Silgan Containers will eliminate 38 jobs at its plant in Menomonee Falls at N90 W14600 Commerce Drive.

Milwaukee-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. announced it will complete its delivery of nearly $1 million in donated generators and pressure washers to an additional 58 American Red Cross chapters nationwide.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. announced today it is buying most of Brazilian insurer and hospital operator Amil Participacoes SA for $4.9 billion.

HSA Acquisitions Inc., a division of Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate, announced today it has Inc. has purchased a 24,178-square-foot outpatient clinic occupied by Aurora Health Care in Muskego.

Quad/Graphics Inc. announced today it has reached a new $900 million-plus agreement with Time Inc. that significantly extends and expands its magazine print work for the New York publisher.

APS Healthcare announced it will lay off 133 employees in Brookfield as a result of the acquisition of the company by Universal American Corp.

Gov. Scott Walker will host the second annual Governor’s Small Business Summit on Thursday, Nov. 8, at the La Crosse Center in La Crosse.

Nominations are being accepted for the 2013 Wisconsin Small Business Administration (SBA) Business Awards.

As Americans, we take pride in making things. We also have gotten pretty good at wallowing in things, as well. While there is no doubt the United States faces some significant challenges – many of our own making and some a result of external factors – we seem obsessed these days with proving we understand just how bad things are.

Marlene Doerr Kreilkamp, Executive Director of Milwaukee-based SHARP Literacy, Inc., has been recognized with the 2012 Social Innovation Prize in Wisconsin for her creative efforts in improving students’ reading skills throughout Milwaukee schools.

In celebration of its 140th anniversary, Roundy's Supermarkets, headquartered in Milwaukee, will devote a week in October to community outreach efforts in gratitude to the customer base that has largely contributed to its development.

Brewers’ second baseman Rickie Weeks has donated $25,000 to the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee to help fund its Swim School, a program based at the Northside YMCA that teaches kids the importance of water safety.