Industries

More than 500 meeting planners from associations all over the country will visit Milwaukee this week for the Connect Marketplace conference to be held Thursday through Saturday.

Wisconsin would cut more people from Medicaid than any other state as part of a plan advanced by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, according to an independent analysis of data by Kaiser Health News.

Milwaukee-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of $55.0 million, or $1.17 per share, compared with a net loss of $8.4 million, or 18 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Euro Plus, the developer of NiceLabel software, announced it has acquired all of the assets of Brookfield-based Niceware International through its subsidiary NiceLabel Americas Inc.

Minority-owned American banks are more generous with their customers when it comes to interest rates on certificates of deposit, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Cudahy-based Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. has acquired the assets of the Southeast Drayage division of Transport Corporation of America Inc., a provider of intermodal transportation and related services in the Southeast.

Bank Mutual Corp. announced the appointment of Jeanne Zeske to vice president of commercial banking for southeastern Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Association of Mutual Insurance Companies will host its 100th annual convention from Sunday, September 8 to Tuesday, September 10 at the Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee.

National mergers and acquisitions activity was mostly flat in the Americas for the first half of the year, according to a report from Mergermarket and Merrill DataSite.

Pewaukee-based Waterstone Mortgage Corp. has been approved as a Ginnie Mae issuer for the Ginnie Mae I and II single-family mortgage-backed securities program.