Manufacturing

Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. reported that its fiscal second quarter net sales increased 2 percent to $439.1 million.

Exhibit Systems has moved from Menomonee Falls to a larger production and office facility in Brookfield.

Briggs & Stratton Corp. chairman, president and chief executive officer Todd Teske was re-elected chairman of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the state's chamber of commerce and largest business association, in a vote of the WMC Board.

Strattec Security Corp. reported fiscal second quarter net income of $2.4 million, or 70 cents per share, up from $1.5 million, or 47 cents per share, for the same period a year ago.

Many manufacturers struggle to maintain their competitive positions in regional and global markets that are changing faster than ever.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. has promoted two employees to senior executive positions.

Waukesha-based crane manufacturer Superior Crane Corp. is preparing to ship two 320,000 pound cranes to a major steel mill in Arkansas.

The Waukesha-Ozaukee-Washington Workforce Development Board hosted a job fair Friday for workers displaced when the Golden Guernsey dairy processing facility in Waukesha closed suddenly this month.

Instead of focusing on innovation, manufacturing companies often continue to focus on their core businesses, even if they risk becoming less relevant, or, worse yet, irrelevant.

Johnson Controls Inc. announced the appointments Alex Molinaroli as vice chairman and Brian Kesseler has as vice president and president of the Glendale-based company's Power Solutions business.