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Combined, the companies being honored in the 2013 Waukesha County Business Alliance's Top 10 Businesses of the Year program generate annual revenues of more than $288 million and employ more than 1,728 people.

Prior to the Great Recession, developer Peter Bell's 1,500-acre Pabst Farms development in Oconomowoc included plans for a 1 million-square-foot upscale regional shopping center, called the Pabst Farms Town Centre, northeast of I-94 and Highway 67.

Toppers Pizza, a Whitewater-based pizza delivery chain founded in 1993, has experienced significant growth in recent years and has big plans to become a national brand.

Construction began recently for a $4.5 million, 31-unit townhouse project, being built by developers Tim Gokhman and Ann Shuk, in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood.

Retirement plan setup and maintenance can prove to be a confusing and costly undertaking for any small business. Small business owners looking for a low-cost, low-maintenance opportunity to establish a retirement plan can utilize the Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) or Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plan rules to take advantage of valuable tax savings today while providing a future benefit for themselves and their employees at retirement.

While the traditional anniversary gift often includes some sort of diamond-studded bracelet or necklace, Grant Sommer presented his wife, Laura, with a much bigger rock for their anniversary this year.

What would you think if I told you there was a social media network that had 359 million active individual users (up 33 percent in less than a year) and 135 million business listings, and yet nobody you knew was using it? Would you be excited to use it? What if I told you it was managed by the biggest search engine out there and that they were pouring resources into integrating it into every service they owned?