ANN ARBOR - If your company wants to reach a rapidly expanding market segment with products and services businesses want and need, you should check out the adult-use and legal cannabis industry in Michigan. Last year, some $1.8 billion in sales were reported. State officials predict sales in 2022 could rise to $2.8 billion or
WASHINGTON DC - The United Nations’ climate change panel is calling for a “substantial reduction” in the global use of fossil fuels in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Warning there is limited time to act, the latest report from the panel says that by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions need to be
ANN ARBOR - Simon Whitelocke, ITC Michigan president, returns to talk about how electricity transmission company is energizing Michigan's economy. Mr. Whitelocke continues his conversation from earlier reports about how electric infrastructure impacts economic growth. This video interview focuses on how in 2021 Michigan added 396 new franchise businesses and expects to add another 139
BOULDER, Co. —According to FlexJobs’ Work Insight 2022 Survey* with more than 1,200 people currently employed, remote work is considered the second most important element to compensation and benefit packages, ranked only behind salary. In fact, remote work has become such a priority among today’s workers that 57 percent say if they are not allowed
PHOENIX, Az. - They’re like solar panels, except instead of electricity, they produce water. Source Global’s hydropanels create water out of thin air and bring it where it’s most needed. CEO Cody Friesen invented the panels in 2014 at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, where he’s on the faculty. A year
LANSING — Local talent development and employment successes were among those celebrated by state leaders at the Michigan Works! Association Impact Awards this week. Local lawmakers and statewide talent development officials gathered virtually, and in-person, on Thursday, March 24 to recognize local resident Billy Truong, Homewatch Caregivers of Washtenaw, Washtenaw Community College, as well as
ROYAL OAK – Airfoil Group has a new CEO, Keith Donovan, who earlier this month replaced co-founder Lisa Vallee Smith who will remain with the technology-focused public relations agency based in Royal Oak as chairperson. In this video interview with Mike Brennan from MITechNews and Matt Roush from LTU he talks about the evolution of
TROY - New to Automation Alley's Integr8 in 2022, Michigan businesses with a manufacturing facility in the state and less than 500 employees are encouraged to participate in a pitch competition presented by Automation Alley in partnership with Pure Michigan Business Connect. Applicants must explain how a 3D industrial printer would solve a labor, capacity
DETROIT— DTE Energy, a clean energy leader in Michigan, announced a partnership with Lyft to incentivize drivers in its electric service territory who purchase or lease an electric vehicle for use on the Lyft network. Administered through DTE’s Charging Forward program, this partnership provides equitable access of EVs to all, while bringing cleaner energy to
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite a big jump in concern for inflation small business owners are feeling good about the health of their businesses and expectations for the future, leading to a new pandemic-era high score of 64.1 for the MetLife and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index. About three in five (61 percent) small
