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MILWAUKEE — Kohl's Corp. shareholders narrowly approved a proposal requiring that the retailer's chairman be an independent director.

MILWAUKEE — Kohl's Corp. chairman and chief executive officer Kevin Mansell told shareholders at the retailer's annual meeting here that the company \"fell short\" of objectives in 2011, but emphasized high rankings from shopper surveys and gains in Internet sales.

Despite an impassioned appeal to Target Corp. shareholders, activist investor William Ackman lost his proxy fight Thursday for five seats on the retailer's board. Ackman had waged a two-month campaign in which he criticized the board's stewardship publicly and in Securities and Exchange Commission documents.

Companies that have been successful in finding funding tend to be knowledge-based and high-growth in sectors such as medical devices, information technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical technology, he adds. Making airplane engines Engineered Propulsion Systems Inc. in New Richmond is on a path to do an uncommon thing: establish a manufacturing plant that makes a product in the U.S. In fact, potential investors are so surprised to hear about a new company that will produce airplane engines in Wisconsin that convincing them of the plan's soundness is one of the biggest challenges for EPS, says co-founder Steven Weinzierl. Matching angel funds Paul Mayer, a former Fiskars executive who now is chief financial officer for EPS, helped the founders secure a $600,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce.

U.S. ranks third Pradeep Rohatgi, distinguished professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, says labor costs overseas aren't the only place where outsourcers save money. The Great Lakes region dominates the country in the number of metal castings factories because the area is rich with silica sand, which is used to produce molds that shape the steel castings. Food safety standards that demand well-made castings for machines that come in contact with food give Waukesha Foundry an edge over countries with less-stringent manufacturing standards.

The larger the organization, the more likely it was to have a plan, according to the study, which was authored by Reghan Cloudman, a public affairs official with the U.S. Forest Service and Kirk Hallahan, a professor at CSU's journalism department, and published in 2006 by Elsevier Inc. A 2006 survey of members of the International Association of Business Communicators by Robert Holland, a public relations professional in Richmond, Va. and Katrina Gill, president of Gill Research in Chicago, found that a third of the 600 respondents had no formal crisis communications plan in place. [...]The protestors came into the bank and shouted.

The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, a federal law known as E-Sign, took effect in 2000. The E-Sign law contains several protections for consumers, including requirements that businesses get a consumer's affirmative consent to receive information in electronic form, and that they must offer information on doing the transaction in a non-electronic form.

[...]most businesses can benefit in some way from additional dialogue with their customers, prospects and other audiences.\" \"A blog, assuming it is consistently updated with high-quality content, can help establish their authority and leadership in their category while also improving search engine optimization and building website traffic.\" Be careful what you post For example, Francesca's Holdings Corp., a specialty retail chain based in Houston, fired its chief financial officer in May after he was found improperly communicating company information through social media.

Business loans drive earnings Business loans are the main driver of earnings for FNB, representing about 60 percent of the bank's portfolio. Because of FNB's size, it limits loans to a single customer to about $6 million. Poels, of WBA, says the worst of the banking crisis is past. Since 2009, Wisconsin lost six banks and three credit unions due to insolvency.

The tenants in the Potawatomi Center will include businesses who will operate their own data centers as well as other tenants who will offer information technology services to small businesses, according to Dan McGrath, chief executive officer of New Age Data Solutions, a Chicago firm that will operate the center for the Potawatomi. [...]development planned Paragon Development of Oconomowoc announced plans last year for a similar 50,000-square-foot facility to be built in Milwaukee.