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Higher health care costs and the increased public awareness of health care issues, brought about by the debate surrounding the Obama administration's health care reform policies, make now an ideal time for companies to focus on wellness, according to Dr. Thomas Van Gilder, Wisconsin market vice president and medical officer at Humana.

Despite the looming uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act and other aspects of health care reform, employers and employees are still faced with difficult decisions on how to deal with rising health care costs.

Shouldn’t mission statements be exciting and compelling? Isn’t a mission all about heart and emotion, about caring and helping, about being human?

The Bank of Montreal recently conducted its 194th annual meeting of shareholders, where it reflected on a record year of double-digit revenues and earnings growth.

The top Wisconsin property and casualty insurance companies, ranked by market share of direct premiums written in the state,...

My previous Dispatch talked about China's growing taste for "Made in America." This Dispatch will cite one specific case where an American company seems to be doing what it takes to "make it in China."

Congress has given many business owners an incredible tax bonus by increasing the lifetime gift tax exemption amount to more than $5 million, but only until the end of this year. Barring additional legislative action, that exemption will expire and be reduced to only $1 million. This gift tax exemption level provides many business owners an unprecedented opportunity to pass on the family business free of exposure to wealth transfer taxes.

Stephanie Soerens, general manager of Soerens Ford in Brookfield, started gardening with her mother when she was young. Now Soerens, age 31, has taken her love for gardening to new heights.