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The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. has announced it will make its trade representatives for 16 international markets available for one-on-one meetings at the Wisconsin International Trade Conference on Thursday.

David Kohler will succeed his father, Herbert Kohler Jr., as the next chief executive officer of Kohler Co.

The full-time employee turnover rate among Midwestern manufacturing companies is about 18 percent, according to new survey from MRA-The Management Association.

A key measure of Milwaukee-area manufacturing activity indicated contraction in April. The seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers Index was below 50 for the first time since April 2014, according to the Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing.

Arrowhead High School in Hartland plans to open a new 10,000-square-foot manufacturing and engineering center at the start of the new school year on Sept 1.

Exact Sciences Corp., one of the fastest-growing companies in Wisconsin, plans to move its corporate headquartes to a $125 million development proposed by Brookfield-based Hammes Co. and City of Industry, Calif.-based Majestic Realty Co. for the Judge Doyle Square site in downtown Madison.

Milwaukee-based Baird Capital, the direct private investment division of Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., has acquired SloanLED through its U.S. private equity group.

Launch Milwaukee, a weekend competition for hardware and software engineers, entrepreneurs and designers, will be held from June 5 to 7 at Ward 4, a collaboration space in the Historic Pritzlaff building near downtown Milwaukee.

*Tuesday, May 5, the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network’s Greater Milwaukee Chapter will hold its May Nonprofit Resource Exchange. The...