Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. today reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of $16.5 million, or 23 cents per share, compared with a net profit of $41.4 million, or 55 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc. announced today it has expanded and extended its agreement with Gannett Co. Inc. to print copies of USA Weekend, a Sunday magazine inserted into more than 700 newspapers.

“The South Shore Option 2.0” will be the theme of a public form to promote economic development on the south side of Milwaukee County tonight.

Jimmy John Liautaud is moving part of the sandwich chain that bears his name to Florida next year, making good on a threat issued in 2011 after Illinois hiked its corporate tax rate.

Waukegan-based Vista Health System is reviving its plan for a new, $131 million hospital in nearby Lindenhurst, setting the stage for another bruising battle over a major health care construction project.

Janesville-based J.P. Cullen & Sons Inc. has been awarded a $36.4 million contract to build the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences in Milwaukee.

At breakfast with my 13-year-old daughter Chloe and her friend, a baffling question was posed. Chloe's friend asked, "Can I get the vegetarian omelet...but with ham?"

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.’s plans for a new office building to replace the 16-story, 451,964-square-foot East Building on its downtown campus appear to be focused downtown, rather than at its Franklin campus.

Milwaukee-based Mandel Group Inc. announced recently that it has successfully completed the sellout of two downtown condominium developments, The Point on the River and Rivercrest.

Jackson Street Management LLC, the group of hotel development investors that are building the 204-room Marriott Hotel under construction downtown and developed the 160-room Aloft hotel in the Park East corridor downtown, are planning to build another hotel.

Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc. today announced that it plans to open a 36,000-square-foot Nordstrom Rack store in the proposed Mayfair Collection development in Wauwatosa.

Willis North America, a unit of London-based Willis Group Holdings, a global insurance broker, announced today that it plans to move its Milwaukee area office from 2323 N. Mayfair Road in Wauwatosa, to a 26,000-square-foot office space at 400 N. Executive Dr. in Brookfield. The new office will open on Oct. 29.