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Orion Energy Systems Inc., a Manitowoc-based power technology enterprise, announced it has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding equity interest in Harris Manufacturing Inc. and Harris LED LLC. Harris Manufacturing and Harris LED, located in Green Cove Springs, Fla., engineer, design, source and manufacture energy-efficient lighting systems, including fluorescent and LED lighting solutions and day-lighting products.

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Milwaukee-based Rishi Tea needs additional space and could move to another location in the city or expand at its current location, co-owner and vice president of sales Benjamin Harrison said.

Nashotah-based Dickten Masch Plastics LLC has expanded its capacity with a 17,000-square-foot warehouse in Pewaukee.

GPS Education Partners has moved its corporate offices to 13000 W. Silver Spring Drive in Butler. The new offices open today.

Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. announced that two of its veteran bankers, Brian Doyal and Brian McDonagh, will assume the position of co-head of Global Investment Banking, effective Jan. 1, 2014.

Advanced Disposal, an integrated environmental services company, has completed the acquisition of Sheboygan Waste Materials Co., further expanding the company's eastern Wisconsin footprint.

UMB Fund Services Inc. plans to move its office from 803 W. Michigan St. on the west side of downtown Milwaukee about 1.5 miles northeast to the Schlitz Park office complex on the north side of downtown Milwaukee.

Pewaukee-based Mobile Medical Specialists (MMS) has acquired Visiting Medical Doctors (VMD), which has offices in Milwaukee and Waukesha.

Waukesha State Bank announced that its board of directors promoted Paula Brierton to president of its payroll services division, Payroll Complete.