Industries

Remember a couple of decades when 75,000 miles on a car was time to trade it in? Now, it's not unusual for an owner to drive a car for 200,000 miles.

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. announced a net loss of $8.7 million for its fiscal second quarter, an improvement from a $90 million net loss from the previous fiscal second quarter.

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce will host “Manufacturing: Powering Wisconsin, the United States and the World” on Friday, March 1, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

East Troy-based Wisconsin Oven Corp. has moved its assembly work to a 27,000-square-foot facility in Waukesha.

The Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership will host its annual Manufacturing Matters conference on Thursday, February 28 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hyatt Hotel in Milwaukee.

*Now through Thursday, Feb. 28, Stan’s Fit For Your Feet is hosting its seventh annual “Share-A-Pair” shoe drive. Interested...

The Harley-Davidson Foundation’s charitable giving topped $4.5 million in 2012, highlighted by a $200,000 grant to Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity for its Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative focused on the Washington Park neighborhood.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced he will allocate a $2.3 million investment in funding from a federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant for the Boys & Girls Club in his upcoming budget.

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp announced Tuesday that it donated more than $611,000 to United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s 2012 fundraising campaign through employee contributions and corporate gifts.

An anonymous donor has given the Aurora Health Care Foundation $500,000 to expand cardiac research at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee.