has acquired Cambridge TEMPositions Inc., a recruiting firm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The Milwaukee office of Baker Tilly Capital, LLC, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm and subsidiary of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP, has completed the sale of Milwaukee-based Nature's Protein Inc. to J. Strickland Company of Olive Branch, Miss.

Menomonee Falls-based ZBB Energy Corp., a developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 31.6 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of 38 cents per share.

Pewaukee-based PJs Plumbing Company Inc. has acquired J.D. Wilson Plumbing LLC of Merton.

First Business Financial Services Inc. was recently ranked as the 15th top-performing mid-sized public bank in the country.

The Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association has named seven new leaders to its board of directors and leadership team for 2012-2013.

Dorner Mfg. Corp. has partnered with Incline Equity Partners of Pittsburgh to assist in its growth plans. Rich Ryan, former COO of Dorner, has also been named the CEO of the company.

Milwaukee Area Technical College graduated 12 dislocated workers from an accelerated bilingual CNC program last week.

Dozens of plant workers at Milwaukee-based Palermo's Pizza are on strike and say the company has engaged in union-busting tactics as employees tried to form a union, according to Voces De La Frontera, an immigrant rights group and low wage worker center that is working with the Palermo's employees. The workers walked off the job 15 days ago.

President and CEO Jim Kettinger has become shareholder of Kenosha-based IEA Inc. and merged the firm into a new company called Engendren.