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The Layton Boulevard West Neighbors (LBWN) and Impact Seven, Inc. today are launching a nearly $6 million co-development initiative that will rehabilitate 22 foreclosed residential properties and two commercial properties within the Layton Boulevard West, Clarke Square and Muskego Way neighborhoods.

Yahoo! chief executive officer Marissa Mayer, a Wausau native, sparked a national conversation recently by announcing to her employees that the company will no longer allow telecommuting.

Yahoo! chief executive officer Marissa Mayer, a Wausau native, sparked a national conversation recently by announcing to her employees that the company will no longer allow telecommuting.

Those sounds you may hear are the moans and groans of people engaged in various acts of heavy lifting. And I’m not talking about snow.

In its 2012 financial statement, Sheboygan-based property and casualty insurance firm Acuity reported that its assets under management reached an all-time high of $2.75 billion and policyholders’ surplus finished the year at a record $1.125 billion.

ABC Supply Holding Corp., the parent company of Beloit-based American Builders & Contractors Supply Co. Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to redeem all of the shares held by its minority shareholders, an investor group led by Advent International.
Upon the closing of the transaction, 100 percent of the shares of ABC Supply will be controlled by the company’s co-founder, Diane M. Hendricks.
 

Northern Trust Corp. announced it has received no objections from the Federal Reserve Board to its proposed 2013 capital plan.
 

Pewaukee-based Waterstone Mortgage Corp. has unveiled a new logo as part of a rebranding campaign.
 

Milwaukee-based ARI Network Services Inc., a provider of software and data solutions, announced it has entered into definitive agreements with investors in a private placement of $4.8 million of its common stock at a purchase price of $1.50 per share.

Company owners interested in learning more about the process and prospects of buying or selling businesses are invited to attend the annual BizTimes M&A Forum, which will take place Friday, May 3, at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.