See's Candies to open at Mayfair
See's Candies has opened its Milwaukee-area store at Mayfair in Wauwatosa, the company said in a news release.
The San Francisco candy shop will officially celebrate its grand opening Feb. 3. The company has had holiday kiosks at area malls, including Mayfair, in the past, but this is its first permanent store.
The store is on the lower level of the mall near Macy's.
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LaPorte named Fox 6 news director
John LaPorte has been named vice president of news at Milwaukee Fox network affiliate WITI-TV (Channel 6).
LaPorte fills the position vacated by the departure of Jim Lemon, who left the station in December 2011 after serving as news director since 2005.
LaPorte has been news content manager at Channel 6 since September 2010. Among his previous positions were news director, executive producer and producer at WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) in Milwaukee.
“John has many years invested in the news business and the Milwaukee market and over the past several weeks I had the opportunity to see just how competitive and compassionate he is about this newsroom and his craft,” president and general manager Chuck Steinmetz said in announcing LaPorte’s appointment...
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Slideshow: Business Journal Book of Lists party
If you are a Milwaukee-area business executive, the place to be Thursday night was The Pfister Hotel.
More than 500 area business execs packed the ballroom at the downtown Milwaukee hotel to be part of The Business Journal's Book of Lists party.
It was quite the party to celebrate our release of our 2012 Book of Lists, which compiles the lists that run in our paper each week.
The theme of the party was The Business Journal Candy Factory. The room was filled with jars of candy and fun sponsor booths as guests mingled, networked and tried their hand at games, with fabulous prizes, including two tickets to an upcoming Milwaukee Bucks game against the Miami Heat...
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HUD Secretary Donovan talks about Master Lock and jobs in Milwaukee
Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, visited Milwaukee to talk housing, but spent much time discussing jobs.
Check out this video from his Thursday speech, where Donovan brings up Master Lock’s decision to move jobs back to Milwaukee, and how the move exhibits the spirit of President Barack Obama’s “American Promise” premise.
Obama mentioned Master Lock in his State of the Union speech. Donovan is followed in the video by Racine Mayor John Dickert discussing Racine’s use of HUD money to create jobs through home renovation...
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A.O. Smith sales climb; earnings flat
A.O. Smith Corp. reported Friday that fourth-quarter 2011 revenue rose 28.5 percent to $475.8 million, compared with $370.2 million for the same period in 2010, boosted in part by a recent acquisition.
Net income for the quarter was 32.1 million, compared with $32.2 million for the year-ago period. Earnings from continuing operations rose to $31.5 million, or 68 cents per share, from $20.5 million, or 44 cents per share, for the same period in 2010.
For the full year, net earnings jumped to $305...
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