Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee is the largest city within the state of Wisconsin and 22nd-largest in the United States. The city is the county seat of Milwaukee County, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, and is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Chicago. As of the 2004 U.S. Census estimate, Milwaukee had a population of 583,624. The city is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area with a population of 1.7 million.

Milwaukee is known as "The City of Festivals" for its great number of ethnic and musical festivals, the largest of which is Summerfest. It has also been called "the nation's watering hole," having more bars per capita than any other large city in the country. Milwaukee residents are known as Milwaukeeans. Milwaukeeans often comment that Milwaukee feels like "a big small town."

1 The local economy
2 Recent Milwaukee business news
3 See also
4 External links

The local economy

Although most people associate Milwaukee with beer, today companies like Miller Brewing employ less than one percent of the city's workers. Milwaukee's reputation as a blue collar town is more accurate, however, with 22 percent of the workforce involved in manufacturing, second only to San Jose, California and far higher than the national average of 16.5%. Service and managerial jobs are the fastest growing segments of the Milwaukee economy, and healthcare makes up 27% of all service jobs in the city.

Milwaukee is headquarters to six Fortune 1000 manufacturers and six Fortune 1000 service companies. Among these are Briggs & Stratton, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Controls, Manpower Inc., Marshall & Ilsley, Northwestern Mutual, Rockwell Automation, Roundy's Supermarkets, Metavante, Kohl's, and Wisconsin Energy. The Milwaukee area ranked number five in the nation when measuring the number of Fortune 500 companies as a share of the population, just behind the number four Minneapolis-St. Paul region. Milwaukee also has a large number of financial service firms, particularly those specializing in mutual funds and transaction processing systems, and a disproportionate number of publishing and printing companies, including Quad/Graphics. Milwaukee is also the headquarters of the Koss Corporation and Master Lock.

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Recent Milwaukee business news

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Fit to a tea: Genteel beverage is carving out a niche in Madison: Tea time is starting in Madison. Although tea is the world's most commonly consumed beverage next to water, in Madison, like much of the rest of the United States, tea has been a distant also-ran in any ...
Metallica bends the Internet to its advantage: Who would have thought the band who famously fought Napster would be, eight years later, masters of the Internet? Its guitarist, for one, didn't. Back when Metallica was butting heads with Napster and becoming ...
Cleopatra (Cleo) Perry: Cleopatra 'Cleo' Perry, 93, formerly of Sheboygan, and a resident at Woodland Village at Rocky Knoll, passed away there on Wednesday morning, January 7, 2009.
Ethan Allen Opens New Design Center in Brookfield, Wisconsin: Ethan Allen announced the opening of a new 15,900 square foot Design Center at 425 North Moorland Road, in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Feingold Reintroducing E4 Initiative: Suspected Backyard Breeder Truck Falls Through Ice Feingold Reintroducing E4 Initiative U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is starting the new Congress by reintroducing his E4 initiative aimed at fueling job creation ...
Heinemann's Closes Final 3 Restaurants: A longtime Milwaukee restaurant chain has closed its last restaurants. Heinemann's shut down its Bayside, Brookfield and Milwaukee locations and the commissary ceased operations on Tuesday.
Sick Leave Ordinance Key Players Square Off In Debate: The key players in Milwaukee's sick leave debate square off, although both agree that employers must be ready for the ordinance to go into effect in a month.
What's new in shops and services: The Soccer Shoppe, which offers customers any kind of equipment needed to play the game, will be able to keep its doors open after being purchased by a new owner.