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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 just beginning the community’s next stage of growth. 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 Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese and other related cheese products) and Richelieu Foods (formerly Willow Foods, a producer of deli salads, dips, bagel spreads and entrées). Smaller, specialty businesses such as Breuer Metal Craftsmen, produce wrought metal items, handcrafted for a wide variety of business, office and retail applications, including hand rails on custom stairways and metal decorations.

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), Finlay Industries, Inc. (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.

A brand new commercial enterprise, of enormous size, will be opening in the city’s newest corporate park on the far north side of Beaver Dam in autumn 2006. The new Wal-Mart Distribution Center will be the largest distribution facility in the state of Wisconsin. The center will have approximately one million square feet of floor space, ultimately employing about 900 people.