Manufacturing

Johnson Outdoors Inc. today reported a net loss for the fiscal fourth quarter of $3.2 million, or 32 cents per share, compared with net income of $17.3 million, or $1.77 per share, in the same period a year ago.

The Milwaukee-area manufacturing sector continued to decline in November, but at a slower rate than in the previous month, according to a report released today by the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

Milwaukee-based manufacturer Brady Corp. has sold its Varitronics LLC division to Minnesota private equity firm Renaissance Equity Partners.

Waukesha-based Generac Holdings Inc. announced that due to market conditions, the secondary offering of shares of the company’s common stock by certain selling stockholders is being withdrawn from the marketplace.

After 26 years as one of the prominent voices and leaders in the Wisconsin business community through his work as the senior vice president of government relations at the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), James Buchen will leave the organization to establish a new, independent public affairs firm.

Waukesha-based Generac Holdings Inc. announced it plans to acquire Latin American generator manufacturer Ottomotores UK Ltd. for $46.5 million.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be the keynote speaker at a Workforce Development Program to be presented by the Waukesha County Business Alliance on Wednesday, Dec. 12.

Cudahy-based Lucas-Milhaupt Inc., a subsidiary of Handy & Harman Ltd., announced it has acquired Inmet Metal Processing Plant Ltd. of Gliwice, Poland.

Palermo Villa Inc. and Voces de la Frontera, the activist group advocating for some of the company's employees, are both assessing National Labor Relations Board Milwaukee regional director Irving Gottschalk's initial verbal rulings on complaints that the firm violated labor laws.

Judie Taylor, president of Dueco Inc., announced the growing company is adding a second shift of production at its truck body manufacturing shop in Waukesha.