GREENVILLE - United Solar Ovonic, which makes solar laminate products in a town that lost 10,000 jobs when Electrolux moved an appliance factory to Mexico, started hiring the first of 400 new employees on Monday, very good economic news for this hard pressed mid Michigan town. The company, based in Auburn Hills, recently began planning
DETROIT - A net 9 percent of chief information officers in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology professionals in the third quarter of 2008, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. Thirteen percent of executives surveyed plan to add staff during the quarter and 4 percent
MACKINAC ISLAND - With the Detroit Auto Dealers threatening to pull the North American International Auto Show from Detroit if Cobo Hall is not expanded soon, Southeast Michigan leaders agreed Friday to ad urgency to their deliberations. But they didn�??t come up with a framework to accomplish the task. Though the four leaders agreed the
MACKINAC ISLAND - Several of the proposals Governor Jennifer Granholm has made in the past three years have bogged down in the Legislature, so Friday she asked members of the Detroit Regional Chamber to help her get those issues moving. In one case she offered a direct payback for that help. Though she did not
DETROIT - Dan Mulhern, First Gentleman for the State of Michigan, will honor finalists and winners of the Midwest Collaboration and Corporate Commitment To Michigan awards June 4 at the Midwest Technology Leaders cocktail reception at the Detroit MGM Grand Hotel. The Midwest Collaboration Award honors partnerships between Midwest companies and local individuals or groups
MACKINAC ISLAND - Given that most of the routes through North America flow through the Detroit Metro region, the state needs to fill any holes in those routes to attract shipping and logistics companies, Detroit Regional Chamber President Richard Blouse said on Mackinac Island on Thursday. Toward that end, Blouse announced the launch of TransLinkeD,
MACKINAC ISLAND - Gov. Jennifer Granholm will unveil a plan Friday to cut Department of Corrections spending and move that money to other budget priorities. She is seeking to generate business support for the plan at the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference by making the surcharge on the Michigan Business Tax one of the
WARREN - Bill Kozyra was named chairman and CEO of TI Automotive on Thursday, following the planned retirement of Bill Laule. Kozyra comes to TI Automotive with more than 30 years of automotive experience, including leadership positions at Budd Company, Allied Signal, Bosch, ITT Automotive and Continental AG. Kozyra most recently was president and CEO
ANN ARBOR - More than $60,000 in cash will be awarded to Michigan's top technology start ups on June 12 when Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest hosts its Grand Prize Award ceremony at the James B. Henry Center at Michigan State University. Co sponsors include Automation Alley, NextEnergy, and Southwest Michigan First. GLEQ First Place teams
FLINT - AT&T has announced an expansion of its third-generation mobile broadband wireless network across Genesee County, including greater Flint, Montrose, Clio, Burton, Grand Blanc and Linden. With the addition of 3G technology to 34 cell sites enhancing this new service along I-75, I-475, I-69, US-23, Miller Road, Pierson Road, Saginaw Street and strengthened in