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Racine-based S.C. Johnson, a manufacturer of several brand name household products, including Windex, Glade and Off!, has announced the expansion of WOW in the Yilo Krobo District of Ghana. The new WOW bundle features six products, including Raid Dual Action Insect Repellent & Home Freshener and Mr Muscle All-In-One Cleaner.

Germantown-based Cambridge Major Laboratories Inc., a global leader in pharmaceutical API development and manufacturing, and AAIPharma Services Corp. have announced the appointments of Ted Dolan as vice president of API operations and Syed Husain as vice president of the API business unit.

Earlier this month, the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Manufacturing Diversity Institute hosted an inaugural Innovation Café on Manufacturing Day that featured a presentation on “Accelerating American Diversity Manufacturing” by John Sibley Butler, the J. Marion West Chair in Constructive Capitalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sheboygan-based Rockline Industries, one of the world’s largest private-label manufacturers of consumer wet wipes and coffee filters, has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 22 percent and solid waste in its wipe operations by 39 percent.

BizTimes Media’s fourth annual Giving Guide offers southeastern Wisconsin’s business community an outlet to connect with area nonprofit organizations for philanthropic involvement.

Jim Kacmarcik, president of Grafton-based Kapco, Inc., will serve as the keynote speaker of Concordia University Wisconsin’s fall leadership series.

St. Francis Children's Center, of Glendale, has announced the honorees to be saluted at its 2014 Awards Banquet taking place on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at The Pfister Hotel.

Milwaukee business executive Sheldon B. Lubar and his wife, Marianne Lubar, have donated $3 million to the University of Wisconsin Law School.

The nonprofit organization GPS Education Partners was presented with $487,000 in funding from the AT&T Aspire program during an event held Thursday at Capitol Stampings Corp. in Milwaukee.

The Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin plans to hold its 13th annual Community Development Summit on Thursday, Oct. 16, with what the organization pegs as an interactive lab format.