Doyle honors top exporters
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle recently announced the recipients of the Governor’s Export Achievement Awards. They are:
- Small Agricultural Exporter – Main Street Ingredients LLC in La Crosse.
- Large Agricultural Exporter – Foremost Farms USA in Baraboo.
- Agriculture Export Plus – Sanimax in Green Bay.
- Small Manufacturing Exporter – Extrusion Dies Industries LLC in Chippewa Falls.
- Large Manufacturing Exporter – Appleton in Appleton.
- Manufacturing Export Plus – Rite-Hite Corp. in Milwaukee.
- High Tech Exporter – Criticare Systems Inc. in Waukesha.
- Export Assistance Provider – World Dairy Expo Inc. in Madison.
World Trade Wisconsin to visit White House
Christian Bartley, CEO and Christen Pechman, chief operating officer, of the World Trade Center Wisconsin will visit the White House and the US Chamber of Commerce tomorrow, after a week-long session in Washington, D.C., organized in conjunction with the Wisconsin Procurement Institute’s annual "Week in Washington". Tomorrow’s event will include President George W. Bush, US Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and other officials are scheduled to take part in tomorrow’s session.
During the trip, Wisconsin and Minnesota companies spend several days learining about the federal procurement process. World Trade Center Wisconsin helped create an international procurement educational component to this year’s trip and also discussed trade issues relevant to Wisconsin with state officials in Congress.
LPI earns industry awards
Letterhead Press, Inc. (LPI) of New Berlin, WI has earned a total of 34 awards for outstanding achievement in 2008 regional and national graphics competitions.
- PIW, Printing Industries of Wisconsin – 27 Awards
- FSEA, Foil Stamping & Embossing Association – 6 Awards
- FiberMark, Inc. – 1 Award
“We are very proud of the focused energy and dedication of our winning team,” said Chandler Young, Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “LPI has been a long time active member and supporter of industry organizations and it is an honor to be recognized by them as a company that is innovative, customer focused and one that produces world class quality materials.”
