Manufacturing

U.S. employers picked up their pace of hiring in March, a sign that suggests a winter slowdown was only temporary.

Caterpillar Inc. is laying off 60 production employees at its South Milwaukee plant.

Two former MillerCoors employees are being accused of embezzling millions of dollars from the company over several years.

Milwaukee wholesale ice cream maker Purple Door Ice Cream has moved out of its shared space in the Clock Shadow Building and into its own facility in the same Walker's Point neighborhood.

Jason Inc., the Milwaukee-based parent company to a global family of manufacturing companies in the seating, finishing, components and automotive acoustics markets, announced the selection of Srivas Prasad as president of Milsco, a leader in the manufacture of innovative seating solutions for the powersports, turfcare and heavy equipment markets.

Jason Inc., the Milwaukee-based parent company to a global family of manufacturing companies in the seating, finishing, components and automotive acoustics markets, announced the selection of Srivas Prasad as president of Milsco, a leader in the manufacture of innovative seating solutions for the powersports, turfcare and heavy equipment markets.

We have been getting significant positive economic news of late, but here is one you may have missed, because for some reason it has not generated much media coverage.

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that the gross domestic product grew at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter.

The Waukesha County Business Alliance and media sponsor BizTimes Media have announced the 2014 Top 10 Businesses of the Year.

Malvern, Pa.-based Liberty Property Trust, a real estate investment trust, has announced plans to build a 172,000-square-foot speculative industrial building in Oak Creek.