Manufacturing

UAW Local 469 members at Master Lock will hold an informational picket near the company's plant in Milwaukee on Friday, April 19 at the corner of North 32nd and Center streets to protest the company's current contract offer. The action is not a strike and the union said it is encouraging members to continue working.

Kenosha-based tool and equipment manufacturer Snap-On Inc. today reported first quarter net earnings of $82.8 million, or $1.40 per diluted share, up 16.6 percent from net earnings of $71 million, or $1.2 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2012.

Mequon-based Kendall Packaging Corp. will break ground on a 56,000-square-foot expansion to its plant in Jefferson on April 26.

On a trade mission to China, Gov. Scott Walker announced that the Ginseng Board of Wisconsin has signed an agreement with a Chinese medicine company to use the Trademark Seal on their purchases of Wisconsin ginseng from the Ginseng & Herb Coop over the next ten years.

Milwaukee-based Lakeview Equity Partners LLC has acquired UAS Laboratories Inc., an Edina, Minn.-based pioneer in the research, development and manufacture of probiotic nutritional supplements.

Over the years, Milwaukee has been called the brewing capital of the world, the toolbox of the world and most recently, the freshwater capital of the world. But it can also add another moniker to its mantel. It is the spice capital of the world.

BizTimes Media LLC has announced the winners of its 2013 Bravo! Entrepreneur Awards and I.Q. (Innovation Quotient) Awards.

Oshkosh Corp. announced that its Oshkosh Defense division plans to reduce its workforce in Oshkosh by approximately 700 hourly positions starting in mid-June 2013 and by approximately 200 salaried positions through July.

In case you missed it, Koss headphones were featured on the recent two-hour premiere of the Emmy-Award winning show, “Mad Men.”

Engine experts at Milwaukee-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. have developed a super-concentrated fuel treatment and stabilizer that treats more fuel and protects engines from the impact of ethanol-blended fuels for up to three years.