Strattec Security Corp. reported fiscal second quarter net income of $2.4 million, or 70 cents per share, up from $1.5 million, or 47 cents per share, for the same period a year ago.

Briggs & Stratton Corp. chairman, president and chief executive officer Todd Teske was re-elected chairman of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the state's chamber of commerce and largest business association, in a vote of the WMC Board.

Exhibit Systems has moved from Menomonee Falls to a larger production and office facility in Brookfield.

Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. reported that its fiscal second quarter net sales increased 2 percent to $439.1 million.

Lower demand from customers in the pressure pumping sector of the North American oil and gas industries put a dent in the second quarter profits for Racine-based Twin Disc Inc.

Harley-Davidson Motor Co. was honored as the Menomonee Falls Chamber of Commerce Inc. Business of the Year at the organization's annual banquet on Thursday, Jan., 24, at Davians Banquet and Conference Center.

The stock market clung to meager gains this morning as investors exhaled after rallying the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 to five-year highs on Friday.

Hartland-based Batteries Plus continues to expand with 46 new stores in 2012 and signed agreements to open 59 new stores in the future.

Baird Private Equity, the direct private investment arm of Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., today unveiled an updated strategic brand that includes the new name of Baird Capital.

The preferred stock and subordinated debt positions of Waukesha-based bank holding company Waukesha Bankshares Inc. will be auctioned today and tomorrow as part of the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program’s Capital Purchase Program.

Many manufacturers struggle to maintain their competitive positions in regional and global markets that are changing faster than ever.

Repairers of the Breach, a daytime shelter and resource facility for homeless residents of Milwaukee, remained open 24 hours yesterday due to dropping temperatures.