Industries

Pewaukee financial advisory firm Ellenbecker Investment Group has launched a Money Sense Smartphone app, making it one of the first financial planning and consulting firms to do so.

The new edition of the BizTimes Milwaukee magazine takes an in-depth look at The Corners, the $150 million retail and residential development planned by the Marcus Corp. at the former West Point Cinema site and the former Menard's store site at the intersection of I-94, Barker Road and Bluemound Road in the Town of Brookfield.

Wixon, a St. Francis flavorings manufacturer, will host its 20th annual Wixon Open on Saturday, July 14 at 7:30 a.m. at the Bristol Oaks Country Club in Bristol.

Johnson Controls Inc., the world's leading supplier of automotive batteries, participated in a signing ceremony in Tianjin, China, to announce a planned $200 million automotive battery plant, pending final approval.

Modest gains were posted in metro area economic indicators for April as 12 of 23 monthly indicators tracked by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) improved from year-ago levels.

The board of directors of Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. authorized the company to expend up to an additional $1 billion to repurchase shares of the company's common stock.

Four train sets have been manufactured and are being readied for service at Talgo Inc. in Milwaukee. Two will be sent to Oregon, but the other two trains could be mothballed.

A team of developers and city officials on Thursday ceremonially broke ground in Madison on a $39 million redevelopment project along East Washington Avenue.

Ridge Community Church has an accepted offer to purchase the existing WalMart property, in Greenfield at 4500 S. 108th St. and wants to convert a majority of the 110,000-square-foot building into space used for church-based functions, according to a report by GreenfieldPatch.com.