Manufacturing

Kenosha-based Jockey International Inc. on Monday announced plans to donate personal protective equipment on a national level for health care workers battling the coronavirus, while also making targeted contributions in Kenosha and New York.

The number of respondents expecting business conditions to get worse during the next six months nearly doubled in the latest Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing.

Michelle Kumbier, chief operating officer of Harley-Davidson Motor Co., will leave her role with the company on April 3, the Milwaukee-based motorcycle maker disclosed in a securities filing Monday.

Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. is cutting the pay of salaried employees by 25% to 30% and halting its 401(k) match as it seeks to control costs amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Inc. has reached a settlement agreement with Impala Asset Management, which had sought to have two new directors elected to the company’s board.

Molson Coors Beverage Co. is paying hourly brewery employees an extra $5 per hour for any onsite work.

Five top executives at Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. will take a combined annualized $1 million cut in their base salaries in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Fredonia-based Guy & O’Neill Inc. has acquired Minnesota-based Boomerang Laboratories Inc. to expand its product breadth and capabilities.

It seems like a long time ago, but it was just on March 12 that Jalem Getz walked into Wantable’s offices in Walker’s Point and told around 70 employees they would start working from home immediately.

A grassroots effort dubbed the “Maskforce” has mobilized to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) by the hundreds of thousands for nurses and doctors on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.