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Business

🔒 The business of blending: How local marketing agencies are adapting through acquisition

Elizabeth Morin October 20, 2025 0 Comment

The local marketing and communications sector has seen an uptick in M&A activity in recent years. During 2025 alone, Brookfield-based Best Version Media, a community publication company, was acquired by a Boston-based...

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Business

🔒 Economic headwinds stall business sales in 2025, but rebound expected in 2026

Elizabeth Morin October 19, 2025 0 Comment

Inflation, tariffs and overall economic uncertainty have stifled the number of business owners looking to sell their companies in 2025. That could soon change as local investment bankers anticipate an influx of sellers in...

2 Minutes

Business

🔒 Cruise ship traffic down at Port Milwaukee this year, but huge increase in activity expected in 2026

Elizabeth Morin October 16, 2025 0 Comment

The 2025 cruise ship season in Milwaukee ended with the city welcoming 11,096 passengers on 22 port calls from six vessels stopping at Port Milwaukee this year. That’s a lower level of cruise ship...

2 Minutes

Finance

Blind Horse winery now open in Cedarburg

Elizabeth Morin October 16, 2025 0 Comment

The Blind Horse Restaurant & Winery recently expanded into Cedarburg following a project that transformed a historic downtown building into an 1,800-square-foot cellar-style tasting room, which opened Oct. 8. Located at W63 N674 Washington...

5 Minutes

Business

🔒 Wisconsin companies steadfast in W-2 hiring after governor vetoes gig worker bill

Elizabeth Morin October 13, 2025 0 Comment

As gig workers continue to take up a larger share of the local and national workforce, companies are increasingly tasked with navigating a changing benefits landscape. Wisconsin is currently home to more...

5 Minutes

Business

🔒 MMAC strategic plan sets 3% population growth target, aims for bias toward action

Elizabeth Morin October 9, 2025 0 Comment

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce is setting targets for increasing incomes, population, employment and investment along with reducing racial gaps in economic prosperity as part of a five-year strategic plan unveiled at its...

1 Minute

Finance

Country music star Luke Combs to play Lambeau Field in May

Elizabeth Morin October 9, 2025 0 Comment

Country music star Luke Combs will perform at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on Saturday, May 16, the Green Bay Packers announced today. The concert will be part of Combs’ My Kinda Saturday Night...

4 Minutes

Business

🔒 Evans Transportation grows dramatically by acting ‘more like a tech company’

Elizabeth Morin October 8, 2025 0 Comment

After 40 years in business, Evans Transportation could have settled into the role of a legacy logistics provider. Instead, it’s behaving more like a restless startup. Over the past decade, the Delafield-based company’s revenue...

4 Minutes

Finance

Viewpoints: Caledonia’s Microsoft rejection – a cautionary tale in economic self-sabotage

Elizabeth Morin October 8, 2025 0 Comment

Christopher Carter When Microsoft announced it was abandoning plans for a data center in Caledonia, citing “community feedback,” many opponents celebrated what they saw as a victory for local interests. But let’s be honest...

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Finance

🔒 Aldermen press DCD to reopen bidding for Marcus Performing Arts Center parking structure site, but delay vote

Elizabeth Morin October 7, 2025 0 Comment

Members of the Milwaukee Common Council’s Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development (ZND) Committee pressed the Department of City Development (DCD) on Tuesday to consider reopening the bidding process for a high-profile downtown development site, as...