Capital Region Business Journal Clips

Capital Region Business Journal Clips

Customer Service, Creature Comforts Replacing Stodgy, Traditional Banks-
Your Dad’s Bank Didn’t Have Coffee, TV, Internet Service

It's not your father's bank.
Chances are, it's not even like the bank where you do business today.
Gone are the four-deep teller lines, intimidating atmosphere and hushed silences, swept away by a new trend in banking where hospitality is the currency of choice and customers are welcomed like family.
(CRBJ AUG 2007)
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Company’s Technology Replaces Cow’s Passion When Breeding Cattle

The birds and the bees are passe, at least for bovines.
More than two-thirds of dairy cows in the United States are bred by artificial insemination, superseding passion-on-the-hoof as a means of herd improvement and propagation.
(CRBJ OCT 2007)
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Prescription for Success- Combined Buying Power, Customer Service Help Local Drugstores Battle ‘Big Box’ Chains

Shrinking profit margins and the proliferation of "big box" pharmacies make community drugstores seem as quaint as soda fountains, but DeForest-based MD Group is writing a new prescription for success.
(CRBJ NOV 2007)
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Generations Meshed (Cover story)
It was a far cry from a cubicle in corporate America.
Fresh out of college and armed with a laptop, cell phone and pina colada, Nishant Bagadia reclined on a Puerto Rican beach as he worked towards a six-figure company sales record.
(CRBJ cover story DEC 2007)
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Defend their data (Cover story)
With one futuristic swipe of a finger, you can check out a new realm of data security along with a cartful of groceries at your local Cub Foods. (CRBJ cover story JAN 2008)
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Strike First- Make plans before disaster hits (Cover story)
When Ron Fruit pulled the main circuit breaker and silenced WRCO Radio, it was one of the lowest moments in his broadcasting career with the station. Foresight and contingency planning helped ensure that it wasn’t his last. (CRBJ cover story FEB 2008)
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OSHA reaches out with new education center
Capital Region businesses will have a new venue for occupational health and safety training beginning this summer due to a partnership between UW-Whitewater and Indiana University at Bloomington.
(CRBJ MAR 2008)
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Prayer & Profit (Cover story)
Edward and Carol Knapton are growing more than flowers in their Cottage Grove greenhouses- they’re also sowing seeds of faith.
(CRBJ cover story APR 2008)
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Weather the Storm (Cover story)
When slowing economic winds threaten to becalm your business, is it better to stay the course, lighten the load or jump ship?
(CRBJ cover story MAY 2008)
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High Impact- Bright ideas from UW Researchers (Cover story)
It takes Mother Nature millions of years, but an hour is all Eric Apfelbach needs. (CRBJ cover story JULY 2008)
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Finding their Way- Capital Region businesses using a wide array of techniques during slowdown (Cover story)
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the leaner economy is spawning an array of creative solutions as businesses cope with the trifecta of rising costs, tighter margins and wary consumers caught in the economic crunch.
(CRBJ cover story SEPTEMBER 2008)
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Small Gestures Go a Long Way- Now is not the time to skimp on employee appreciation, but it doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg (Cover story)
The fringe benefits were sweet, but the affirmation was even sweeter.
(CRBJ cover story JANUARY 2009)
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It Can Pay to Join the Club- Capital Region entrepreneurs and investors find help, advice and support (Cover story)
He calls himself an “outlier”, an anomaly of free enterprise who revels in the risk of entrepreneurship and likes to make his mistakes early on just to get them out of the way.
(CRBJ cover story APRIL 2009)
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Economy Squeezes Some Intern Programs- As Capital Region companies tighten their belts, many college internship programs are being eliminated or reduced (Cover story)
The pipeline is still flowing but the recession is tightening the screws on internships, a popular conduit conveying young professionals from college to career.
(CRBJ cover story JUNE 2009)
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Women’s Networking Group doing ‘Phenomenal’ Things

The response to one of Madison’s newest networking groups for women has been phenomenal.

Phenomenal Women, cofounded by Amy Hottman and Justine Alexander in July 2007, caters to female professionals, with meetings twice a month and a focus on building relationships within the group and greater Madison community.

(CRBJ JULY 2009)

The Mission of Trade Missions: Area Businesses find that trips to China and Japan have helped them to expand overseas
As Gene Anguil was climbing the Great Wall of China in 2007, he realized that the opportunity for business growth was literally breathtaking.
(CRBJ cover story OCTOBER 2009)
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Competing in a Global Market (Cover story)
Don’t tell Keith Peterson that Wisconsin manufacturers can’t compete in the global market.
(CRBJ cover story February 2009)
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