Category: Expansions/Relocations
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Pivotal Health expanding to Milwaukee after $1.3M raise
A new health care provider that will let patients schedule and pay through a mobile app and then have a licensed clinician show up at their door to provide in-home urgent or primary care is coming to the Milwaukee area.
Pivotal Health, founded in Middleton last year, will begin seeing Milwaukee-area patients on Dec. 1, the company’s co-founder and CEO Sal Braico said.
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Portillo’s Set to Open in West Madison in November
Oak Brook, Ill. – Fast-casual chain Portillo’s is excited to announce that it will host the grand opening for its new restaurant, located at 7230 West Towne Way in Madison, Wisc., on November 30, 2021. The restaurant is the second location in the Madison area. It officially opens to the public at 10:30am.
Portillo’s has always been known for its fast and efficient drive-thru. To cater to the increase in takeout and delivery business, the new restaurant will feature Portillo’s first-ever three-lane drive-thru, with the third lane dedicated to delivery drivers and pickup for online orders.
Portillo’s is now hiring in anticipation of the opening. On average, Portillo’s hires approximately 150 people for new restaurants. The restaurant is looking to fill a variety of hourly and shift leader positions. Applicants can apply online; the brand is also conducting walk-in interviews on site. Details can be found at portillos.com/careers.
Once open, guests can expect to enjoy Portillo’s signature menu items like Chicago-Style Hot Dogs, Famous Italian Beef Sandwiches, Char-Grilled Burgers and Portillo’s Famous Chocolate Cake. The 7,800-square-foot restaurant features seating for more than 180 guests inside as well as a seasonal outdoor patio. The interior features a diner theme, drawing inspiration from the 1950s and 1960s.
To help launch the new restaurant, Portillo’s designed a limited-edition t-shirt for this location. Guests are invited to sign up for Portillo’s Birthday Club to receive one of these shirts on opening day, while supplies last. Fans who sign up also receive a slice of Portillo’s homemade chocolate cake on their birthday.
Fans are invited to register for a chance to attend a sneak peek training meal prior to opening and receive updates on the Portillo’s Westfield location by signing up at portillos.com/west-madison.
For more information on this restaurant and others, please visit portillos.com or follow Portillo’s on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
ABOUT PORTILLO’S HOT DOGS
In 1963, Dick Portillo invested $1,100 into a small trailer to open the first Portillo’s hot dog stand in Villa Park, IL, which he called “The Dog House.” Years later, Portillo’s has grown to include restaurants in more than 60 locations across several states. Portillo’s is best known for its Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, char-grilled burgers, fresh salads and famous chocolate cake. Portillo’s ships food to all 50 states via Portillos.com. Portillo’s Home Kitchen is the company’s fast-growing catering business.
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Naviant, Inc. Acquires Business Process Automation Provider in Roseville, CA
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Naviant, Inc. Acquires Business Process Automation Provider in Roseville, CA
ROSEVILLE, Cali.; VERONA, Wis.; MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio; OREM, Utah; SYRACUSE, New York — October 1, 2021 —Naviant, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent automation solutions by Hyland, Kryon Systems, and ABBYY, announced today that it signed an agreement to acquire NEKO Industries. NEKO is a business process automation provider based in Roseville, CA, and a licensed reseller of OnBase by Hyland.
As a top Hyland partner, Naviant has been named an OnBase Platinum and Diamond Support partner consistently year after year with a thriving and happy client base. “We are committed to providing the same outstanding support and delivery of services our clients have grown to expect, and we look forward to personally welcoming NEKO Industries clients and staff into the Naviant community,” said Michael Carr, President & CEO, at Naviant.
“Hyland is in full support of this acquisition, and we see Naviant as an exemplary model of a partner that provides excellent delivery and support to their clients. Recently, Naviant was honored by Hyland as the Top Customer Growth Partner of the Year and #1 Partner in Marketing Excellence,” said Eric Miller, Assistant Vice President of channel sales at Hyland.
John Edmondson, Partner at NEKO Industries, said, “Our core values align well with Naviant’s, and I am excited about the synergies this acquisition will provide for our clients. As a leading partner in the west for intelligent automation solutions, Naviant will bring extended capabilities in intelligent capture and robotic process automation (RPA) technology.”
Michael Carr added, “We are extremely pleased to bring NEKO’s exceptional client base and talent into the Naviant family. As we continue to expand our US footprint west spanning all time zones, this acquisition allows us to better support and deliver solutions to our clients.”
About Naviant
Business processes and solutions that empower better and faster decisions are what we do best. As a nationally recognized intelligent automation solutions integrator and business process consulting organization with over 30 years of experience headquartered in Verona WI, our clients do more with less by streamlining processes and gaining visibility into the information they need to make better decisions. As a long-standing key partner of Hyland, Naviant helps organizations operate more efficiently using Hyland’s OnBase enterprise information platform, Brainware intelligent capture platform, the Hyland Cloud, and Hyland RPA, as well as the ABBYY intelligent capture and Kryon RPA platforms. Naviant’s “process-first” approach brings focus to the importance of process improvement prior to implementing best-in-class enterprise content management (ECM) solutions and technology. Naviant is a top-tier partner for Hyland’s OnBase, an enterprise information platform for managing content, processes, and cases, that combines ECM, case management, business process management (BPM), records management, compliance, and capture functionality on a single platform. In addition, Naviant also partners with Kryon Systems for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology to enable organizations to drive business agility and efficiency by offloading repetitive high-volume work to a digital workforce (aka software robots). To learn more about Naviant, visit Naviant.com. Process focus. Excellence.
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M3 Insurance Acquires Miller Services, Inc. in Rockford
M3 Insurance (M3) announces the acquisition of Miller Services, Inc. dba 2HB Human Resources Solutions Group, a 5-year-old Rockford, IL-based company providing customized human resource and employee benefits solutions to businesses and public entities. Effective September 24, 2021, Laurie S. Miller, president of Miller Services Inc., will serve as M3’s Director of Employee Benefits – Rockford Market. The addition of Laurie and her team serves to boost M3’s existing presence and commitment to the Rockford and northern Illinois region.
Laurie brings a wealth of experience, industry knowledge, and expertise to M3 with a strong focus on manufacturing, banking and public entities. In June 2021, she was recognized as one of “Twenty People You Should Know” by the Rockford Chamber of Commerce. In 2018, she was the Rockford Chamber of Commerce’s Woman Business Owner of the Year. She was awarded the national Risk & Insurance Power Broker designation six times, recognizing her as someone who stands out among their peers for exceptional client work and innovation.
M3 opened its Rockford office in 2019, establishing a team of professionals armed with resources to help clients with property & casualty, employee benefits, financial services, personal lines, and more.
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Vogel Bros. Building Co./SARA Investment Real Estate: Octopi October Expansion
WAUNAKEE, WIS. – Octopi Is Expanding. A groundbreaking celebration will occur on Friday October 1, 2021 at 12:00 noon CDT to celebrate the beginning of construction on a new 200,000 square foot (sf) facility for Octopi Brewing at 1130 Uniek Drive, Waunakee.
The new facility, developed by SARA Investment Real Estate of Madison, will be leased to Octopi Brewing expanding operations from their main building across the street. The new building, to be completed in the summer of 2022, will house a variety packaging line, shipping, and receiving operations for Octopi. The building features 14 loading docks, a 14,000 sf cooler, a 5,000 sf freezer, and 113,000 sf of open warehouse space. The building has been designed by Aro Eberle Architects and Vogel Bros. Building Co is Construction Manager.