Industries

Kenosha-based tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc. has acquired Challenger Lifts Inc. for about $38 million in cash.

Platypus Advertising + Design announced today that it is acquiring the assets and most employees at NOISE Inc.'s Milwaukee operation.

Nationally recognized government scholar and pollster Charles Franklin is joining Marquette University Law School on a full-time basis, and the school will continue its groundbreaking Marquette Law School Poll into the future, the Rev. Scott Pilarz, S.J., university president, announced.

Appleton Papers announced today it has changed its name to Appvion Inc.

An investors group consisting of developer Joshua Jeffers, the owner of J. Jeffers & Co., Shelley Lamoreaux of the North Shore Arsenal Soccer Club and John Lamoreaux, the owner of Ticket King, plan to purchase a 25,000-square-foot building at 2920 W. Vera Ave. in Glendale, which they will convert into an indoor sports complex called Inbounds Training.

The ownership group of Schlitz Park in downtown Milwaukee is seeking a $900,000 loan from the Milwaukee Economic Development Corp. (MEDC) to renovate 50,000 square feet of space in its RiverCenter building.

Readers of the BizTimes Manufacturing Weekly are invited to attend the ninth annual BizExpo.

SABMiller plc and Molson Coors Brewing Company reported first quarter net income of $271.9 million for Chicago-based MillerCoors LLC, a decrease of 1.2 percent compared to the 2012 first quarter.

AptarGroup Inc., a dispenser manufacturing company based in Crystal Lake, Ill., announced it will invest $50 million in its Mukwonago manufacturing facility.

MRPC, a Butler-based single-source provider of medical device components and assemblies, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on May 14 for a 15,000-square-foot addition to its 85,000-square-foot facility at 13161 W. Glendale Ave.