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Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup and Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. are among 145 companies to be named among America's Most Honored Companies by Institutional Investor magazine.

Remember a couple of decades when 75,000 miles on a car was time to trade it in? Now, it's not unusual for an owner to drive a car for 200,000 miles.

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. announced a net loss of $8.7 million for its fiscal second quarter, an improvement from a $90 million net loss from the previous fiscal second quarter.

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce will host “Manufacturing: Powering Wisconsin, the United States and the World” on Friday, March 1, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

East Troy-based Wisconsin Oven Corp. has moved its assembly work to a 27,000-square-foot facility in Waukesha.

The Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership will host its annual Manufacturing Matters conference on Thursday, February 28 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hyatt Hotel in Milwaukee.

*Now through Thursday, Feb. 28, Stan’s Fit For Your Feet is hosting its seventh annual “Share-A-Pair” shoe drive. Interested...

The Harley-Davidson Foundation’s charitable giving topped $4.5 million in 2012, highlighted by a $200,000 grant to Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity for its Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative focused on the Washington Park neighborhood.

It was refreshing to hear, in his budget proposal to the state legislature last night, that Gov. Scott Walker does not plan additional cuts to shared revenue, transportation aids or municipal services, which are the largest, most crucial state aids the City of Milwaukee receives.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced he will allocate a $2.3 million investment in funding from a federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant for the Boys & Girls Club in his upcoming budget.