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Beaver Dam Business and Industry

Through a proactive program of planned investment, and a progressive city government, the local economy has been expanding in recent years and is in the middle of a growth phase.

The next decade will be an exciting time of opportunity for business and development in Beaver Dam.

Existing mainstays of commerce in the city include Apache Stainless Equipment (a manufacturer of stainless steel equipment for the food industry), Burgess-Norton Manufacturing (formerly Advance Products, a producer of metal parts through a powdered metal stamping process), Kraft Foods (producers of one half of the Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese made in America and producer of other related cheese products) and Richelieu Foods (formerly Willow Foods, a producer of deli salads, dips, bagel spreads and entrees).

The community is also home to smaller, specialty manufacturing businesses such as Breuer Metal Craftsmen, a producer of metal wrought items, hand crafted for a wide variety of business, office and retail applications, including hand rails on custom stairways and metal decorations. Venture Manufacturing Group, a state-of-the-art metal fabricator, serves the retail, material handling, construction, agricultural and military (COCC Registered) sectors.

Beginning several decades ago with the combined efforts of the Beaver Dam Industrial Development Corporation, the Beaver Dam Chamber of Commerce and local government, city leaders began examining the future of the city and its manufacturing base. In recent years, the city of Beaver Dam has contracted with the Beaver Dam Area Development Corporation (BDADC) to take the community to its next phase of growth.

The BDADC, a local non-profit development corporation, works with city government, the chamber of commerce, and other local, county and state organizations to invite businesses to expand, relocate, or add additional locations of their businesses in Beaver Dam.

The development of multi-phase corporate parks, on land annexed by the city and developed through tax incremental financing districts, has become part of the master plan for future development.

The Beaver Dam Business Park is located just east of U.S. Highway 151 between Industrial Drive and County Highway B. Several significant anchor business developments have already been completed in the park, including Northwoods Paper Converting (converting industrial paper rolls to flat sheets of paper cut to order), Vintage Parts (warehouser/distributor of slow moving or inactive parts for major automotive and other manufacturers), the Beaver Dam offices of MSA Professional Services (consulting, planning and engineering services for municipalities and the private sector), and a variety of office and service businesses.

In autumn 2006, the community welcomed a Wal-Mart Distribution Center on the city’s far north side. The DC is the largest distribution facility of its kind in the state of Wisconsin. The center has approximately one million square feet of floor space, anticipating having about 900 employees by the end of the decade.