Did you know that there are more than 100 businesses – large and small – in the Warrens area? Until we started making a list of local business owners to invite to join the Warrens Area Business Association, neither did we!

The Warrens Area Business Association invites anyone who is interested to attend our meetings. WABA meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 a.m. at various locations.

Upcoming meetings include:

Next meeting Scheduled for Tuesday October 2, 6:00 p.m.
at the Warrens Lion's Club Building in Warrens

Click to read meeting minutes here

After being inactive for several years, WABA was reorganized in August 2005. A sampling of the projects the group has undertaken so far includes:  

·        Publishing the Warrens Adventure Map & Guide featuring ads of participating businesses and a map pinpointing their locations.

·        Participating in a First Impressions exercise with Stone Lake in which WABA members will visit that community, while “secret shoppers” from Stone Lake will visit Warrens to note their impressions of our town.

·        Planning a Cranberry Blossom Tour Day for July 1 with tours of Wetherby Cranberry Company and the Wisconsin Cranberry Discovery Center with participating WABA members holding open houses at their businesses.

·        Hosting a customer service-training workshop for business owners and their front-line employees, as well as a leadership-style assessment exercise.

·        WABA also distributes a weekly e-newsletter informing members of happenings in the community.

Becoming a member of WABA affords you the opportunity to meet and network with other area business owners, plan promotion efforts designed to draw more business to Warrens, opportunities to jointly advertise with other WABA members at reduced rates, and much more.

WABA is open to anyone interested in becoming a member. The membership fee is $10 per year for businesses and $5 per year for individuals. For more information, contact Secretary Norm Anderson at (608) 378-5114.