Manufacturing

The stock market gained ground today as a key U.S. manufacturing gauge showed continued improvement in production in April.

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce will host Lead and influence change—inside your company and in your community on Tuesday, May 1, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Milwaukee Athletic Club, 758 N. Broadway in Milwaukee.

Top Floor Technologies, an industrial web development and Internet marketing company in New Berlin, has been recognized for its work at the Business Marketing Association Bell Awards.

Riding the recovery of the American automotive industry, Strattec Security Corp., a Milwaukee-based automotive parts supplier, reported fiscal third quarter net income of $2.7 million, or 82 cents per share, up from $55,000, or 2 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Koss Corp., the Milwaukee-based high-fidelity headphone company, reported fiscal third quarter net income of $896,715, or 12 cents per share, up from $640,962, or 9 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Badger Meter held its annual shareholder meeting Friday at Racine Federated Inc. in Racine, which the company acquired on January 31.

Milwaukee manufacturer Super Steel LLC has recruited and trained its first class of new employees through a partnership with Milwaukee Area Technical College and Wauwatosa staffing firm Aerotek.

BCA Industries in Milwaukee is a metal fabrication job shop, but it also makes its own tire and waste shredders and dabbles in dozens of other fields.

Last year had the greatest number of announced food and beverage mergers and acquisitions nationwide since 2007, according to Food and Beverage Industry Snapshot, a recent report by Grant Thornton Corporate Finance.

The stock market rose today as Chrysler Corp. reported its best quarterly profit in 13 years.