Industries

East Troy-based Erik Buell Racing has opened an office in the Netherlands to help expand distribution and overall brand awareness of its motorcycles across Europe.

The Donors Forum of Wisconsin announced that Jill Van Calster has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the organization.

An affiliate of Warwick, R.I.-based Magna Hospitality Group LLC, a hotel real estate investment firm, recently purchased the 138-room Hampton Inn & Suites hotel in downtown Milwaukee for $8,289,100, according to state records.

Back in the 1970s, 25 percent of the American workforce counted on a union card to guarantee their household a place in the middle class. Blame technology, globalization or even the oil embargo, but union membership has declined as the service economy evolved. Now, standing between American households and a middle class lifestyle is a college diploma, yet only 30 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds have a bachelor's degree.

Glendale-based AmeriSign & Graphics, a full-service sign, design, digital imaging and offset printing company, announced that it has changed its name to Brilliant DPI.

Suzy's Cream Cheesecakes Inc., a producer of cheesecakes and other desserts, is considering plans to move from St. Francis to Oak Creek.

Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. has added two commercial engine experts to its Commercial Power sales team.

Milwaukee-based HellermannTyton North America plans to expand its Good Hope Road manufacturing facility by at least 50,000 square feet and add up to 125 jobs in the next five years.

Xtreme Stainless LLC, a metal fabrication firm located in Sussex, plans to move to a proposed 16,128-square-foot industrial building that would be built on a vacant 5.65-acre site at N194 W11055 Kleinmann Dr. in Germantown.