BROOKFIELD: Celtic Inc., a marketing and communications agency, branded and created a Web site for wilderness safety organization Buck Tilton. * Wisconsin Lift Truck has been named an authorized distributor for Seegrid Corp., a provider of vision-guided mobile robots for the material handling industry.
BURLINGTON: Hi-Liter Graphics won the Family Friendly Workplace Award from the Racine Area Manufacturers and Commerce.
FRANKLIN: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare opened a $90 million, 275,000-sq.-ft. hospital that includes an 18-room emergency department, surgery center, lab, retail pharmacy, offices and physical therapy center.
GERMANTOWN: MGS Mfg. Group placed its fourth Bekum BM-406D, a fully automated plastic molding machine, at Tec Star Mfg. Co.
KENOSHA: Gateway Technical College, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is working to get a certified geothermal installer program started, and is seeking $2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.
MEQUON: Benefit and retirement producer NFP Benefits Partners, has teamed up with Wisconsin independent insurance agents Fitzgerald, Clayton, James and Kasten.
MILWAUKEE: Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions will test and evaluate lithium-ion batteries made by Maxwell Technologies. * The new David O. Nicholas Applied Finance Lab has opened at the UWMilwaukee. * Baird Capital Partners has acquired Applied Tech Products of Wayne, Pa., and K&W Medical Specialties of Westfield, Pa., to form MedPlast, a health care product manufacturer. * Marketing/communications agency Int�gre won three Bell Awards from the Business Marketing Association. * The Business Marketing Association and the Association for Women in Communications honored the marketing communications firm Scheibel Halaska for its excellence. * The law firm Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. completed the expansion of its downtown office. * The private investment firm Lubar & Co. acquired 50% of Shared Imaging, an Illinois provider of medical imaging systems. * Adelman Travel and Creative Group formed a mutual referral partnership. * Quick Fuel has acquired Garron Oil, which offers mobile refueling services in Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn., and Orlando, Fla., combining the resources of two major commercial fueling companies.
NEW BERLIN: Imperial Visual Communications moved from eastern Milwaukee to an office park in New Berlin.
PEWAUKEE: Francis Investment Counsel LLC has been named one of the Most Successful Retirement Plan Advisors by Plan Sponsor magazine. * The Center for Business Growth now offers one-on-one advising for business owners. * The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission won an award for its surveying and mapping work from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin.
RACINE: Corporate Images Inc. is creating a promotional campaign for the downtown Racine summer trolley service.
STURTEVANT: Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery has relocated its corporate headquarters to a new production facility at 1360 Grandview Parkway.
WALES: Harris Marketing Group has been retained by ARC Pacific and First Federal Bank of Wisconsin as their agency of record to provide all marketing and communication needs.
WEST ALLIS: The tax incremental financing (TIF) district on the former Allis-Chalmers plant property has been dissolved, returning $800,000 to tax rolls.
WEST BEND: Spaulding Clinical Research, a drug-testing company, bought the former St. Joseph's Community hospital building.
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