Eric Decker
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Switching gears
Over the past decade, Dorner Manufacturing Corp.'s traditional customers, such as American metal manufacturers and fabricators, increasingly were closing up their shops or shifting...
Don’t play shell game with Social Security
The Social Security reforms advocated by the Bush regime amount to a gigantic shell game. The program was designed to supplement people's income when...
Cost cutters
How can our company cut its soaring health care insurance costs without passing too much of a burden onto our employees? That corporate...
Survivor
Michael DeBakker's story is one of tragedy, perseverance, survival and rebirth. And that just covers the past 12 years. DeBakker and his first...
Negotiations: Know the other party’s chain of command
First of two parts Question: In a recent complex sale, I was negotiating with the vice president who told me he was the...
Rooftops and retail
The Ozaukee County commercial real estate market will expand its residential and retail bases significantly in 2005. In addition to high-profile commercial development...
Building a new Racine
The City of Racine is redeveloping several of its industrial sites that were left vacant when long-standing manufacturing businesses shut their doors in recent...
A new kind of business park
Tom Hignite, president of Miracle Homes Inc., wants to build a new kind of business park in Germantown. If village officials approve his...
Room to grow
The spring thaws will find several new tenants filling up space in the industrial parks of Washington County. Helsan Development Co. LLC has...
Health care consumerism gets its 1st test
Amid the backdrop of several new hospital construction projects, the notion of consumer-driven health care may get its first test in southeastern Wisconsin this...
Prepare for the M&A wave
In 2004, the Standard & Poor's 500 index finally rose to a level not seen since the month preceding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
Take action now to avoid economic pain later
It seems like just a short time ago, we were bemoaning outsourcing, and now, manufacturing seems to be booming. The weakened dollar and improving...