About Centergy
Centergy is committed to advancing prosperity and vibrancy in the five-county region of Central Wisconsin: Adams, Lincoln, Marathon, Portage, and Wood Counties.
Centergy envisions itself as the Collective Voice for advancing prosperity and vibrancy in the region. The organization’s mission is to serve as the engine for regional growth and economic development through collaboration with local partners. Centergy’s decision-making, actions, and provision of services are guided by its core principles of Vision Forward, Accountability, Fiscal Responsibility, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI).
To drive the mission, Centergy has identified four pillars of focus: Talent Growth, Regional Advocacy, Business Development, and Partner Engagement. These pillars provide a strategic framework to lead economic development and prosperity in Central Wisconsin into the future. Centergy aims to collaborate with businesses and partners to retain and attract in-demand talent throughout the region.
The Centergy brand provides an effective way to leverage the collective economic power of the region’s five counties.
It allows us to unite the region’s efforts in talent attraction and development, regional brand development, business development, and promoting innovation and entrepreneurship within the business community.
We operate in partnership with a broad variety of organizations, institutions, and government entities throughout the Centergy Region. Among them are the region’s seven major chambers of commerce:
We collaborate with colleges, universities, and technical schools throughout the region.
We’re also allied with a long list of public economic development partners at the local level, as well as the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and the State of Wisconsin.
Centergy is proud of the region’s business resources and plays an important role in strengthening and growing the region’s economy, to ensure an even better quality of life for residents of the counties and communities we serve.
Our Investors
- Aspirus Health – TOP INVESTOR
- Associated Bank
- Boldt Company
- Church Mutual Insurance Company – TOP INVESTOR
- Delta Dental of Wisconsin – TOP INVESTOR
- Domtar – TOP INVESTOR
- Enbridge
- Gamber Johnson
- Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce
- Greenfire Management Services
- Heartland Farms
- Heart of Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
- J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
- Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- Merrill Area Chamber of Commerce
- Mid-State Technical College – TOP INVESTOR
- Miron Construction
- Northcentral Technical College – TOP INVESTOR
- Okray Farms
- Peoples State Bank
- Pfefferle Companies
- Portage County Business Council
- Ruder Ware – TOP INVESTOR
- TDS
- The Samuels Group
- Simplicity Credit Union – TOP INVESTOR
- Skyward – TOP INVESTOR
- University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point – TOP INVESTOR
- Wenzel’s Farm
- Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
- Wisconsin Public Service – TOP INVESTOR
Partner Organizations
- Adams Co Economic Development
- Greater Wausau Prosperity Partnership
- CREATE Portage County
- Hmong Chamber of Commerce
- MCDEVCO
- Mosinee Area Chamber of Commerce
- Stevens Point Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Wisconsin Rapids Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Visit Wausau
- WAUSOME
- Opportunity Development Center Inc.
- Hmong Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
- American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin
- Stratford Chamber of Commerce
- Small Business Development Center
- Central Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance (CWIMA)
- Mission Wisconsin
- Mainstreet Marshfield
- Visit Marshfield
- Adams County Chamber of Commerce & Tourism
- Wisconsin Chinese Chamber of Commerce
- Wisconsin Veteran Chamber of Commerce
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension
- Wisconsin United Coalition of MAA
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