Industries

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.

Baird Capital Partners (BCP), the U.S.-based buyout fund of Baird Private Equity, announced today that its portfolio company American Auto Auction Group LLC (AAAG) has acquired Badger State Auto Auctions Inc.

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele will convene a meeting of a Park East Corridor Advisory Committee on Tuesday, June 19, at 9:30 a.m.