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Nearly half of the supply chain experts surveyed in the latest Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing expect business conditions to get worse in the next six months.

In another world, without a global pandemic, the late-February mass shooting at Molson Coors’ Milwaukee brewery might have been a major topic on the company’s first quarter earnings call.

Molson Coors Beverage Co. says the cost of reimbursing bars for untapped kegs and not being able to sell finished kegs soon enough will cost it around $50 million.

Milwaukee-based Marcus Corp. is receiving a loan of nearly $91 million to help the company weather the storm that has resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dan Sinykin, president of Janesville-based Monterey Mills, decided his company had to act fast once he saw reports of nationwide PPE shortages as the fight against COVID-19 ramped up in mid-March. 

Enterprise Holdings, the parent company for several car rental brands including Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental, has informed state officials that it has laid off 260 employees in the Milwaukee area.

Brew City Kayak owner Michael Fischer is gearing up for a season that won't be anything like the past 10 he's been in business.

The City of Cudahy Health Department on Wednesday said that 503 people have been tested for COVID-19 from April 24 to 28 as part of an investigation of the coronavirus outbreak at the Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant.

State public health officials are investigating 187 facility-based outbreaks of COVID-19, including 48 in workplaces.  

Milwaukee-based early-stage venture capital fund Bold Coast Capital is no longer raising funds due to the economic impact of COVID-19, according to a Bold Coast Capital newsletter.