A.C. Zuckerman Jewelers has been named the Mequon-Thiensville Small Business of the Year by the Mequon-Thiensville Chamber of Commerce.

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A confluence of factors are converging to fuel growing speculation on Wall Street that Milwaukee-based Joy Global Inc. is becoming an inviting acquisition target.

As a rapidly growing platform, Twitter provides a direct, unfiltered line of communication that enables businesses to reach out to users who are engaged and constantly listening.

New casinos proposed for Kenosha, Sheboygan, Beloit and Shullsburg would mostly pull gamblers away from other parts of Wisconsin and be of no significant overall benefit to state coffers, according to a new study by a University of Wisconsin-Green Bay professor for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI).

What was the smartest thing your company did in the past year? "We listened to our customers. We...

The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is forecasting a 3.0-percent sales increase for the traditional November-December holiday period...

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Before Jim Oppermann met his wife, Mary Sue, he had never stepped foot on a farm. Now, after 34...

Working longer in order to build up your Social Security benefits and your retirement savings is an extremely powerful way to make your retirement more secure. If you are married and you are the primary breadwinner, working longer and claiming later also secures a larger lifetime income benefit for your surviving spouse.

Janesville-based J.P. Cullen & Sons Inc. has been awarded a $36.4 million contract to build a new 92,600-square-foot facility for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences at 600 E. Greenfield Ave., Milwaukee. It will be built adjacent to the current Great Lakes Water Institute. The new facility will provide multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research space, core facilities, collaborative space and teaching and instructional spaces. The addition will house the Center for Water Policy, Great Lakes Genomics Center, laboratories for researchers and students, classrooms, quarantine facilities to allow research students to acquire aquatic organisms from the Great Lakes, and will serve as a substantial expansion of the School of Freshwater Sciences aquaculture labs.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships -and sealing-wax...