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SABMiller Plc, the London-based parent company of MillerCoors, confirmed it will acquire Foster’s Group Ltd. with a sweetened offer of $9.9 billion for Australia’s biggest brewer.

The Milwaukee Water Council was awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the Economic Development Administration’s Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge.

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Swisher Hygiene Inc. a Charlotte, N.C.-based provider of essential hygiene and sanitation products and services, announced it has acquired the assets and certain liabilities of LTD of Wisconsin Inc., which does business as Midwest Alchemist in Brown Deer.

Generac Holdings Inc. reported that widespread power outages caused by severe weather throughout the Midwest and the East Coast are creating increased sales for its backup power generators.

Although the stock market has rocked investors’ confidence in the past week, employers in Wisconsin and Illinois are remarkably confident about their own prospects for the fourth quarter, according to the latest QPS Employment Forecasting Survey.

Some of the tax related provisions of President Barack Obama’s proposed American Jobs Act of 2011 could encourage employers to stimulate the economy.

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