Industries

Associated Banc-Corp has hired Randall J. Erickson as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for the corporation, Associated Bank, National Association and Associated Trust Company, National Association.

The Charles Schwab Corporation has opened a new, independent branch in Mequon. It is one of the first franchised locations opened since the company decided to franchise in early 2011.

SPX Corp. revealed its newly completed manufacturing facility addition in Waukesha last week. The $70 million project will create more than 200 jobs in the company’s Transformer Solutions division.

The Italian Community Center’s plans for its massive property in the midst of Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward could be a game-changer for the neighborhood.

Home improvement retailers and fabricators indicate that 20 percent of the industry's $155 billion in retail business comes from installed sales, or consumers who shop retail locations and purchase cabinets, countertops or other home improvement products that are later installed in their home.

Telcom & Data Inc., located in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood, has been successful because it has continued to adapt...

Initiatives to attract major commercial real estate development to two adjacent sites near Milwaukee's lakefront are moving forward. The...

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BizTimes Media LLC has announced the winners of its 2012 Bravo! Entrepreneur Awards and IQ (Innovation Quotient) Awards.

Amiran Technologies LLC, an Oak Creek-based company that says it has developed cutting-edge processes to remove contamination from polluted materials, announced that it will build a $12 million plant in Maria Stein, Ohio, to process swine, poultry and dairy livestock manure into dry organic fertilizer for commercial sale. The fertilizer will be pathogen and e coli free, and will be priced competitively with synthetic fertilizers on the market, the company says.