Allied Plastics Inc.
Allied Plastics Inc., a Twin Lakes-based plastic thermoforming company, has experienced significant growth in recent years, in large part because of a shift in business from packaging to OEM (original equipment manufacturer) work.
Craig Deaton is Entrepreneur of the Year
Craig Deaton was determined to start his own business, in his own way, back in 1983 when he founded Gateway Mortgage Corp.
GEM Manufacturing Inc. is Small Business of the Year
Bristol-based GEM Manufacturing Inc. has nearly doubled its manufacturing space and its workforce in the past two years.
Xten is the Kenosha County Business of the Year
Xten Industries LLC is so named because the company aims to be an extension of its customers' businesses.
Kenosha County Business Excellence Awards
Kenosha County's economic diversification and revitalization has been two decades in the making. An economy once dominated by automobile manufacturing has become considerably more diverse and resilient.
Now is a great time to transfer wealth
Business owners are taking advantage of the combination of historic highs for estate and gift tax exemptions, low business and investment valuations and extremely low interest rates to transfer and protect wealth – and uncertainty in the long-term stability of the estate and gift tax laws has many considering whether the time to act is now.
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Employee benefits firm offers employee money management program
An employee with personal financial problems spends an average of 20 work hours per month dealing with them, according to Personal Finance Employee Education Foundation, a financial literacy nonprofit organization.
Biz Notes
Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc. was recently named a "Best in Class" mobile banking provider for the second year in a row in Javelin Strategy & Research group's "2011 - 2012 Mobile Banking Vendor Scorecard."
Gen Y leadership strategies
Recently I spoke to a group of HR Leaders at the statewide SHRM Conference in Madison about attracting, leading and retaining Gen Y employees. I'm intrigued by the number of leaders who, as we talk about the differences in the emerging workforce, well, they just kind of shake their heads in disapproval. This is fairly common.
The relationship myth
Most who know me would not call me a cold, heartless, task-driven S.O.B. In fact, I always end up solidly in the "amiable" quadrant on those personality tests. So what I'm about to say goes against my very constitution.
