THE NEWSROOM

Add your voice to the conversation, as business and community leaders, academics, economic development professionals and others gather Sept. 20-21 in Appleton at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s (WEDC’s) first economic summit. “WEDC’s mission is to...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will launch a new business innovation incubator this fall to help prepare 10 startups for angel and venture capital funding. The incubator was formed through a partnership between UWM and local angel investing group Milwaukee Venture...

Experis Game Solutions is planning on opening a fourth location dedicated to testing video games and devices, within the ManpowerGroup headquarters building at 100 W. Manpower Place in downtown Milwaukee. The other three locations are in Portland, Oregon; Bellevue,...

The Fitchburg City Council is poised to consider using a dynamic public financing tool to pave the way for a future medical technology campus off of Highway 14. Mayor Aaron Richardson wants to create a tax incremental financing (TIF) district to develop an...

Nishant Deshpande was a dedicated saver all through college, socking away money from his internships at Robert W. Baird & Co. and other businesses. So in his senior year at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and with more than four years of regular deposits into...

UnitedHealthcare promises to reduce southeast Wisconsin employers’ health insurance rates by 8% to 13% — and trim employee out-of-pocket costs — if they enroll in a new network that includes Advocate Aurora, Froedtert Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin and...

Sometimes you have to look back and see how far you’ve come in order to realize what you’ve accomplished. That’s been the case for Khalif El-Amin and his brother Que El-Amin, who 10 years ago founded the Young Enterprising Society, a Milwaukee group that’s exposed...

The Water Council is pleased to announce the winners of its spring 2022 Tech Challenge, chosen by industry leaders to help solve real challenges in the water sector. The Water Council’s Tech Challenge connects water innovators with leading water technology companies,...

The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) preliminary employment estimates for the month of June 2022. Wisconsin's unemployment rate remained at 2.9 percent in June. The state added 45,100 total nonfarm jobs...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Chad Mason, founder and CEO of Advanced Ionics. The company has developed a new class of existing devices called electrolyzers, which are used to decarbonize hydrogen production for industrial applications....

Georgia-Pacific has broken ground on a $500 million expansion to its mill in Green Bay, expected to be complete in 2024. Speaking yesterday at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Broadway Mill expansion, company executive Kim Burns highlighted the expected impact of...

An expert in sustainability says investors can benefit from the global transition to net-zero carbon through investments in “clean technology” clusters. “A lot of money is going to be spent on that net-zero transition,” Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council founder...

UnitedHealthcare, which is one of the top health insurers in Wisconsin and nationwide, said it will eliminate copays and out-of-pocket payments for insulin, epinephrine and other emergency-use medicines, starting next year for certain group plans. The new feature will...

After a major drop at the start of the pandemic, employment levels in Wisconsin have bounced back to only slightly below pre-COVID levels. But a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows the workforce landscape has changed. Ari Brown, senior research associate...

Thirty companies have been selected as finalists for the 2022 Wisconsin Innovation Awards. In total, more than 300 businesses, products and services from around the state were nominated. The finalists were determined by a panel of 19 statewide industry experts, with...

Wisconsin’s largest utility company has received approval to replace some of its natural gas supply with renewable methane from local farms, which could present new opportunities for the burgeoning alternative fuel industry. The Public Service Commission voted...

Employment in the state’s transportation and warehousing sector expanded twice as fast as any other sector over 2020 and 2021, a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report shows. The group’s latest report highlights the state’s jobs picture over this two-year period, showing...