BATTLE CREEK - Battle Creek Unlimited on Monday unveiled its strategy for redeveloping downtown Battle Creek - lead by investments in food science, technology and education, and featuring a six-story "Green" office building that will be leased by Kellogg Company. BCU officials estimate that its downtown revitalization plan could require more than $86 million in
AUBURN HILLS - Gibbs Technologies will discuss job openings at its new Oakland County headquarters and describe details of its breakthrough high-speed amphibious-vehicle technology at a Society of Automotive Engineers dinner meeting Dec. 1 at the San Marino Club in Troy. Dennis Bemis, the company�??s vice president of human resources, said Gibbs will have a
WASHINGTON D.C. - Starshowz Corporation has been selected for the 2008 Best of Auburn Hills Award in the Entertainment Bureaus category by the U.S. Local Business Association. The USLBA Best of Local Business Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing
BIRMINGHAM - In a spot survey last week of 270 supplier executives representing 185 companies, 76 percent said they support a federal government bailout of General Motors. Without it, they said they'd have to downsize or close, resulting in over 275,000 people losing jobs at their companies. While the survey focused on GM, 71 percent
LANSING - The domestic auto industry that the United States has known for decades, dominated by three major Detroit manufacturers, is no more, economic analysts said on Tuesday as a combination of continued sales collapse and the uncertainty of federal assistance means that even under the best circumstances "radical restructuring" of the companies will be
ANN ARBOR - Auto industry rescue plan or not, Michigan's economy will continue to be stuck in reverse until 2010, say University of Michigan economists. "The confluence of recession in the U.S. economy and the tenuous position of the domestic nameplate automakers is a troublesome gateway to the year ahead," said U-M's George Fulton. "Regardless
ANN ARBOR - Deadlines to enter two additional business-plan competitions hosted by groups other than Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest loom on Nov. 21, says GLEQ Executive Director Diane Durance. Both the Society of Automotive Engineers and the University of Michigan are hosting contests in December. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
BIRMINGHAM - What's in a name? Well a million dollars for a Southeast Michigan Internet entrepreneur who paid seven figures to buy the domain name Vibrators.Com. Tom Nardone, founder of ShopInPrivate.Com, could barely afford the purchase, especially in these tough economic times. But there is something special in the combination of PriveCo's business strength and
ANN ARBOR - Economists at the University of Michigan confirmed Thursday what many Americans already believe - that the nation is in the throes of a bad recession, a recession that will not bottom out until mid 2009, and will continue to be felt into 2010. "The decline in employment that began at the turn
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit is returning to Hockeytown again this year to celebrate the Red Wings' Stanley Cup championship and kick off the holiday season in style with a Holiday party not to be missed. On December 3, from 6-9 pm there also will be a personal appearance and book signing by