Kimberly Hall struggled for months with finding a brick-and-mortar location for her bakery business, but then a wonderful opportunity found her! Signature Sweets was already in business for about a year when an existing cupcake shop owner contacted Kimberly with a chance to buy physical space as well as assets.
Sara Lawton found family, community and her beloved pet were all a big help in starting her popcorn business.
As a teenager, Joe Covelli spent a few summers washing his neighbor’s airplane so he could be treated to flights over southeastern Wisconsin. As the years passed, he never lost interest in flying.
Erin Vranas is getting natural yogurt chips into the hands of health-conscious consumers nationwide.
Anne and Butch Fintelmann bought Pine Grove
Lanes in March 2020, from the couple who had been
running it for 50 years. They knew they wanted to
keep the well-established tradition of the bowling
alley, but they also wanted to make some updates.
Zachary Clark and Ian Wenger discovered a love for brewing beer when they started their operation in the basement of their college home, so they turned it into a career. In their second year of brewing, they came to the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UW-Oshkosh for assistance in growing Fifth Ward Brewing.
Business owners, heads of organizations and community leaders do not typically anticipate the need to close down their work rapidly.
In 1999, Reynolds Packaging began in a garage on Main Street in Green Bay. When delivery trucks began blocking the neighbors’ driveways, the owners knew it was time to expand. In 2004, the company relocated to a 2000 square-foot building in order to continue producing their packaging products at high speeds. Then in 2019, co-owners Lisa and Kelly Reynolds expanded again, this time purchasing and renovating a facility located in Ashwaubenon.
In 2012, Adventure Games was founded by Teddy Alecos.
When Shawn Bolduc moved to Madison four years ago to begin his current job as an arts administrator for Memorial Union, he brought his passion for baking along with him.