Real estate tech company Zillow Group Inc. has acquired VRX Media, a real estate marketing company based in Milwaukee. The acquisition, announced Thursday, is meant to strengthen Seattle-based Zillow's real estate software brand ShowingTime+, a...
Stella & Chewy's LLC has struck a deal with San Diego-based Petco Health and Wellness Company Inc. that will put products from the Oak Creek premium pet food company into Petco stores in all 50 states. Petco (Nasdaq: WOOF), which has more than 1,500...
The Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. in Chippewa Falls ranked in USA Today's top 10 brewery tours in America. The brewery, known for the popular Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy beer, ranked No. 8. The ranking highlighted the two options for brewery tours —...
Rockwell Automation, which is targeting electric-vehicle manufacturers and suppliers as a growth market, hit a bullseye via a contract for Hyundai Motor Co.’s planned $5.5 billion electric vehicle and battery plant in Georgia. Rockwell Automation...
Financial technology and payments firm Fiserv Inc. is moving its global headquarters and hundreds of jobs from Brookfield to downtown Milwaukee, the company announced Thursday. The global headquarters project, which will include the addition of 250...
A lease with growing Milwaukee call center marketing firm Atlas MKE helped a riverside Third Ward office building bounce from 30% to 90% occupancy after losing tenants earlier this year. Atlas MKE is taking over 12,200 square feet at 215 N. Water St.,...
MKE Tech Week 2022, organized by the nonprofit Milwaukee membership group the MKE Tech Hub Coalition, included more than 40 events across the city throughout the first week of October. Here are some snapshots of just a few of the events....
From l. to r.: PNC Bank Regional President Chris Hermann (representing M7), Franklin Mayor Steve Olson, Niche Founder Edmund Poku, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Marisa Lago, WEDC CEO Missy Hughes, Omanhene Cocoa Founder Steve Wallace On Tuesday,...
Niche Cocoa Industry Ltd. of Ghana is building its first North American manufacturing facility in Franklin in what is the largest food and beverage investment by an African company in U.S. history. Representatives of Niche Cocoa joined local and...
Founded in 1988 in a home garage in Ozaukee County, Matrix Packaging Machinery’s equipment is now used in food distribution across the continent, and it is growing in Grafton to continue manufacturing all of its proprietary machine components in...
A Massachusetts 3D printing company has opened a sales and service office in the Third Ward that is expected to grow to 150 employees in the next three years. Formlabs, launched in 2011, has grown to become the largest maker of benchtop 3D printers....
After its planned flagship plant with 250 jobs in Oak Creek became public, Thrive Foods on Friday received an email from a Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. official saying “we’re honored and happy that we are your state of choice.” That’s...
It’s been almost a decade since The Water Council opened its Global Water Center at 247 Freshwater Way in Milwaukee, a facility dedicated to making the city and region the “Silicon Valley” of freshwater research and technology. While The Water...
Today Milwaukee Tool held a special event with state and local officials to celebrate the grand opening of the company’s newest manufacturing plant in West Bend. Located 20 minutes from Milwaukee Tool’s global R&D headquarters in Brookfield, the...
A delegation of 50 Milwaukeeans cheered the city’s coronation Friday for hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention as the party’s national committee finalized the decision during meetings in downtown Chicago. Republican National Committee...
Materion Corp., an advanced materials company in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, is establishing a facility on Milwaukee's northwest side to accelerate the growth of advanced chemicals for the semiconductor and electric vehicle battery markets. The...
Westown, Haymarket and Greenfield were favorites for development among real estate executives at real estate CEO roundtable on Tuesday as they expressed mixed feelings between suburban and downtown investments. Speakers also discussed their reasoning...
Department store chain Kohl's Corp. will open its first downtown Milwaukee store in fall of 2023 in the space of former competitor Boston Store. Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) will open a roughly 40,000-square-foot, smaller-format store in the Hub640 building at...
The Wacker Neuson Group will add 200 employees and invest over $10 million in its Menomonee Falls plant as a result of expanding its business relationship with John Deere for manufacturing excavators. The companies announced their agreement in June...
With the role of coal diminishing in the world’s energy future, why would Komatsu Mining Corp. — which is historically known for manufacturing coal-mining equipment — invest $285 million in a new plant and offices in Milwaukee? The answer is that the...
Global Schoolwear plans to expand its business distributing Tommy Hilfiger-branded uniforms with a proposed new facility in Oak Creek that would eventually take over operations currently in Illinois. That facility could grow to have about 100 workers...
Omron Corp. has gifted over $1 million to Marquette University to establish an Omron Advanced Automation Lab in the university’s Opus College of Engineering. The lab will combine innovative industrial automation and robotics technology with supply...
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., working with the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership Network (including WMEP Manufacturing Solutions), is offering the Wisconsin Automation Implementation Grant to help lower the risk of automation...
Waukesha-based engineering and manufacturing company Husco has been awarded a $113 million contract with a North American automaker to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. The $113 million will be paid over multiple years with the unnamed...
Merz North America, Inc., an aesthetics and neurotoxin manufacturer, is expanding its facilities in Sturtevant and Franksville – an $8 million project expected to create 35 jobs over the next three years. “Merz has a global presence in its industry...
MSN TravelAwait's ranked Milwaukee second on its list of the 12 favorite U.S. cities. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson shared the list on his Twitter Tuesday.MSN TravelAwaits highlighted several key attractions to Milwaukee including its nickname as...
Manufacturing technology startup PartsBadger LLC landed a five-year contract worth at least $13.8 million with Colorado-based mountain bike maker Yeti Cycles that will create Milwaukee-area jobs and accelerate PartsBadger's need for a larger local...
Milwaukee Tool announced today at an event with Gov. Evers and Missy Hughes, Secretary of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., that the company will invest $206 million and create 1,000 new jobs in Wisconsin. Milwaukee Tool continues to...
Casting Cleaning Resources, an Indiana-based manufacturer that serves the foundry industry, is expanding its operations to Menomonee Falls, state and company officials announced today. Casting Cleaning Resources provides post-mold cleaning of iron...
The African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee, known as AALAM, has a goal for Milwaukee to become the global destination of choice for Africans Americans by 2025. "We know that Milwaukee has a lot of negative data points and metrics relative to...