{"id":6292,"date":"2023-10-11T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:56:13","slug":"top-4-finalists-announced-in-coolest-thing-made-in-wisconsin-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6292","title":{"rendered":"Top 4 Finalists Announced in Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/top-4-finalists-announced-in-coolest-thing-made-in-wisconsin-contest\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/top-4-finalists-announced-in-coolest-thing-made-in-wisconsin-contest\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC) and Johnson Financial Group announced on Wednesday the Top 4 products moving on in the eighth annual Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin contest. The four products each won two head-to-head matchups in a bracket style tournament known as Manufacturing Madness.<\/p>\n<p>Over one million votes have been cast in the competition over the last eight years, highlighting Wisconsin\u2019s diverse manufacturing industry, which contributes roughly $70 billion to the state\u2019s economy each year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, over 100 products were nominated for the competition. Following a popular vote round and the Manufacturing Madness bracket style rounds, Wisconsinites have narrowed the field down to the Top 4.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists were announced via a livestream broadcast on Facebook, YouTube, and www.madeinwis.com. The announcement show can be viewed by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XuSTXQNcwFM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2023 Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin Finalists:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">#1 Seed: Plexus Corp. \u2013 <em>Neenah<\/em>: <strong>Bevi Bottleless Water Dispenser<\/strong><br \/>\n#2 Seed: Nueske\u2019s Applewood Smoked Meats \u2013 <em>Wittenberg:<\/em> <strong>Applewood Smoked Bacon<\/strong><br \/>\n#3 Seed: AriensCo \u2013 <em>Brillion:<\/em> <strong>Ariens\u00ae 90th Anniversary Limited Edition Sno-Thro<\/strong><br \/>\n#12 Seed: Thorogood\u2013 <em>Merrill<\/em>: <strong>American Heritage 6\u201d Tobacco Safety Toe Work Boot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The final round of voting to determine the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin begins on Thursday, Oct. 12 at 8:00am. Individuals can vote once per day, per device until 12:00pm on Oct. 19. The winner will be crowned at WMC\u2019s Business Day in Madison that same day.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit www.madeinwis.com.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-72396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Coolest_2023_Final-Bracket_Top-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/top-4-finalists-announced-in-coolest-thing-made-in-wisconsin-contest\/\">Top 4 Finalists Announced in Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin Contest<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/top-4-finalists-announced-in-coolest-thing-made-in-wisconsin-contest\/ MADISON \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC) and Johnson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}