Tag: Johnson Controls

For those of you not following another dirty water scandal in northeast Wisconsin, Tyco Fire Products, (a division of Johnson Controls International of Glendale WI) determined that harmful chemicals that they manufacture have leeched from their site into neighboring wells. And after a lot of negative publicity and pressure from…

Breaking news from JSOnline says Johnson Controls is about to merge with Ireland’s Tyco International. Tyco is a fire protection and security company. Although the article says that local miscreant and current CEO of Johnson Controls, Alex Molinaroli, will run the new combined company, will JCI’s legal headquarters end up…

Apparently Johnson Controls didn’t get Gov. Scott Walker’s memo that Wisconsin is “Open for Business,” as the company has announced it is eliminating jobs for the second time in recent months. Johnson Controls will eliminate at least 100 corporate finance and accounting jobs at its Milwaukee Business Center in Glendale,…

In a follow up article in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business pages…it seems that the expectation outside of Johnson Controls…is that CEO Molinaroli should lose his job for his incredibly poor judgment in his ‘relationship’ with a convicted Ponzi scheme con artist: “There is no such thing as strictly personal…

Well he isn’t creating any jobs with it this time? I usually don’t bother writing about an individual business but this just smells too bad…and it’s not the CEO’s first little scandal (affair that cost him $1 million a year in salary). If you’ve been following the money of Johnson…

This morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel features an opinion piece by Alex Molinaroli, the chairman of Johnson Controls, Todd Teske, chairman of Briggs & Stratton Corp, and Tim Sullivan, former CEO of Bucyrus International. They were touting the proposed Bucks arena as an important asset for Milwaukee and Milwaukee regional firms…