Industries

Brown Deer-based Badger Meter Inc. has agreed to acquire its Denver-based distributor National Meter and Automation Inc. through a stock purchase.

The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin Inc. has created a new LLC that is seeking a $50,000 loan from the Milwaukee Economic Development Corp. to bolster the revolving loan fund pool it is developing.

Premier Real Estate Management LLC, an apartment management and development company, plans to build a new 11,141-square-foot, two-story office building on a 2.3-acre site at 3120 Gateway Road in the Gateway West Office Park in Brookfield.

A long vacant site in the Menomonee Valley where Lakefront Brewery Inc. had recently considered plans to build a brewery, and where Allen Edmonds Corp. several years ago had planned to build a factory, has been put on the market for sale.

Wauwatosa-based real estate development firm Wangard Partners Inc. plans to build a two-building, $14 million industrial space development on the former Yellow Freight Truck terminal sites at 11525 and 11406 W. Rogers St. in West Allis.

Menomonee Falls-based MGI Communications has acquired Brookfield-based KW Advertising.

Milwaukee-based Douglas Dynamics Inc. reported second quarter net income of $14.6 million, or 64 cents per share, up sharply from $5.9 million, or 26 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2013.

A panel of accomplished chief executive officers will discuss the challenges and opportunities for competing in a global economy at the 2014 BizTimes Manufacturing Summit.

MillerCoors reported second quarter net income of $451 million, up from $416.7 million in the second quarter of 2013.

Milwaukee-based Rexnord Corp. reported fiscal 2015 first quarter net income of $12 million, or 11 cents per share, down from $13.6 million, or 14 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2014.