Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. reported first fiscal quarter net income of $354 million, or 52 cents per share, down from $424 million, or 62 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Milwaukee Tool Corp. is expanding its research and development center in Brookfield with a $6 million investment and a commitment to create 128 new jobs.

CenterPoint WisPark Land Company LLC, a joint venture of Milwaukee-based Wispark LLC and Oak Brook, Ill.-based CenterPoint Properties, plan to build a 471,403-square-foot industrial building in Pleasant Prairie for Taiwan-based Ta Chen International Inc.

Milwaukee-based Super Steel LLC is launching a contract painting division called SS Coaters.

Generation Growth Capital Fund I, LP, a Milwaukee-based private equity fund, has acquired Mica Tool & Manufacturing Inc. of Mukwonago.

Milwaukee-based Vector Technologies Inc. has been acquired by Holden Industries Inc. of Deerfield, Ill.

Briggs & Stratton Corp. announced that three Snapper walk mower models fearing Briggs engines will be sold at Walmart beginning this month.

Mark Taylor, president and chief executive officer for Columbia St. Mary’s Health System, will serve as the next chairman for the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership, a public-private consortium dedicated to improving health care for underserved populations in Milwaukee County.

Green Bay-based Shopko Stores Operating Co. LLC announced that Jill Soltau has been promoted to the position of president and chief merchandising officer.

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