Industries

Employees at Caterpillar's South Milwaukee plant were notified Friday, June 14, that planned layoffs of 260 employees would go into effect on Monday, June 24.

We are about 100 days out from the Wisconsin insurance exchange (aka marketplace) going "live" on Oct. 1, and the number one priority for a lot of stakeholders must be to work hard to make it successful.

Busy readers of the BizTimes Daily can get a jumpstart on the Polish Fest weekend ahead by reading the OnMilwaukee.com Weekend Preview.

ZBB Energy Corp., a Menomonee Falls-based developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms and hybrid vehicle control systems, announced that president and chief executive officer Eric Apfelbach has been invited for the second consecutive year to serve the Clinton Global Initiative as a member of the Renewable & Distributed Energy Working Group, which met this morning.

Cudahy-based Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. has opened an outbound service center Kansas City, Mo., expanding the company’s footprint to include Kansas, Nebraska and western Missouri.

Rust-Oleum to plans to invest $1.3 million to upgrade its Pleasant Prairie plant expand its small batch spray paint production.
The expansion will create 54 new jobs.

Milwaukee-based Zilber Ltd. announced today that it plans to build a 202-home, $100 million development on a-50 acre site in Maui that it acquired recently from Honolulu-based The Mills Group.

*Friday, June 14, the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) will unveil a new exhibit titled “30 Americans,” which features 31...

BizTimes Media’s third annual Giving Guide offers southeastern Wisconsin’s business community an outlet to connect with area nonprofit organizations for philanthropic involvement. The Giving Guide features the missions, volunteer opportunities and giving opportunities of more than 30 regional nonprofits providing a spectrum of services and resources to residents in need.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Wisconsin Chapter recently celebrated the fundraising success of its 2013 “Milwaukee's Finest” campaign, which generated more than $30,000.