Industries

Will Allen, CEO of Milwaukee-based urban farming nonprofit Growing Power, recently was a guest on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”

Union officials on Wednesday blasted Piggly Wiggly Midwest's plans to close its south-side Sheboygan store, calling it a "despicable" move aimed at "retaliating" against union employees and evading a recent court order that found the company had violated federal labor laws.

Donald Driver, all-time leading receiver for the Green Bay Packers and the 2012 Dancing with the Stars champion, will make an appearance at the 2012 campaign finale for the United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) on Tuesday, June 26.

Menomonee Falls-based ZBB Energy Corp., a developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 31.6 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of 38 cents per share.

Lindsey Bovinet, chairman of Interior Systems Inc. (ISI), plans to acquire the vacant former Eisner American Museum of Advertising and Design building in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.

The board of directors at Rogers Behavioral Health System Inc. in Oconomowoc announced that Patrick Hammer has accepted the position as president and chief executive officer. Hammer will officially take the helm when current president and CEO, David Mouthrop, retires at the end of August.

Chris Wiser, founder and chief executive officer of Brookfield-based TechSquad, has been named to this year’s SMB 150 Channel Influencers List.

Alterra Coffee and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee will kick off the 2012 Música del Lago concert series at Alterra’s lakefront café tonight.

The Marquette Neighborhood Health Center, a part of the College of Nursing, started a certified nurse-midwife practice on June 1.