Glendale-based Chameleon Brewing Company, subsidiary of Sprecher Brewing Company, has won an award for its Witty, a Belgian white wheat ale with spices.

One of my favorite pop quizzes for people outside Wisconsin, especially those who understand the tech-based economy, is to ask them to name the nation’s top five academic research universities. The answers invariably include the likes of Stanford, Yale and Harvard, but rarely does anyone outside the Midwest guess that UW-Madison is perennially on the list.

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. reported fiscal fourth quarter net income of $11.7 million, or 22 cents per share, down from $29.6 million, or 55 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Nashotah-based Dickten Masch Plastics (DMP), a thermoplastics and thermoset manufacturer with metal stamping and assembly capabilities, has acquired Nyloncraft Inc., a technical plastics manufacturer based in Mishawaka, Ind.

Tailored Label Products Inc. of Menomonee Falls has acquired the label products division of Norcross, Ga.-based Stratix Corp.

Harley-Davidson Inc. unveiled the official calendar of its 110th Anniversary Celebration events for the coming year.

BMO Harris Bank today announced it is donating $750,000 over three years to United Way of Greater Milwaukee to promote healthy birth outcomes and reduce the city's infant mortality rate.

Cambridge Major Laboratories (CML) today announced a significant expansion of its large-scale Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing facility in Germantown.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. today announced that the company's recruiting is up 13 percent, putting the company on pace to recruit more than 5,000 financial representatives in 2012.

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek partner John Emanuel has been named secretary/treasurer of the National American Lung Association board of directors.

Sales of existing homes in the metropolitan Milwaukee housing market were up 21 percent in August, compared to the same month a year ago, continuing their strong performance that began in mid-2011.

The downtown Chicago hotel market is gaining momentum as rooms continue to fill up with tourists, business travelers and conventioneers.