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IMPORTANT: As of July 1st, 2011, functions once performed by the Wisconsin Department of Commerce have been moved to other state agencies and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. The former Commerce web site will continue to exist for the next several months as resources are moved to new web site locations. We will make every attempt possible to direct our users to the new locations as web resources are moved.
MarketWatch Charts Milwaukee's Improved Business Climate Milwaukee has advanced two slots on MarketWatch's best fifty U.S. metros areas for business by moving from #18 in 2007 to #16 in 2008. Milwaukee outpaced such cities as St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Austin, Portland, Phoenix, Orlando and Los Angeles. MarketWatch, which describes itself as the "leading online financial-news publisher" is part of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network. In its December 2nd announcement, MarketWatch stated that "Milwaukee wasn't the fastest-growing city, but it moved the largest number of places in population growth, rising five places." According MarketWatch, "the rankings are purely result-oriented and are based on available data in eight categories from various government agencies and financial organizations, as well as two business publications: Fortune and Forbes" with no subjective criteria such as quality of life being factored into the ranking. Click here to read the full section from on "Where business gets done." -- Russ Britt, MarketWatch |
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